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This tag is used if a reference is needed in a paper or textbook on a specific result.

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While experimenting with visualizations of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line, I constructed the following object, which I have not seen discussed in the literature, and I would like to ...
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Let $(M,g)$ be a compact connected $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold; let $(X,d)$ denote its associated metric (length) space. A comment on the original formulation of this post mentioned that $(X,...
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Let $G=\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb C)$, $V$ its standard representation, and $V_m=\operatorname{Sym}^m(V)$ with $m\equiv 2 \pmod 4$. It is classical that $$ \Lambda^2 V_m \;\cong\; \bigoplus_{\substack{1\le ...
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I have been studying mathematics for 2 years, and I have already read Terence Tao's publication. Please suggest books on related topics, such as Euler's equations, mathematical modeling, mathematical ...
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$\newcommand\seq[1]{\langle#1\rangle}$A large number of important topological results require simplicial-algebraic machinery (or comparable) to prove. This machinery is ingenious, impressively so even,...
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I'm currently looking at a subspace of $A \subset \ell^p(\mathbb{Z}^n)$ which is generated by some finitely supported elements and their translations. My question is an old one (but the answer is ...
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Let $P, P'$ be symplectic(resp. Hamiltonian) fibrations over a base $B$. If two $P, P'$ are continuously symplectic fibration(resp. Hamiltonian fibration) isomorphic, then are they also smoothly ...
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The following question was asked on a Chinese contest: Prove that there exists a real constant $c>0$ such that if all lattice points inside and on the boundary of a convex polyhedron in $ \mathbb{...
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One way to try to give a value $S$ to a divergent series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ is with a smooth cutoff function: $$ S = \lim_{N\to\infty}\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n \eta\left(\frac{n}{N}\right) $$ where $\...
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A metric $d:M^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is any mapping that satisfies the well-known textbook definition of metric space $(M, d)$. In certain areas (optimal transport, topometric spaces, and quantum ...
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I'm currently working through Tate's paper on $p$-divisible groups and have come to an impasse in his discussion of tangent spaces of $p$-divisible groups. I'd like to show that for an abelian variety ...
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Let $S$ be a symmetric simple random walk starting at $0$ and denote by $p_{n,k}$ the probability $S$ occupes $k\in\mathbf{Z}$ at time $n\in\mathbf{N}$. For any $n\in\mathbf{N}$ denote also $q_n=\left(...
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The following kinds of things seem to be well-known, but I don't know of explicit references. Consider Turaev-Viro TQFT based on a unitary spherical fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. To any surface $\...
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My 2021 book Landscape of 21st Century Mathematics, Selected Advances, 2001–2020 collects great theorems with elementary statements published in 2001-2020. I now finishing the second edition of this ...
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Let $(E_n)_n$ be any finite collection of centred ellipses in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Suppose that $E_n$ are pairwise non-homothetic (i.e. there is no positive constant $c>0$ such that $E_n = c E_m$). Now ...

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