For a finite extension , the automorphism group has order dividing . Indeed, Artin's theorem gives , while and the tower law gives the divisibility.
A polynomial over a field is separable when it has no repeated root in a splitting field. Equivalently, it is coprime to its formal derivative.
Galaxy dynamics studies the gravitational motions and evolution of stars, gas, dark matter, and satellite systems in galaxies.
A galaxy rotation curve gives circular speed as a function of radius. Its decomposition into stellar, gaseous, and dark-matter contributions is generally nonunique.
The star formation rate is the mass converted into stars per unit time. Infrared luminosity traces dust-reprocessed light from young stars, while molecular-gas tracers locate their cold fuel.
The continuous dual space of a topological vector space is the vector space of its continuous linear functionals. Unlike the algebraic dual, it requires that a small change in an input produce a small change in its scalar measurement. For a normed vector space, this is equivalent to a finite boundfor all vectors and some constant . The least such constant is the operator norm of .
This is the continuity-restricted subspace of the algebraic dual space; in infinite dimension the two can differ.
For the linear functional on with its Euclidean norm, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesEquality holds on the unit vector , so its operator norm is exactly . The same estimate controls measurement error: . The linear functional diagram shows which changes are entirely invisible to this measurement; its kernel of a linear map consists of the changes with zero response. All linear functionals on a finite-dimensional real or complex normed vector space are continuous, but discontinuous functional detected by vanishing sequence tails shows why the restriction matters in infinite dimension.
Translations of a compactly supported bump can form an infinite family separated by a fixed sup-norm distance, disproving compactness.
Space of continuous functions vanishing at infinity by
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A bounded bilinear form on a real Hilbert space that is a coercive bilinear form represents every bounded linear functional uniquely: for each , there is a unique with for every .
For a proof, the Riesz representation theorem gives a bounded linear operator and a vector with and . Coercivity and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality give , so is injective and its image is closed: convergence of makes a Cauchy sequence, whose limit supplies the image limit. If belongs to the orthogonal complement of the image, then for every ; setting and using coercivity forces . Thus the image is also dense and equals . There is consequently a unique with , and . The complex version uses a bounded sesquilinear form with .
Every bounded linear functional on a linear subspace of a real normed space extends to the whole space without increasing its norm.
The numerical range is .
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