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Let . The Maxwell relations giveSetting gives , hence . Also , and the volume differential gives . Evaluating along constant pressure therefore yields . Eliminate to obtainThese derivatives are taken at fixed particle number, in a thermodynamically regular stable phase.
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The one-particle partition function isThe classical indistinguishable noninteracting gas has ; for labeled particles omit , which changes none of the requested derivatives. With ,The allowed equation of state gives , so the enthalpy is and , at fixed particle number.
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Set . The Schrödinger equation and its conjugate givesince and . In the Wigner transform, integration by parts turns into , yielding the free transport equationAlong its characteristics , the value is constant. ThusFor rapidly decreasing smooth data every integration by parts is justified; weaker data follow distributionally.
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Use with inverse factor . The Fourier transform of the Schrödinger equation gives , hence . To invert the multiplier, first damp it by . The Gaussian integral in each coordinate givesLet , with the branch continuous from positive real damping. The fundamental solution of a linear differential operator isFor Schwartz initial data this convolution and Fourier derivation are justified directly; the multiplier tends to one as and has modulus one, giving the initial data and a unitary extension to . The kernel itself is interpreted through the displayed Abel regularization.
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If the polynomials converge uniformly on the full annulus to , their limit is continuous and equals on the slit annulus by part (ii). That subset is dense in the full annulus, so everywhere. The Cauchy integral theorem and uniform convergence on the unit circle then give
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Choose the argument in on the slit annulus and letThese compact sets increase to the slit annulus, and each has connected complement: the omitted angular corridor joins the inner disk to the outside of the outer disk. The polynomial Runge theorem says that a function holomorphic near a compact set with connected complement can be approximated uniformly there by polynomials. Choose with . Every compact subset of the slit annulus has positive distance from the removed positive ray, so for all sufficiently large . Hence uniformly on every such compact subset.
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Take the holomorphic function on a neighborhood of the annulus. Every polynomial has integral zero around the unit circle by the Cauchy integral theorem, while . Uniform convergence on the annulus would imply convergence of these contour integrals, since their difference is bounded by times the uniform error. Thus uniform polynomial approximation on the full annulus need not exist.
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Let count second-fork arrivals. Its independent increment over is Poisson, andobtained by evaluating . If is even, the next second-fork arrival goes to B, so no B arrival requires zero new arrivals. If it is odd, the next goes to C, so up to one new arrival is allowed. Reverse these alternatives for C. ThereforeAt these reduce to the distinct initial-delay survivors; as , both non-Poisson probabilities approach the equilibrium-delay survivor from part (b).
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For a renewal holding time with mean , the equilibrium residual-life distribution has survivor . For C, and also the common long-run B/C renewal structure, and the Erlang survivor giveFor A the exponential law is already its own equilibrium delay.
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Assume the first-fork choices are independent Bernoulli routings, as in Poisson thinning. Put . Cars assigned to A form a Poisson process of rate , also an ordinary renewal process with independent exponential holding times of rate . The stream to the second fork is an independent Poisson process of rate .
B receives its odd-numbered arrivals. Its initial delay is exponential of rate , followed by independent Erlang distributions of shape two and rate between successive B arrivals. Thus B is a delayed renewal process, not Poisson. C receives the even-numbered arrivals: its first and all subsequent holding times are independent Erlang, so C is an ordinary renewal process, not Poisson. Their holding-time density and survivor are and . Both have asymptotic rate ; equality of these mean rates with A does not make the processes Poisson.
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At , each of the given ambient rotations fixes , rotates its tangent plane and preserves the local surface. Naturality of the shape operator under that rotation makes commute with every planar rotation. A symmetric real two-by-two operator commuting with all rotations is scalar, so every point of is an umbilical point. The trace-free part of the shape operator is continuous. Density therefore makes it zero everywhere on .
Locally write . The Codazzi equation gives for tangent fields ; choosing independent fields proves . Thus the surface is locally a plane if , or has constant spherical centersince its differential is . A change of normal reverses both and , leaving this center unchanged, so these local descriptions patch across the connected surface. In the flat case the whole surface lies in one plane, where a regular surface without boundary is open; a nonempty such set cannot also be compact and closed. Hence the flat case is excluded. In the other case lies on one sphere of radius . Its inclusion in that sphere is locally open, since both have dimension two, and its compactness makes the image closed. Connectedness of the sphere forces the image to be the entire sphere. Therefore is a sphere.
