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A quadratic homogeneous polynomial in the fibre variables of the cotangent bundle is a first integral of the geodesic Hamiltonian exactly when its symmetric lowered coefficients form a rank-two Killing tensor. For , the Poisson bracket is , so the equivalence follows by comparing cubic coefficients at every point.
An undirected graph may have repeated edges. Choosing an incident edge uniformly gives transition probability equal to the edge multiplicity divided by the vertex degree. Its stationary probability is proportional to degree and its stationary fluxes are symmetric, making it a reversible Markov chain.
When a person's latent slope has normal distribution , its th quantile is . Multiply by an elapsed time to obtain the corresponding latent change quantile. This describes population variation between people; it is distinct from a confidence interval for the mean slope and from a prediction interval that includes measurement error.
For fixed and , the random-cluster measure at stochastically dominates that at . In Holley's condition, Bernoulli factors cancel. Put and ; supermodularity of graph component count gives , and the weight ratio is . The comparison also holds with the same boundary wiring in both measures.
The threshold for the origin to have an infinite percolation cluster under a consistently chosen infinite-volume random-cluster measure, conventionally the wired measure: . The definition alone makes no assertion about percolation exactly at the threshold.
The multiplicative factor assigned to each connected component of a graph in a finite random-cluster measure. At fixed edge probability, the weight of a configuration with components includes . For this reduces to independent bond percolation; increasing at fixed , for , suppresses increasing events by random-cluster weight monotonicity.
Every finite positive Borel measure on Euclidean space is inner regular by compact sets and outer regular by open sets. For an open set , the compact sets increase to , so continuity from below of a measure gives inner approximation. The empty complement is handled by compact balls. The class of Borel sets admitting both approximations is closed under complements: interchange inner and outer approximations, then truncate the inner closed set by a large compact ball, using finiteness of the measure. For a countable union, approximate its components from outside with summable errors, and approximate finitely many components from inside after making the remaining union's measure small. Thus this class is a sigma-algebra containing the open sets. In particular, a finite measure carried by a Borel null set has compact subsets of that carrier capturing arbitrarily nearly all its mass.
One-equation partition regularity over odd integers by
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A rational homogeneous equation has a monochromatic positive odd solution in every finite colouring of the odd integers exactly when its full coefficient sum is zero. Sufficiency uses a constant odd vector. For necessity, clear denominators and, if the total is nonzero, colour by odd residue classes modulo . A common odd residue is invertible, so a solution would require , impossible. This is stronger than the zero-sum-subset criterion for unrestricted partition regularity.
On a fiberwise star-shaped neighborhood, let scale fibers by and let be the radial vector field. For a closed differential form with zero pullback to the zero section, the homotopy primitive satisfies . For a two-form, it vanishes as an ambient covector along that section, providing the fixed-submanifold condition in the relative Moser theorem.
A pseudo-prior can make model parameter vectors have equal dimensions, allowing identity-matched RJ-MCMC moves. If active and inactive coordinates share the same prior density in the two augmented targets, these factors cancel in model-switch ratios. Within-model updates must preserve the augmented target, including the inactive coordinate's pseudo-prior law.
If two closed subspaces of a Hilbert space give , the projection onto along fixes and vanishes on . It need not be an orthogonal projection. The bounded inverse theorem applied to the addition map on the complete component spaces proves boundedness of the component maps. With both complementary subspaces nonzero, its operator norm and that of equal , with the directed subspace angle convention. Indeed, for fixed , the smallest possible norm of over is , which proves the formula for . Equality with follows from the block representation on : both squared operator norms are . If a summand is zero, is zero or the identity operator, and one complementary operator norm is zero; those cases must be treated directly.
The diagonal multiplicative group of a number field is discrete in its idele group. Require local units at every finite place and an archimedean neighbourhood of one. A diagonal element meeting these restrictions has integral . If , its nonzero integer field norm cannot have absolute value less than one, while sufficiently small archimedean differences would force exactly that.
Scale-free characteristic mass in the Press-Schechter formalism by
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If the linearly extrapolated rms amplitude scales as , a fixed peak-height cutoff in the Press-Schechter halo mass function has , where is the linear growth factor. The differential prefactor scales as and the exponential argument as . The cutoff convention must be stated when fixing its absolute normalization: and select different masses, although their redshift scaling is the same.
A polynomial regression of degree two is linear in its unknown regression coefficients despite being curved in the predictor. Its design matrix has columns ; three distinct predictor values give full column matrix rank.
A regular level surface of the axisymmetric poloidal magnetic flux function contains both the poloidal and toroidal magnetic field directions. Conservation along field lines can be expressed locally as a function of the flux label on connected regular surfaces. Degenerate points with no poloidal magnetic field and disconnected branches with the same label require separate treatment.
A Poisson observation is an integer-valued count modeled by a Poisson distribution of specified intensity, possibly conditionally on a latent field. Independent Poisson observations motivate Poisson data fidelity through their log-likelihood.
When the random intensity is with having an exponential distribution of rate , the mixed count is the sum of independent Poisson distribution and support-zero geometric distribution counts. The Poisson parameter is and the geometric success probability is . At the law is geometric.
For a uniform prior distribution on with , conditionally independent Poisson distribution observations have sufficient count . Their Bayesian posterior density is proportional to on that bounded interval. The displayed posterior mean is the Bayes estimator under squared error loss, and is generally not the affine Bühlmann credibility estimate.
For a closed -dimensional manifold, Poincare duality holds over without an orientation assumption. The mod-two fundamental class exists because orientation signs disappear. The resulting complementary-degree intersection pairing is a perfect pairing.
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