Complex unit circle by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The complex unit circle is the subgroup under multiplication.
Aleph-zero-homogeneous model by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A model is aleph-zero-homogeneous when every finite partial elementary map extends by one more element.
Type space by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
With its standard topology, this type space is a Stone space. The type space is the set of complete -types over a parameter set that are consistent with the complete theory of together with its diagram over .
Closed-subspace completeness theorem by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A closed subspace of a complete metric space is complete. A Cauchy sequence in the subspace converges in the ambient space, and closedness keeps its limit in the subspace.
Space of smooth functions on a compact interval by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The space becomes a complete metric space under
Convergence in this metric is exactly uniform convergence of every derivative separately.
Baire category theorem by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Every complete metric space is a Baire space: every countable intersection of open dense subsets is dense. Equivalently, no nonempty open subset is a countable union of nowhere-dense subsets.
To prove the dense-intersection form, let be nonempty and open and let be open dense sets. Successively choose closed balls
starting with a ball contained in . The centres form a Cauchy sequence. Its limit belongs to every closed ball, and hence to .
Very ample divisor by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Complementary complete elliptic integral of the first kind by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For the complementary modulus ,
Incompatible forcing conditions by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Two forcing conditions are incompatible when they have no common stronger extension.
Suppose a class requires exactly one of two definable sets to be infinite. Add constants witnessing arbitrarily many distinct members of both sets. Every finite fragment can keep one set infinite and make the other large but finite, whereas compactness makes both sets infinite. Therefore such an exclusive disjunction is not first-order axiomatizable.
If a theory claimed that a poset has only finitely many maximal elements, adjoining countably many constants required to be distinct and maximal would remain finitely satisfiable. Compactness would produce a model with infinitely many maximal elements, contradicting the claimed axiomatization.
Syntactic proof of first-order compactness by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a theory were inconsistent, a proof of contradiction would use a finite inconsistent subset. Therefore consistency of every finite subset implies consistency of the whole theory, and completeness supplies a model.
Proper map by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A continuous map is proper when inverse images of compact sets are compact. Proper maps induce contravariant maps on compactly supported cohomology.
Imaginary Airy operator by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
The imaginary Airy operator on has compact resolvent but empty spectrum. Real translations shift it by a purely imaginary scalar, forcing vertical translation invariance of its spectrum.
Transient communicating class by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
In a finite chain, a communicating class that is not closed is transient: after it is left, it need not be visited again and is eventually left almost surely.
Closed communicating class by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A communicating class is closed when no transition from it can reach a state outside it.
Communicating states by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
Two states of a Markov chain communicate when each can be reached from the other with positive probability in finitely many steps.
P-adic columns lemma by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The necessity direction in Rado's theorem colors an integer using initial data from a P-adic valuation. Applying partition regularity and grouping the coordinates of a monochromatic solution by valuation yields the blocks in the columns property; reduction modulo successively higher powers of supplies the required linear dependences.
Rado's theorem by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Rado's theorem states that a rational matrix is partition regular if and only if it has the columns property.
String operator in a topological code by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A string operator creates excitations at its endpoints. Multiplying by a successive segment moves an endpoint because the shared intermediate excitation is toggled twice.

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