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12:03 AM
the group of unramified characters is isomorphic to $\Bbb C^\times$
 
is it still open then?
 
oh lol, you're asking if it's open, for some reason I thought about compact, lol.
yes, it is open, basically because $U$ is compact
 
why does compact imply open?
 
$1 \to U \to F^\times \to F^\times/U \to 1$, so $1 \to \mathrm{Hom}(F^\times/U,\Bbb C^\times) \to \mathrm{Hom}(F^\times,\Bbb C^\times) \to \mathrm{Hom}(U,\Bbb C^\times) \to 1$
 
I mean, I can see that $F^\times/U$ is discrete
so it's ok
 
12:10 AM
because $U$ is compact, even profinite, we get that $\mathrm{Hom}(U,\Bbb C^\times)=\mathrm{Hom}(U,S^1)$ is discrete
you can also just use the definition of the compact-open topology directly
the set $X=\{z \in \Bbb C^\times \mid |z| < 1\}$ does not contain any nontrivial subgroup
so if you consider the continuous maps that map $U$ into $X$ is an open set of the set of continuous maps $F^\times \to \Bbb C^\times$
but if you intersect that with homomorphisms $F^\times \to \Bbb C^\times$, then you get the unramified characters
 
I never understood the compact-open topology
like I don't see at all why it's the right topology
Here's a peculiar Sorting Algorithm
 
it's the right topology because it makes currying work (for nice spaces, i.e. locally compact Hausdorff)
and also makes Pontryagin duality work
 
maybe I should try proving that locally-compact-hausdorff-spaces is CCC right
 
what is ccc?
 
cartesian-closed-category
 
12:20 AM
ah
I was thinking about cartesian-closed, but didn't know where the third c should come from
@LeakyNun did you know that there is a O(1) sorting algorithm?
 
O(1) time or O(1) space?
 
is this a trick question?
 
it's not a serious algorithm, it's quantum bogosort
1. Quantumly randomise the list, such that there is no way of knowing what order the list is in until it is observed. This will divide the universe into O(n!) universes; however, the division has no cost, as it happens constantly anyway.
2. If the list is not sorted, destroy the universe. (This operation is left as an exercise to the reader.)
3. All remaining universes contain lists which are sorted.
 
given $f \in \operatorname{Hom}(X,Y)$ and $x \in X$ and $f(x) \in V \subseteq Y$, now $f$ is open so $f^{-1}(V) \subseteq X$ is open. Pick $x \in U \subseteq C \subseteq f^{-1}(V)$ with $U$ open and $C$ compact, then I think $C$ and $V$ should be what I want...
@MatheinBoulomenos nice
 
12:43 AM
@MatheinBoulomenos I didn't use Hausdorff though?
oh no I used Hausdorff when I inherited local compactness to an open subset
thanks
 
1:32 AM
$\theta(t) := \displaystyle \sum_{n \in \Bbb Z} e^{-\pi n^2 t^2}$
$\theta(1/t) = t \theta(t)$
 
Isa
Does someone know if this this pair of differential equations have a name, I mean that if they are somehow important in mathematics $(1-x^2)y''-xy'+n^2y=0$ and $(1-x^2)y''-3xy'+n(n+2)y=0$ ?
 
So, random thought/question: Are there magmas out there which are strange enough that you couldn't possibly have a real world system which said magma represents the behavior of?
 
1:48 AM
@Rithaniel I think that's impossible to answer. How exactly does a magma represent the behavior of a real-world system?
 
Hmmm, fair enough. I suppose it's not necessarily defined in all cases. Though, I was thinking about dihedral groups, and how they represent the symmetries of a polygon.
Or perhaps how the quaternions have been used to represent rotations in 3D computer simulations.
 
I'm no philosopher, but I think if you choose a really big cardinal $\kappa$, then I don't think a group like $\Bbb Z^{\kappa}$ or $\Bbb R^{\kappa}$ represents any real world behavior unless you believe in some platonic realm of ideas
physicists always seem to model the universe as manifolds, so if we accept that, there are some severe cardinality restrictions on what groups can represent "real world behavior"
 
Okay, there is a distinction I would make between "cardinality restrictions" and "structure restrictions," in that case.
Though, it's really hard to describe what I mean when I say "structure"
Like, I would want say "it's the way the magma elements link together under the magma operation" in more clear and rigorous terms, but I don't know even how to start describing that.
 
2:43 AM
it took me a lot longer than I thought it would to write a sum of divisors function...
 
 
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7:55 AM
@LeakyNun Yes, the standard example is PA+not(Con(PA))
 
 
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8:56 AM
I think if I am going to figure out the pattern that governs scientific breakthroughs, I might need to research the creativity theory literature
because the nature of creativity and serendipity are key to the emergence of scientific breakthroughs, the most well known process where an unknown unknown becomes a known via scientific investigation
(meanwhile the spiritual and religious counterpart is known as mystical experiences and divination)
I wonder... is there a mathematics to creativity, given that creativity is ultimately an inductive process which needs input ideas in order to churn out a new idea?
 
