Endemic equilibrium of the SIR model with waning immunity by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
When and , the positive equilibrium is
Writing , the reduced Jacobian has characteristic polynomial
Both roots have negative real part. Its discriminant is negative for sufficiently small and positive for sufficiently large , giving respectively a stable focus and a stable node.
Endemic equilibrium of the SIR model with demography by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
When , the positive equilibrium is
On the invariant plane , the Jacobian at this equilibrium has negative trace and positive determinant , so both eigenvalues have negative real part and the equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable.
Singular value by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The singular values of a matrix measure stretching of Euclidean norm. They are the nonnegative square roots of the eigenvalues of , counting the diagonal slots of the singular value decomposition; when , has additional zero eigenvalues. Nonnegativity follows from , so is a positive semidefinite matrix. For the preceding matrix,
Both have eigenvalues , giving singular values . In particular,
Here the operator norm uses Euclidean norm: no unit vector stretches more than fivefold. Zero singular values identify lost directions; the number of positive singular values equals the matrix rank. This summarizes both amplification and information loss with nonnegative numbers.[ref]
Small positive singular values also explain sensitivity in an inverse problem. For a square invertible matrix, the matrix inverse sends to : a weak forward response becomes strong inverse amplification. The condition number for Euclidean norm is , equal to in our example. To see a larger effect, keep the same right singular vectors but change the second singular value to :
The output perturbation has Euclidean norm , but the recovered input changes by . Its hundredfold amplification follows from the direction of the perturbation, not just its size. The condition number is now ; it measures the disparity between the strongest and weakest responses.[ref]
Lambda-definable partial function by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-28
A partial function is lambda-definable when one lambda term maps Church numerals in its domain to the numeral of the output and produces no numeral on inputs outside its domain.
Church Boolean by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
At type , the Church Booleans are and .
Church numeral by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The Church numeral encodes the natural number by iteration.
This theorem establishes strong normalization in the normal form sense. Every well-typed simply typed lambda term admits no infinite beta-reduction sequence.
Fixed-point combinator by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
An untyped lambda term is a fixed-point combinator when for every term .
Church-Rosser theorem by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
If a lambda term beta-reduces to both and , then and beta-reduce to a common term. Consequently two beta-equivalent beta-normal forms are alpha-equivalent.
Every well-typed term in the simply typed lambda calculus has some finite beta-reduction sequence ending in a beta-normal form.
Every holomorphic function on a simply connected domain has a single-valued antiderivative. Fixing and setting
gives a path-independent function with , because the Cauchy integral theorem makes the integral around every closed path zero.
Simplicial pseudomanifold by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The geometric realization is a pseudomanifold without boundary in the convention used here.
A pure -dimensional simplicial complex is a pseudomanifold when every codimension-one simplex belongs to exactly two top-dimensional simplices and the top simplices are connected through shared codimension-one faces.
Simplex by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
An -simplex is the convex hull of affinely independent points. Every point has a unique expression with and , its barycentric coordinates. A zero-simplex is a point, a one-simplex a line segment, a two-simplex a filled triangle, and a three-simplex a tetrahedron. Its faces are obtained by taking subsets of the vertices. This uniform description allows simplicial complexes to build spaces from elementary pieces in every dimension.
Simplex paths on a cube with one truncated corner by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For , , and objective , the oriented edge graph has eight improving paths from the origin to the unique optimum . Their lengths range from three to five pivots.
Similarity equation for a two-dimensional laminar plume by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
With , , , and , the plume boundary-layer equation reduces to
Real similarity from complex similarity by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
If real matrices satisfy for an invertible complex , then , so both real matrices intertwine and . Since is a nonzero real polynomial, some real makes invertible and supplies a real similarity.
Transpose similarity by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Every square matrix over a field is similar to its transpose.
Similarity transformation by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A similarity transformation replaces a square matrix by a similar matrix. With the change-of-basis matrix convention , it sends to : reconstruct the input in old coordinates, apply , then extract the output's new coordinates. These three operations explain the order of the factors.
The equivalent formula uses as the conversion from old to new coordinates, reversing the role assigned to above. For the opening example's numerical , this opposite conversion gives . If the old basis is , the new basis vectors in that convention are the columns of , namely and . Both formulas are similarity transformations; the direction of the coordinate conversion decides which one describes a specified basis.
An especially useful form is the intertwining operator equation
It says that applying before reconstruction by gives the same physical output as reconstructing first and applying . Given an invertible matrix , multiplying this equation by proves matrix similarity. Without invertibility, the equation alone does not prove matrix similarity.
Figure 1.
Matrix similarity makes coordinate conversion commute with the action of a linear operator
. For the worked example, both routes give the old output coordinate vector . The bottom strip records matrix similarity invariants; the eigenvector tuple changes while reconstructing to the same vertical vector. Details.
Upper-bound sieve by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
An upper-bound sieve bounds the size of a sifted set from above. In a dimension-one problem with one forbidden class modulo each relevant prime , its main density factor is comparable to .
Sifting function by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
For a finite set of positive integers and a set of prime numbers , the sifting function counts elements divisible by no prime number in strictly below :
The strict inequality is the endpoint convention used in the Buchstab identity here. With an empty product, and every element survives.
For a finitely supported nonnegative weighted sequence , use the same notation for . Choosing to be the indicator function of recovers the set version. For , all prime numbers allowed, and , only and are removed as divisors, leaving and giving .

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