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Q: What to do with the erdos tag?

François G. DoraisThis was discussed before but that discussion is outdated. Tags related to a specific person are generally bad. (This is not the same as specific topics named after a person, e.g. Galois theory is not really about Évariste Galois.) Some exceptions can still make sense, Paul Erdős is certainly a ...

 
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Deleted questions tagged (at the moment there are 24 such questions): data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/query/883845/…
Jul 1, 2018 at 8:50, by Martin Sleziak
There are several tags named after people. For example, , , ... A few similar tags I've mentioned some time ago:
Feb 17, 2018 at 8:08, by Martin Sleziak
It seems that falls into the same category as some other problematic tags - , , , , , . I have mentioned some of them before: https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/10243/2017/11/30
 
 
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Speaking of tags named after people, a new tag was created relatively recently.
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Q: Realization of the $p$-adic Steinberg representation as a subrepresentation

Maty MangooLet $G = \mathrm{GL}_n(F)$ where $F$ = non-archimedean local field. The Langlands Classification tells one that all irreducible admissible reps of $\mathrm{GL}_n(F)$ can be realized as (the unique irreducible) quotient of a parabolicly induced representation. In particular, if one takes a (multip...

In mathematics, the Steinberg representation, or Steinberg module or Steinberg character, denoted by St, is a particular linear representation of a reductive algebraic group over a finite field or local field, or a group with a BN-pair. It is analogous to the 1-dimensional sign representation ε of a Coxeter or Weyl group that takes all reflections to –1. For groups over finite fields, these representations were introduced by Robert Steinberg (1951, 1956, 1957), first for the general linear groups, then for classical groups, and then for all Chevalley groups, with a construction that immediately...
 
 
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Q: Has anyone seen this construction of the Weil representation of $\mathrm{Sp}_{2k}(\mathbb{F}_p)$?

David E Speyer$\def\FF{\mathbb{F}}\def\CC{\mathbb{C}}\def\QQ{\mathbb{Q}}\def\Sp{\text{Sp}}\def\SL{\text{SL}}\def\GL{\text{GL}}\def\PGL{\text{PGL}}$Let $p$ be an odd prime. The Weil representation is a $p^k$-dimensional complex representation of $\Sp_{2k}(\FF_p)$. If you read most descriptions of the Weil repre...

In mathematics, the metaplectic group Mp2n is a double cover of the symplectic group Sp2n. It can be defined over either real or p-adic numbers. The construction covers more generally the case of an arbitrary local or finite field, and even the ring of adeles. The metaplectic group has a particularly significant infinite-dimensional linear representation, the Weil representation. It was used by André Weil to give a representation-theoretic interpretation of theta functions, and is important in the theory of modular forms of half-integral weight and the theta correspondence. == Definition == The...
 
 
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A new tag . I'd guess it could be safely removed.
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Q: Topics connecting mathematics (statistics) and mechanical engineering?

Jake B.I am searching for an interesting masters thesis topic connecting mathematics and mechanical engineering. Perhaps statistics and mechanical engineering. Any good ideas?

 
 
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@MartinSleziak I concur about [mechanical]
I deleted [mechanical] and took off the irrelevant tags. I don't like the [thesis] tag, seems like something that is too generic, but I guess it's not the worst
[thesis] only has 13 questions, four closed, including this most recent one. Might be one to keep and eye on and slowly deprecate.
 
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Q: Topics connecting mathematics (statistics) and mechanical engineering?

Jake B.I am searching for an interesting masters thesis topic connecting mathematics and mechanical engineering. Perhaps statistics and mechanical engineering. Any good ideas?

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Q: Which journals publish PhD abstracts?

Douglas S. StonesWith the flavour of this question: Which journals publish expository work?, I would like to ask the following question Which journals publish Ph.D. thesis abstracts? Please post one resource per answer so that it is easy for people to sort the list by voting up/down.

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Q: What is the shortest Ph.D. thesis?

Timothy ChowThe question is self-explanatory, but I want to make some remarks in order to prevent the responses from going off into undesirable directions. It seems that every few years I hear someone ask this question; it seems to hold a perennial fascination for research mathematicians, just as quests for...

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Q: Who wrote up Banach's thesis?

Andreas LoosSometime ago I read somewhere (and I don't remember where it was) that Stefan Banach--a highly creative and great mathematician--did not always write down his ideas. Allegedly, he did not write his own thesis (but of course, all the mathematics in it came from him). Is that true? And is it known ...

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Q: Multi dimensional symbolic dynamics

Jesse Solomon ScottI want to learn Multi dimensional symbolic dynamics. can you point to any recent thesis containing a good exposition or lecture notes?

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Q: A guide to the work of Timothy Gowers on Banach Spaces

Fawzy HegabI'm undergraduate student and I'm thinking of doing my graduation thesis on some of Prof. Gowers work on Banach Spaces. It is not required to produce an original result in my thesis, I'm only asked to read some papers, understand them and write a new one which explains those papers and summarize ...

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Q: How to find research topics in Linear Algebra in Graph Theory

user101506Note: My first question in this site. MSE users asked me to post this question here for better response I am a Masters student in Pure Mathematics. I need to do a Masters thesis in "Linear Algebra in Graph Theory" where I will have to publish some original work in our Departmental Journal mean...

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Q: PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem

Ali TaghaviI search for a big list of open problems which have been solved in a PhD thesis by the Author of the thesis (or with collaboration of her/his supervisor). In my question I search for every possible open problem but I prefer (but not limited) to receive answers about those open problems which ha...

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Q: How do you select an interesting and reasonable problem for a student?

Gordon RoyleI am interested in how to select interesting yet reasonable problems for students to work on, either at Honours (that is, a research-based single year immediately after a degree) or PhD. By this I mean a problem that is unsolved but for which there is a good chance that a student can solve it e...

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Q: Have the "Bayreuther Mathematische Schriften" ever been digitalized?

darij grinbergSee update below. This is borderline off-topic (certainly not a research question), but the rather successful story of a similar question gives me hope. The Bayreuther Mathematische Schriften were a periodical published by the University of Bayreuth from 1979 till 2011, and included research pape...

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Q: Existence parallel vector fields and its effect on the topology of manifolds (Karp's Thesis)

C.F.GIt seems that there is no digital copy of Leon Karp's Ph.D. thesis L. Karp, Vector fields on manifolds, Thesis, New York Univ., 1976. on internet and his paper excerpted from his thesis is very brief and without any detailed proof. (I wonder that peers read the thesis or they trust to the advisor...

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Q: Resources/Reading Materials on PASA (optimal control theory)

Gab RomeroI am currently working on my undergraduate thesis, and my adviser suggested that I look into a Polyhedral Active Set Algorithm (PASA) for my paper. I have been trying to find resources/materials on it online, but most of the papers I have seen and read unfortunately seem to be accessible only to ...

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Q: Eriksson's thesis "Strongly convergent games and Coxeter groups"

darij grinbergThe diamond lemma has recently come up in my teaching, and as always I've been looking for nice and simple applications. This has reminded me of the thesis Kimmo Eriksson, Strongly convergent games and Coxeter groups, KTH Stockholm 1993, which I have never been able to locate despite the existenc...

It seems that is one of those tags with plagiarized tag-info: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/10243/2018/8/18
 

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