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Suppose a nonconstant morphism of varieties $f:X\to Z$ has fiber $Y$ over $z_0$, where $X$ is normal, connected and projective. Choose an affine neighborhood $U$ of $z_0$ and a regular function on $U$ nonconstant on $f(X)\cap U$. Its pullback is a nonconstant rational function on $X$, so its pole Weil divisor is nonzero. A pole-free rational function on a normal variety is regular, and global regular functions on a connected projective variety are constant. The pole divisor avoids $f^{-1}(U)$, hence avoids $Y$. No projectivity assumption on $Z$ is needed.

Two distinct singular points would impose at least two zeros each on the restriction of the cubic to their joining line. A nonzero homogeneous polynomial of degree three cannot have total zero multiplicity four, so that restriction vanishes identically. The line would be a component, contradicting the irreducible polynomial hypothesis. This argument works in every characteristic.

For an adapted process with pathwise right continuity, fix $T$ and approximate its time argument by the next endpoint of a deterministic partition of $[0,T]$. Every approximation is jointly measurable for the terminal product sigma-algebra because all sampled values are ${\mathcal{F}}_T$-measurable. Right continuity makes them converge pointwise, proving progressive measurability. Sampling from the right need not preserve adaptedness at intermediate times, but that is not required in this proof.

Let a probability space have two sample points, one of probability zero and one of probability one, and give it the complete power-set sigma-algebra at every time. Let $A\subseteq [0,1]$ be non-Borel. Assign the stochastic process the path $1_A(t)$ at the null sample point and the zero path at the other point. Each fixed-time variable is measurable and the paths are càdlàg almost surely, but the stochastic process is not progressively measurable: a section in the time variable of a product-measurable function must be Borel measurable at every sample point. The zero stochastic process is an indistinguishable progressively measurable version. Completing the filtration does not complete the time-product sigma-algebra or remove this distinction.

For binary observations with success probability $\Phi (\beta x_i)$, introduce latent $Z_i\sim N(\beta x_i,1)$ and let the sign determine the observation. Given $\beta$ and the observed sign, each latent variable has a truncated normal distribution. With a standard normal prior, the full conditional distribution of $\beta$ is normal with precision $1+{\sum }_i{x}_i^2$ and mean ${\sum }_i{x}_i{Z}_i/(1+{\sum }_i{x}_i^2)$. Alternating these blocks is Gibbs sampling with the required marginal posterior.

For correct continuous conditional forecasts, the conditional probability integral transform is uniform given the entire past. Iterating conditional probabilities makes the transformed sequence independent and uniform. Uniformity and serial checks assess absolute predictive calibration using only the forecast distributions and observations.

A Sylow pro-$p$ subgroup of a profinite group is a closed pro-$p$ subgroup whose images are Sylow $p$-subgroups in every finite quotient. Such subgroups exist and are conjugate. Every open subgroup containing one has index prime to $p$. They allow prime-to-$p$ finite extensions to detect $p$-primary Galois cohomology.

If idempotents $e_1,\dots ,e_N$ satisfy $e_i{e}_j=0$ for $i>j$, then the left ideals $A{e}_i$ have an internal direct sum. Multiply a relation $\sum z_i=0$ by $e_1$ on the right to obtain $z_1=0$, and continue in order. Pairwise orthogonality in both directions is unnecessary. If the sum has dimension $\dim A$, it is the whole algebra.

Frost heave is displacement caused by segregated ice growth supplied by liquid flow, rather than solely by the expansion of water on freezing. A premelting film allows liquid access beneath the ice; thermomolecular pressure draws supply against viscous resistance and load.

Thermomolecular pressure is the temperature-dependent force per area transmitted through a thin liquid film between a solid and a substrate. For a repulsive ice-film interaction $p_T=A/(6\pi a^3)$, it can drive water through a porous material and support a load. Its thermodynamic relation to undercooling is the Clapeyron pressure relation for equal-density phases.

A normalized positive linear functional on $C(\Omega )$ for Cantor space gives a finitely additive set function on the algebra of clopen sets. If a countable disjoint union of such sets is itself clopen, compactness gives a finite subcover; all other terms are empty. Finite additivity therefore gives the required countable additivity, making $\ell$ a premeasure. The Caratheodory extension theorem produces a unique Borel probability measure.

