Units of the quadratic field Q square root of five by
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An Euler product factors a Dirichlet series into local factors indexed by prime numbers. For a multiplicative arithmetic function and in a half-plane of absolute convergence,
The Dirichlet hyperbola method turns a long summation over a Dirichlet convolution into two short ones by covering the lattice points below a hyperbola with two overlapping strips. Its simplest application is an exact count: for a positive integer , every positive integer divisor of corresponds to the ordered pair . Thus the divisor summatory function counts precisely the ordered pairs of positive integers with :Here is the divisor function, and the floor function gives the number of allowed values of for each . The axes are excluded, while points on are included.
Set , using the floor function and the positive square root. Every counted pair has or . Otherwise . The first strip contains points; swapping the two coordinates gives the same count for the second. Their overlap contains all pairs with , since . The inclusion-exclusion principle therefore gives the exact identityThe subtraction is for the whole overlap square, rather than only the diagonal. The same Dirichlet hyperbola method identity holds for real , with and . [ref]
Multiplicative number theory: The pretentious approach by Andrew Granville and K. Soundararajan. Andrew Granville and K. Soundararajan, Multiplicative number theory: The pretentious approach, §1.1.4, pp. 7–8: divisor pairing and the hyperbola split
The Dirichlet hyperbola method counts 35 positive lattice points with : two strips of 22 points overlap in a square of nine points
. Details. The functional equation may be written
For a primitive nonprincipal Dirichlet character with parity , the Gamma function poles in its completed Dirichlet L-function force zeros of at , . The functional equation and nonvanishing of nonprincipal Dirichlet L-functions at one show that these zeros are simple and cancel the poles, rather than remaining zeros of the completion. For the Dirichlet beta function, the odd-parity examples are . The primitive principal conductor-one case is different: its zeta trivial zeros start at and the completion has poles at zero and one.
Hankel residue extraction gives , , and values at other nonpositive integers from the Taylor coefficients of .
The adjacency matrix of a finite directed graph has entry equal to the number of directed edges from vertex to vertex . The entry counts length- directed walks from to , so counts pointed closed directed walks of length .
A directed walk is a sequence of vertices in which each consecutive pair is joined by a directed edge in the direction traversed.
Comparison principle for convex variational integrals by
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For suitable convex integral functionals, ordered boundary values of two minimizers imply the same ordering in the domain. Affine minimizers can therefore serve as upper and lower barriers.
Boundary data satisfy the bounded slope condition with constant when every boundary point admits affine lower and upper supporting functions of Lipschitz constant at most . Comparison with these barriers gives a global Lipschitz bound for convex variational problems.
A Dirac spinor transforms as , so it combines the two Weyl chiralities into a parity-invariant representation.
A left- or right-handed Weyl spinor transforms in the Lorentz representation or . Parity exchanges the two chiralities.
Distributional derivative of the Heaviside step function by
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A nonlinear diffusion equation lets diffusivity depend on the evolving field; the porous-medium equation is a standard example.
The constant-coefficient one-dimensional advection-diffusion equation isTranslation to coordinates moving at speed reduces it to the heat equation.
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