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Writing the velocity as givesso the flow is incompressible. With the conventiona stream function isThe streamlines are its level sets. For , they are the hyperbolaswith separatrices and a saddle at the origin. For , they are concentric ellipsestraversed clockwise. This is the streamline classification of a planar linear saddle or centre.
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Vanishing net charge density does not require vanishing current. Positive and negative charge carriers can cancel in charge density while their oppositely directed motions add to a nonzero current. Charge conservation only requiresfor magnetostatics this becomes .
Because , one may introduce a magnetic vector potential withIt is not unique: gives the same field for any scalar .
For the stated current,so it is consistent with stationary charge conservation. Direct calculation givesThus is a Beltrami field. For , chooseThen and . A convenient Coulomb-gauge potential issince and . Gradient gauge terms may of course be added.
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Multiplication by puts the equation in Sturm-Liouville theory form:Multiply the equations for by , subtract and integrate. The boundary term vanishes because at both endpoints and the polynomial derivatives are bounded. Therefore, for ,This is the usual Chebyshev polynomial orthogonality.
Differentiating the original equation and writing givesIts self-adjoint form isThe same subtraction argument now yields, for ,These two relations form the Chebyshev derivative Sturm-Liouville pair.
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The contraction mapping theorem states that a contraction of a nonempty complete metric space has a unique fixed point, and that the iterates from every starting point converge to it. To prove this, choose and put . Thenso, for ,Thus is Cauchy and converges, by completeness, to some . A contraction is continuous, soIf is another fixed point, thenforcing .
For the Newton mapone has andOn the given neighbourhood,Since , choose a closed interval centred at and contained in so small that there. Thenso and is a contraction on the complete interval . The local contraction proof for Newton iteration therefore shows that is the unique fixed point of on .
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The Eisenstein criterion says that a primitive polynomialis irreducible if there is a prime such thatBy the Gauss lemma for polynomials, irreducibility over and over agree for primitive polynomials.
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If the urn contains green balls, it contains red balls: both update rules preserve the difference . Until absorption at , the green count is therefore a birth-death chain withThe functionis harmonic, since
Let and be the hitting times of and . The optional sampling theorem for a supermartingale, applied to the bounded stopped martingale , givesSolving,Letting , the events on the left increase to eventual termination. The harmonic hitting probability for the balanced-difference urn is therefore
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A gauge transformation isBecause partial derivatives commute, the added contribution to isso the electromagnetic field tensor is gauge invariant.
The identityfollows directly from . Its spatial and mixed components areFor the other two equations define the four-currentThen givesand givesThis is the Covariant Maxwell equation with the minus-plus-plus-plus metric.
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