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A geodesic is maximal when it has no geodesic extension to a strictly larger interval. Every initial position and velocity determine a unique maximal geodesic through the geodesic equation.
Two finite CW complexes can have isomorphic integral cohomology rings but different cohomology rings modulo . For example, attaching a three-cell of degree to the projective line in preserves the nonzero square of the degree-two class modulo , whereas the corresponding Moore space wedged with has zero square. The spaces therefore cannot be homotopy equivalent.
For positive , let be the pullbacks of the orientation classes from the two factors. Then , generates degree , and . When is even, every graded ring automorphism restricts on to a signed permutation matrix; when is odd the ring admits every matrix in .
The only regular functions defined on all of a nonempty projective space over a field are the constants:For , this also follows by gluing and inside : their intersection is .
The CYK algorithm decides membership in a context-free language given by a grammar in Chomsky normal form. It records, for every substring, the nonterminals that derive that substring and combines adjacent substrings using binary productions. For a word of length and a fixed grammar, it runs in time.
To convert a context-free grammar to Chomsky normal form, first add a fresh start symbol. Remove epsilon productions, retaining the exceptional start production only when the empty word is to remain in the language; then remove unit productions and symbols that cannot participate in a terminal derivation. Replace each terminal occurring in a right-hand side of length at least two by a new nonterminal that produces that terminal. Finally split every right-hand side of length greater than two into binary productions using fresh nonterminals.
If is represented by a nonzero rational differential, multiplication by identifies the Riemann-Roch space with the vector space of holomorphic differential forms. The Riemann-Roch theorem gives for a smooth projective curve of genus .
If is a uniformizer at a point of a smooth projective curve and a nonzero rational differential is , then . This integer is independent of the chosen uniformizer. Its positive and negative values are respectively the orders of the zero and pole of at .
A rational differential on a smooth projective curve is a rational section of its canonical bundle. In a local coordinate it has the form for a rational function .
The BRST current is the conserved worldsheet current whose contour integral is the BRST operator. For the bosonic string it is built from the reparameterization ghost and the matter and ghost stress tensors; its self-OPE is nonsingular only when the total central charge vanishes.
A face-centered cubic lattice has lattice points at every corner and face center of a conventional cube. One primitive cell has one quarter of the conventional cube's volume.
Two probability measures supported on one compact interval are equal if all their moments are equal. Indeed, equality on monomials gives equality on polynomials, the Weierstrass approximation theorem extends it to every continuous function on the interval, and compactly supported continuous functions determine a finite Borel measure.
For independent binomial counts with observed proportions and fitted probabilities , the deviance from the saturated model iswith the usual convention .
If an event occurs with probability and is independently retained with conditional probability , its retained indicator is Bernoulli with probability . Applying this independently to a binomial count turns into .
For reparameterization ghosts of weights two and minus one, the canonical anticommutators imply . This operator-product expansion fixes the ghost contractions and the ghost stress tensor.
For and , the posterior isThe Bayes estimator under quadratic loss is the posterior mean and its Bayes risk is the trace of the posterior covariance, .
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
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- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
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Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
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