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A Possible New Theorem in Plane Geometry: Characterizing the Barycenter by Geometric Progression
Theorem: Characterization of the barycenter by geometric progression
Setting and hypotheses
Let A and B be two distinct points of the plane P, and alpha a real number, and k a nonzero real number.
Let ...
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A Completely New Analysis of the Nautilus and Spirula spirula [closed]
I would like to share with you what I believe is a completely new approach to the analysis of the spiral structures of the Nautilus and Spirula Spirula shells.
My aim was to investigate whether these ...
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Exponent of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb F_q)$ and its semisimple part
Let $q=p^f$, and let $n\ge2$. I am studying the exponent of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb F_q)$ as part of a more general problem concerning linear groups over finite local rings.
For $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb ...
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Can a finite arrangement of plane mirrors create the illusion of an intact building?
In the Colombian film masterpiece La estrategia del caracol (directed by Sergio Cabrera), Jacinto, an old Spanish anarchist and intellectual, designs an ingenious optical illusion. He places a large ...
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Strong continuity of $\Gamma_!$ for locally rigid proper categories
Let $C$ be a locally rigid proper category over, say, the category $Sp$ of spectra. It is self-dual and proper, so it has a strongly continuous evaluation functor $\mathrm{ev}: C\otimes C\to Sp.$ This ...
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Quantum $\operatorname{SU}(2)$ and the $6$ vertex model
The standard $R$-matrix that gives the quantum matrices $M_q(2)$ (which quotient to give Woronowicz's $\operatorname{SU}_q(2)$) is given by
$$
R^{ij}_{kl} = q^{\delta_{ij}} \delta_{ik}\delta_{jl} + (q-...
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Which topos (or topoi) most accurately reflect Brouwer's ideas on intuitionism?
Let me first clarify that I am not expecting the titular question to have a single well-defined answer (or it would probably have to be a useless one like “the topos freely generated by the following ...
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Question about three consecutive prime numbers
Let $a$, $b$, and $c$ be three consecutive prime numbers. Does the following inequality always hold? $(c-b)(b-a) < a+b+c$
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Cycle structure and pattern probabilities for the product of two overlapping random $k$-cycles
Fix $k\ge 1$ and let $\sigma,\tau$ be independent uniformly random $k$-cycles on a common ground set of size $N=2k-m$, chosen so that $|\mathrm{supp}(\sigma)\cap\mathrm{supp}(\tau)|=m$ exactly (...
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Can we tile the plane with mutually similar and mutually non-congruent copies of some polygon that is not itself a tile?
Ref 1: Tiling with similar tiles
Ref 2: Tiling the plane with pair-wise non-congruent and mutually similar triangles
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Can $MI_n\setminus x_n$ be represented by a fixed three-dimensional quotient construction for every $n \ge 0$?
Fix an integer $n\ge 0$. Let $X,Y,Z$ be pairwise disjoint sets of size
$n+1$, also disjoint from $\{1,2,3,4\}$, and put
$$
E_n=\{1,2,3,4\}\sqcup X\sqcup Y\sqcup Z,
\qquad r=n+3.
$$
Define
$$
\begin{...
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Extremal monomorphisms do not have to be strong
$\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}$I would like to know examples of extremal monomorphisms that are not strong monomorphisms. Of course, by duality, this is equivalent to finding examples of extremal ...
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Understanding the maximal parahoric subgroups of special unitary groups
$\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}$In Section 3.11 of "Reductive groups over local fields" (Tits 1979), Tits explicitly describes representatives for the $2$ conjugacy classes of maximal parahoric ...
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What is the strength of the set of all translations provable by ZFC to satisfy a model of TSTI?
Let $\cal M$ be a model of the Theory of Simple Types with Infinity "$\sf TSTI$" constructed via $\sf ZFC$, in the sense that there is a syntactic injective map $\tau$ (we call it a '...
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Scale-dependence of the Hölder coefficient in Constantin–Fefferman vorticity-direction coherence at the viscous scale
Constantin–Fefferman [1] and subsequent work (Grujić [2], Dascaliuc–Grujić–Jolly [3]) control vortex stretching in the 3D Navier–Stokes equations using coherence of the vorticity direction $\xi = \...