The fractional part of a real number isIt is the amount left after removing the lower enclosing integer, even for negative inputs. Thus . It is not the signed string of digits obtained by truncation toward zero.
Translation by an integer leaves the fractional part unchanged: . It is therefore a periodic function with period one, increasing from zero toward one on each unit interval, then returning to zero at the next integer. In Euclidean division with , ; for , this is .
The notation is useful for following repeated motion modulo an integer. In normality and equidistribution under integer multiplication, the values shift the digits of a positional notation; the fractional part discards the leading integer portion without losing the remaining digits. Its braces must be distinguished by context from the braces denoting a set.
A nonzero commutative ring has the property that forces or exactly when is local with maximal ideal and forces for every -module. Reduction modulo turns a tensor product into a tensor product of vector spaces.
Flat extension preserves finite ideal intersections by
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Torsion-free module over a principal ideal domain is flat by
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Over a principal ideal domain, a module is flat exactly when it is torsion-free. Hence the tensor product of two torsion-free modules over a principal ideal domain is torsion-free: both tensor functors are exact, so their composite is exact.
An -module is flat if and only if is flat over for every prime ideal , equivalently for every maximal ideal.
A flat module is faithfully flat when implies . Every field extension is faithfully flat over its base field.
Under standard regularity conditions, .
Fisher information in a stationary Gaussian autoregressive location model by
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Fisher information tensorizes when the information in an -observation model is the sum of the information contributions from its observations. For identically distributed observations this meansIndependence and the mean-zero score identity make the cross terms vanish.
The mean recurrence time of is . In a finite irreducible Markov chain with stationary distribution , it equals .
A universal theory can be axiomatized by sentences whose quantifiers are all universal. Such sentences often forbid specified finite configurations.
Every formal proof is a finite string and therefore uses only finitely many of the available assumptions.
For every one-variable arithmetical formula , a sufficiently strong theory of arithmetic has a sentence satisfying .
Peano arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with zero, successor, addition, multiplication, order, and the induction scheme.
An automorphism is a bijection from a structure to itself that preserves every operation and relation in its language.
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