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The Löb axiom gives $\square F\to \square q$. The tautology $q\to F$, necessitated and distributed, gives $\square q\to \square F$. Thus $\square F\leftrightarrow \square q$, and replacing the antecedent in $\square F\to q$ gives exactly $F$. Setting $q=\perp$ produces a negative-provability fixed point, provably equivalent to $\neg \square \perp$.

In Gödel-Löb logic, the one-variable identity $\square C(\top )\leftrightarrow \square C(\square C(\top ))$ solves a boxed equation with a formula omitting its unknown letter. A finite simultaneous system can be solved by elimination. First solve its last equation with the other unknowns treated as parameters, substitute that formula into the preceding equations, and apply induction. Substituting the resulting solutions back into the last formula completes the system. This construction introduces no new parameter letters.

If every occurrence of $p$ in $X(p)$ lies under a box, Gödel-Löb logic has a formula $F$ without $p$, using only the other letters of $X$, satisfying the displayed equivalence. Write $X(p)=H(\square C_1(p),\dots ,\square C_m(p))$ using the outermost boxes that contain $p$, so $H$ has no $p$. Solve $q_i\leftrightarrow \square C_i(H(q_1,\dots ,q_m))$ by simultaneous boxed fixed-point elimination in GL. If the solutions are $Q_i$, then $F=H(Q_1,\dots ,Q_m)$ works by replacement of provably equivalent formulas.

A formula provably equivalent to a boxed formula satisfies $F\to \square F$ in GL. The displayed fixed point then gives both $\square \square F$ and $\square \neg \square F$ under $F$, hence $\square \perp$. Boxed explosion proves the reverse implication. Under arithmetic realization this is a formal inconsistency statement; Sigma-1 soundness excludes its provability, while second incompleteness excludes provability of its negation.

The Löb axiom $\square (\square A\to A)\to \square A$ over normal modal logic already implies $\square X\to \square \square X$. Put $C=\square X\wedge X$. Distribution gives $\square C\to \square X$, hence $X\to (\square C\to C)$. Necessitation and distribution give $\square X\to \square (\square C\to C)$; the Löb axiom gives $\square C$, which implies $\square \square X$.

Choose cofinal ordinals ${\alpha }_i<\kappa$, indexed by $\mu =\mathrm{cf}(\kappa )$, and set $a_i=|{\alpha }_i|$. Then ${\sum }_i{a}_i=\kappa$ and $a_i^{+}\le \kappa$. The König theorem for cardinal numbers gives $\kappa <{\prod }_i{a}_i^{+}\le {\kappa }^{\mu }$. The estimate holds for every infinite cardinal number, regular or singular, under the usual axiom of choice convention for cardinal arithmetic.

For independent positive-support geometric random variables with success probabilities $p_i$, all must exceed $k$ for their minimum to exceed $k$. The resulting survival function is ${\prod }_i(1-p_i{)}^k$. This is the positive-support geometric distribution with the displayed success probability. Independence is needed for multiplying the survival probabilities.

Multiply two copies of the generating function of the physicists' Hermite polynomials and integrate against $e^{-t^2}$. Completing the square givesComparing coefficients gives the displayed orthogonality and normalization. Equivalently differentiation in $y,z$ at zero justifies coefficient extraction by the Gaussian integrable bound on compact parameter ranges. Hence the unnormalized Hermite functions $e^{-t^2/2}{H}_n(t)$ have norm ${\pi }^{1/4}\sqrt{2^{n}n!}$. This proves their mutual orthogonality; completeness of that family is an additional assertion.

For two independent standard normal random variables, the maximum of their absolute values has distribution function $(2\Phi (x)-1{)}^2$ for $x\ge 0$. Differentiation and integration by parts, using ${\phi }^{\prime }(x)=-x\phi (x)$, give its expectation as $8{\int }_0^{\infty }\phi (x{)}^{2}dx=2/\sqrt{\pi }$. This exact value can detect missing factors in two-sided Gaussian-maximum estimates.

For a real symmetric positive-definite matrix $A=D+L+L^T$, let $e_k$ be the Gauss-Seidel method error and $d_k=e_k-e_{k+1}$. Its recurrence gives $A{e}_k=(D+L)d_k$. Expanding the two squared energy norms yields $2d_k^{T}A{e}_k-d_k^{T}A{d}_k=d_k^{T}D{d}_k$. Every diagonal entry of $D$ is positive, so the error energy strictly decreases unless $d_k=0$. In that case $A{e}_k=0$ and the exact solution has already been reached. This identity exhibits the method as a sequence of energy-reducing coordinate corrections.

For the rate-parameterized Gamma distribution with shape $r>0$ and rate $\lambda >0$, integration of its probability density giveswhen $t<\lambda$, by the gamma function integral and a change of variables. The integral is infinite for $t\ge \lambda$. In particular the moment-generating function is finite on an open interval containing zero, so the uniqueness theorem for moment-generating functions applies. Multiplication of these moment-generating functions proves additivity of independent gamma distributions with a common rate.

For a divergence-free drift $\mathbf{b}$ and a function $v$ with zero boundary Sobolev trace, integration by parts gives ${\int }_{\Omega }v\mathbf{b}\cdot \nabla v=\frac{1}{2}{\int }_{\partial \Omega }{v}^2\mathbf{b}\cdot \mathbf{n}-\frac{1}{2}{\int }_{\Omega }(\nabla \cdot \mathbf{b})v^2=0$. Consequently the advection matrix in a conforming Galerkin method has zero quadratic form; its symmetric part vanishes. Adding a diffusion stiffness matrix gives a nonpositive spatial generator and a nonincreasing L2 norm in the semidiscrete advection-diffusion equation. The same identity holds with a suitable zero normal-flux boundary term instead of zero trace.

Suppose a first-order language has logical implication as its only connective and has either or both of the quantifiers, but no primitive falsity. In a singleton structure with every atomic predicate true, all atomic equalities are also true, and structural induction makes every formula true. No formula of this language can therefore express a negated equality. Quantifiers cannot repair this failure of expressive completeness, even though they add syntactic operations beyond propositional connectives.

Among sixteen binary Boolean truth functions, eight become functionally complete together with negation. The eight affine functions cannot express conjunction because composition preserves affinity. Each of the other eight truth tables has exactly one or three true rows. Negating the output if needed and selected inputs transforms its unique true row to the conjunction table. Thus conjunction and negation become definable and disjunctive normal form expresses every Boolean function.

A constant symbol is a zero-ary function symbol. Its interpretation in a first-order structure names one fixed domain element, and the symbol is a closed term. A language can contain no constant symbols unless a construction explicitly adds them.