The digamma function is the logarithmic derivativeLogarithmically differentiating the Weierstrass product gives
Weierstrass product for the reciprocal gamma function by
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The reciprocal gamma function has the entire-product representation
This is a particular application of the Weierstrass factorization theorem.
The Gamma function obeys the recurrence relationInitially, for , integration by parts in the Gamma integral gives the short proofThe boundary term vanishes at zero because , and at infinity because of exponential decay. Together with , the Gamma function recurrence immediately gives for every nonnegative integer .[ref]
Read backwards, the Gamma function recurrence defineswhere is a positive integer. These overlapping formulas agree by the Gamma function recurrence, giving the meromorphic continuation. Since , they give a simple pole at zero and then at every negative integer; Gamma function residue at a nonpositive integer records the residues. The recurrence relation therefore holds throughout the continuation as an identity of meromorphic functions.
The discriminant square class detects whether the transitive cubic Galois group lies in the alternating group.
The polynomial is irreducible over and has discriminant , so its splitting field has Galois group . Its unique quadratic subfield is the fixed field of , namely .
Suppose a group of field automorphisms acts transitively on elements , and each has a unique th root in a stable extension. If every automorphism extends, it sends to the unique root above its image of , so the extended group acts transitively on the .
Subfields of the splitting field of x to the fourth minus seven by
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Put and . The dihedral group acts byThe ten subgroups and their fixed fields areThe normal subgroups are , , the two displayed Klein four-groups, , and .
Every subgroup of an abelian group is normal. Hence every intermediate field of a finite abelian Galois extension is itself Galois over the base field.
For a finite Galois extension with group , an intermediate extension is normal exactly when its corresponding subgroup is a normal subgroup of .
The disk--halo degeneracy is the ability of different stellar mass-to-light ratios and dark-halo profiles to reproduce nearly the same total galaxy rotation curve.
A singular isothermal sphere with one-dimensional velocity dispersion has , enclosed mass , and constant circular speed .
Stellar dynamics studies the collective gravitational motion of stars in galaxies and star clusters.
The tidal radius bounds material that remains gravitationally attached to a satellite in the differential gravitational field of its host.
A European contingent claim pays a specified function of market variables at one fixed maturity. Under an equivalent martingale measure, an attainable claim is priced by the discounted conditional expectation of its payoff.
A European put option gives its holder the right, without an obligation, to sell one unit of an underlying financial asset at the strike price only on the expiry date . For one stock share, its terminal financial payoff is the positive partFor strike price , terminal stock prices , , and give financial payoffs , , and , respectively. At , selling for rather than the market price supplies the difference ; at , the holder can let the right expire. Equality at gives zero net exercise value. The European call option example plots both financial payoffs on the same axes.
Combining a European put option with the underlying stock share produces the terminal amount . Its floor at the strike price is why a European put option can describe protection against a fall in terminal stock value. The protection has an initial cost and lasts to the specified expiry; the terminal floor alone says nothing about the financial return. Put-call parity replicates this same amount with a European call option and a zero-coupon bond.
Using the put-call parity example's price , the cost financed for one year at interest rate grows to . The terminal net amount is therefore approximately when , and when or . These computations use the unrounded price and distinguish the financial payoff from the financed gain. Unlike an American put option, a European put option supplies no right to exercise before .
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