The Hermitian conjugate is . A matrix is unitary when , and Hermitian when .
The intermediate value theorem says that a continuous takes every value between and . For , the closed sets where and cannot separate the connected interval; equivalently, taking the supremum of and using continuity gives a point with value .
Set and for . Every interval contains a zero ; continuity on makes take every value between and , yet is discontinuous at .
A monotone function can be discontinuous only by a jump. If it had a jump at , any number strictly between the left and right limits would lie between and but would not be attained, contrary to the hypothesis. Thus it is continuous.
For the last assertion, pass to subsequences with both within of and near , near . For , the intermediate value theorem on the interval joining and gives with ; then . The endpoint cases use the original sequences.
The constant is the curvature radius of the closed spatial slices when ; at general scale factor their curvature radius is and their scalar curvature is .
The cosmological perfect-fluid continuity equation is
During expansion, , and therefore
If , then throughout the later expanding phase
Multiplying the Friedmann equation by gives
The right-hand side is negative once
which is impossible because . Thus the scale factor cannot grow without bound.
In fact the expanding phase ends in finite time. Combining the Friedmann and continuity equations yields the Friedmann acceleration equation
The curvature term in the first Friedmann equation also implies
While remains below the finite bound just found, is bounded above by a strictly negative constant. Hence reaches zero after finite time: the closed universe attains a maximum size and cannot expand forever. This is recollapse of a closed Friedmann universe with nonnegative pressure.
Taking downward distance as positive, the Lagrangian is
At equilibrium the lower spring supports only the lower mass, while the upper spring supports both masses:
Hence
Let . The linear terms cancel by the equilibrium equations, and the quadratic Lagrangian is
with the small-oscillation mass and stiffness matrices
The generalized eigenvalue problem for small oscillations is
Its characteristic equation is
so
Corresponding displacement eigenvectors are
They are not orthogonal in the ordinary Euclidean inner product. They are orthogonal in the kinetic-energy, or mass-matrix, inner product:
This is mass-matrix orthogonality of normal modes.
The Papperitz symbol
describes the two-dimensional solution space of a second-order homogeneous Fuchsian differential equation on the Riemann sphere with exactly three regular singular points . Near , its two independent Frobenius behaviours are locally
subject to logarithmic modifications in resonant cases. The six characteristic exponents obey the Fuchs relation
For the Gauss hypergeometric equation, the exponents at infinity are and . Put . Transforming the Papperitz symbol from to shows that
and
are local solutions near , with respective leading behaviours and . When , these behaviours are distinct and the two solutions are linearly independent. They therefore form a basis of the solution space on any simply connected common domain with compatible branch choices.
The solution normalized at zero can be analytically continued into that domain. Since it solves the same second-order equation, it must be a constant linear combination of the basis at infinity:
The constants depend on and the branch convention, but not on . This is the hypergeometric connection formula at infinity.
Writing , , and , the fitted normal linear model is
The R formula lstat * age includes both main effects and their interaction term.
Three notable features are:
  • The fitted model is highly significant overall: its statistic is on degrees of freedom with . Its , however, means that about of the observed response variation remains unexplained, and the residual standard deviation is about house-value units.
  • At fixed age, the fitted slope with respect to lstat is
    The large negative main coefficient is strongly significant. The positive interaction is significant at the level (), indicating that this negative association becomes slightly weaker for older housing tracts.
  • The age main-effect estimate is essentially zero with , but it is the age effect specifically at and should not be interpreted separately from the significant interaction. The diagnostic plots also show curved residual structure, increasing spread, a heavy upper tail with observations 215, 372, and 373, and substantial influence from observation 215. These features cast doubt on linearity, constant variance, and Gaussian residual assumptions.
A context-free grammar is in Chomsky normal form when every production has one of the forms
where are nonterminals and is a terminal. One may additionally allow when the empty word belongs to the language, usually with the restriction that the start symbol does not occur on a right-hand side.
An -production has the form . A unit production has the form for nonterminals .
In , the productions for give
Consequently
In , and generate and , while again gives
Since , the two start productions generate exactly
Thus
Every production of has the required binary-nonterminal or single-terminal form, so is the Chomsky-normal-form grammar for the nonempty part of .

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