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The shape operator is the self-adjoint tangent map , using a locally chosen unit normal. Its eigenvalues are the principal curvatures, and their eigenvectors give the principal directions. At an umbilical point they coincide, so and every tangent direction is principal. Reversing the normal changes both curvature signs but does not change the principal directions or umbilicity.
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The Theorema Egregium states that Gaussian curvature is determined by the first fundamental form, and therefore preserved by local isometries. For a local surface parametrization , write , choose a unit normal , and set . Decomposing the second derivatives into tangent and normal parts givesCommute the third partial derivatives of and take tangent components. The terms involving derivatives of are normal; the tangent terms give the Gauss equationwhere is computed from derivatives and products of the displayed Christoffel symbols, using . For example the tangent term from differentiating is , which produces exactly the difference of the two products on the right. ConsequentlyThe last expression depends only on and its derivatives. Pulling back under a local isometry therefore preserves , proving the theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 3 23G ii Solution by
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Work geometrically over an algebraic closure; the degree and ramification do not change under this base extension. The coordinate squaring map lands in because its defining equation pulls back to that of . Above a generic target point with all coordinates nonzero there are square-root choices, identified in pairs by simultaneous sign change. HenceThe effective sign-change group is . At a point with all coordinates nonzero its stabilizer is trivial, and the squaring map is locally étale, since characteristic is not two. Thus there. If one coordinate is zero, a sign change of that coordinate fixes the point, giving stabilizer order two. More explicitly, if , use as a local parameter; the curve equation has nonzero derivative in the other coordinate, so this is valid, and the corresponding target parameter is . ThereforeTwo coordinates cannot vanish on either curve. For each vanishing coordinate, the other-coordinate ratio solves , giving eight distinct points; there are 24 ramification points. As a check, the smooth plane-curve genera are and , and Riemann-Hurwitz formula gives .
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At a smooth point of an irreducible curve, the local ring is a discrete valuation ring. A local parameter is an element generating its maximal ideal; its order at is one. Embed the projective target as a closed subvariety of . Write the rational map generically as with , and let be the smallest finite valuation of the nonzero coordinates at . Multiplying by makes every coordinate regular at and at least one a unit. These functions are regular on some common neighborhood of and have no common zero after shrinking, so define a morphism to . The defining homogeneous equations of the target vanish generically and hence identically on this neighborhood. Thus the rational map extends to the projective target at .
For a nonprojective target, from rationally to cannot extend at zero: a regular extension would give there, impossible. In dimension two the morphism on cannot extend to zero, because its constant values along the two punctured coordinate axes are different. This shows why both projectivity of the target and smooth one-dimensional source were used.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 3 1G ii Solution by
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The continued fraction starts , since has integer part . Its next continued fraction convergent is . Direct substitution gives
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Let . Its Galois group embeds into , by sending an automorphism to the exponent in its action on . It is therefore finite abelian, of order dividing . The finite case of the Fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups supplies a subgroup chain whose successive quotients are cyclic of prime order . Every such , since for (and for the possible prime is , whose roots of unity already lie in every characteristic-zero field). Thus every intermediate base contains , because contains all roots of unity of orders smaller than .
Each cyclic degree- step is a Kummer extension. Here is the relevant criterion explicitly. For a generator and a primitive th root , the operator is not identically zero, by linear independence of distinct field automorphisms. Choose its nonzero value ; then , so and . Since the degree is prime, is obtained by adjoining an th radical. Applying this to the subgroup chain proves is a succession of Kummer extensions.
Finally use strong induction on , for arbitrary characteristic-zero base fields. Successively adjoining the roots is contained in a Kummer tower by the induction hypothesis, applied over each current base. The just-proved assertion then adjoins by further Kummer steps. Hence any cyclotomic extension is contained in a Kummer tower. In the given cyclotomic-and-Kummer tower for a soluble extension, replace every cyclotomic step by such a tower; enlarge subsequent steps by compositum with the new intermediate fields. Base change preserves radical adjunction and the requisite roots of unity, possibly making a step trivial. Thus every finite soluble extension is contained in a succession of Kummer extensions.
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Choose the radicals with positive imaginary part. The roots of unity areThe first comes from . For the second, obeys , so ; solving gives the displayed expression. The Kummer extension towers areEach step is quadratic and the base contains the second roots of unity. The second tower really has degrees : its intermediate field is real, while the added radical is nonreal, and belongs to the cyclotomic field.
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No. The disjoint union of copies of the complete graph has exactly the prescribed number of edges and has independence number : an independent set can choose at most one vertex from each component, and choosing one from every component attains .
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Write . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThe proved Caro-Wei bound therefore gives an independent set of at least vertices.
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