For $C(K)=\mathbb{E}(S-K{)}_{+}$ and $\mathbb{E}S<\infty$, split the static call integral at a fixed positive strike. The first moment bounds the integrand near zero; polynomial call decay controls the integral at infinity for $0<\epsilon <\delta$. The endpoint can fail, as shown by a Pareto distribution with survival exponent $1+\delta$.

For $K>0$ and $s>K$, minimize $(s/K{)}^{1+\epsilon }/(s/K-1)$. Its minimum occurs at $s/K=(1+\epsilon )/\epsilon$, giving the sharp constant. Taking expected values yields a uniform bound on $K^{\epsilon }C(K)$ from a finite moment of order $1+\epsilon$.

On a bounded connected Lipschitz domain, let $u\ge 0$ belong to the BV space, and let $T$ be a positivity-preserving operator with $T1\ne 0$. Writing $u=c1+(u-c1)$, $c=u_{\Omega }\ge 0$, the triangle inequality and Poincaré inequality for total variation give $c\Vert T1{\Vert }_1\le \Vert Tu{\Vert }_1+\Vert T\Vert \Vert u-c{\Vert }_1\le \Vert Tu{\Vert }_1+C_{\Omega }\Vert T\Vert \mathrm{TV}(u)$. Thus forward-image and variation bounds control the missing constant mode, and hence the full $BV$ norm.

On ${\ell }^2$, the bounded self-adjoint operator $(Lv{)}_j=v_j/j$ is strictly positive. Yet $f_j=1/j$ lies in ${\ell }^2$ and $Lu=f$ would require the non-square-summable vector $u_j=1$. A positive uniform lower bound, rather than strict positivity alone, guarantees a bounded inverse for a bounded self-adjoint operator.

For a finite mixture with positive weights $p_i$ and rates ${\lambda }_i>0$, the survivor function is $S(t)={\sum }_i{p}_i{e}^{-{\lambda }_{i}t}$ and the hazard function is the surviving-population mean of the component rates. Write $w_i(t)=p_i{e}^{-{\lambda }_{i}t}/S(t)$. Differentiation gives $w_i^{\prime }=w_i(h-{\lambda }_i)$ and therefore $h^{\prime }=h^2-{\sum }_i{w}_i{\lambda }_i^2=-\mathrm{Var}(\Lambda \mid T>t)$. The hazard is decreasing, strictly so when distinct rates have positive weights. For finitely many rates it tends to the smallest rate with positive weight. This is survival selection even though each individual component has a constant hazard.

In a population mixture with initial component probabilities $p_i$, conditioning on survival to time $t$ changes them to the displayed probabilities by Bayes theorem. Components with larger survivor functions receive greater relative weight among survivors. The population hazard function is the weighted mean of the component hazards with these time-dependent weights. This selection can change the population hazard even when all component hazards are constant, as shown by the hazard derivative for a mixture of exponential distributions.

For the permutation action on $n$ coordinates with $n\ge 2$, every alternating-group invariant is a symmetric polynomial plus the Vandermonde product $\Delta$ times a symmetric polynomial. Thus the invariant ring is $\mathbb{C}[e_1,\dots ,e_n,Z]/(Z^2-D(e_1,\dots ,e_n))$, where $D$ is the discriminant polynomial. The two summands are independent over the symmetric polynomial ring.

A finite group permutes the associate classes of irreducible polynomial factors of an invariant. The product of one representative from each orbit transforms by a scalar character of the group. If that character is trivial, the product is invariant. Its transitive factor orbit makes it prime in the invariant ring: an invariant polynomial divisible by one orbit factor is divisible by all of them.

If a finite group has no nontrivial homomorphism to ${\mathbb{C}}^{\times }$, its polynomial invariant ring is a unique factorization domain. Factor an invariant in the ambient polynomial ring and collect its irreducible factors into orbit products. Each orbit product transforms by a linear character, hence is invariant. It is prime in the invariant ring, and the invariant factorization is a product of these primes.