9:15 AM
@AlessandroCodenotti but it doesn't prove itself inconsistent
it proves PA inconsistent
 
9:32 AM
@LeakyNun but if it proves PA inconsistent, then it also proves that PA+not(Con(PA)) is inconsistent
 
oh right
hmm...
this is trippy
 
logic is so weird
 
Let $(R,\mathscr T)$ is finite compliment topology. How do I prove it lindelof? My attempt: Let $\{U_{\alpha}:\alpha \in \Lambda\}$ be an open cover. We know that any $\alpha \in \Lambda$. Let $\mathscr \setminus U_{\alpha}=\{x_1,x_2,...,x_n \}$. Then we can choose opens sets from $\{U_{\alpha}:\alpha \in \Lambda\}$ containing $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$. Let it be $U_{\alpha_1}, U_{\alpha_2},..., U_{\alpha_n}$.
Hence required countable subcover is $\{U_\alpha, U_{\alpha_1}, U_{\alpha_2},..., U_{\alpha_n}\}$
 
@Mathgeek isn't it compact
 
$(R,\mathscr T)$ is Lindeloff
 
9:40 AM
it's even compact
as you yourself proved
 
Yes. from my proof it is compact also
 
great
 
@LeakyNun why
Is my proof logically correct?
 
yes
 
Thank you.
 
9:42 AM
@MatheinBoulomenos this is one instance where the nonempty axiom of topology might be more convenient...?
 
I don't know what you're referring to
 
the proof above @MatheinBoulomenos
that the cofinite topology is lindelof
 
okay, but what "nonempty axiom"?
 
the (highly controversial) axiom that topological spaces needs to be nonempty
 
I never heard about that
that's silly
so the inital object in the category of schemes is not a topological space?
oh and the forgetful functor from Top to Set has no longer a left or right adjoint
I don't see any reason why you would want that
I think that the empty space should not be seen as connected
but it should be a topological space
I also don't see how it is related to the proof
 
9:56 AM
@MatheinBoulomenos well it definitely used that
where he let $\alpha \in \Lambda$
 
the empty space is trivially Lindelöf
 
yes but he didn't say that
 
he just assumed that the space is nonempty
and I'm arguing that with this axiom you don't need to divide into two cases
 
so the only reason for that axiom is that you don't have to point out trivialities for pedantic people?
and for that you mess up all kind of categorical properties of commonly used categories such as Top or Sch
seems not worth it
 
9:59 AM
what if I want the dimension of a manifold to be well defined
I don't know, there are certainly people who want metric spaces and topological spaces to be nonempty
and I'm sure they have their own valid reasons
 
but it would be very weird for algebraic geometry
 
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A: Why are metric spaces non-empty?

Qiaochu YuanRudin doesn't require that a metric space be non-empty. I agree that there is no good reason for a convention which says otherwise. For example, for those of you who are convinced by such reasons, we want subspaces of metrizable spaces to be metrizable.

 
if the empty scheme doesn't exist, then fiber products in Sch don't always exist
so a whole lot of definitions and proofs in alg geo don't anymore, since they depend on the existence of fiber products
 
what about topologists who... don't care about algebraic geometry?
I don't know
 
it can't be that bad to write "non-empty" when you want it
 
10:04 AM
in our topology course in imperial they require the space be nonempty
I assume it's a tradition and not invented by our lecturer (so there's no point interrogating the lecturer)
 
I'm not convinced
 
I know you're not
but it's a thing
some people require spaces to be nonempty
call them senile if you like
 
I don't want to insult people with a different convention or opinion
 
I found the word "non-empty" in the 2011 lecture notes, confirming my hypothesis
 
I stand by my point that this convention messes up a whole lot of things and has no advantage
 
10:13 AM
ok
 
topologists use pullbacks as well and they can give you an empty space from non-empty spaces
 
 
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11:32 AM
Hey, $x^\dagger x=\langle x,x\rangle$ is always real, yeah?
Right, yes
If $A^\dagger=A$, then is $x^\dagger Ax$ real?
Ah yeah I see it
I just needed to write this down somewhere rather than holding it in my head
Ignore me
I need to get used to the $\langle x\rvert A\lvert x\rangle$ notation, I'm watching a video series on quantum mechanics and the different notation is confusing me
But when I write it as $x^\dagger Ax$ I can see immediately that it's real
Also the eigenvalues of $A$ are real because if $x$ is an eigenvector of $A$ then the eigenvalue is $\dfrac{\langle x|A|x\rangle}{\langle x|x\rangle}$
(aka $\dfrac{x^\dagger Ax}{x^\dagger x}$)
Also if $x$ and $y$ are different eigenvectors then $\langle x|A|y\rangle$ equals both $\lambda_x\langle x|y\rangle$ and $\lambda_y\langle x|y\rangle$, so either $\lambda_x=\lambda_y$ or $\langle x|y\rangle=0$
Arright I'm getting the hang of this bra/ket thing
 
11:55 AM
Some more practice with the notation
If $U$ is unitary ($U\dagger U=I$) and $x$ is an eigenvector, then
$\langle x|U|x\rangle=\langle x|Ux\rangle=\lambda\langle x|x\rangle$
but also $\langle x|U|x\rangle=\langle U^\dagger x|x\rangle=\langle U^{-1}x|x\rangle= \langle\lambda^{-1}x|x\rangle=\overline{\lambda^{-1}}\langle x|x\rangle$
Thus $|\lambda|=1$
 
12:22 PM
honeestly I don't see the point of bra/ket notation
 
12:34 PM
@LeakyNun algebraic topologists like their categories to have initial objects... so +1 for having empty topological spaces
 
@loch it's not just initial objects, you also don't have all pullbacks if you only consider non-empty spaces
 
yeah
i guess for people who don't work categorically this is probably a minor issue, but to people who do it's much more convenient
 
what are some interesting conjectures about numbers summing to primes?
 
I mean even if you don't work categorically, don't you sometimes just take a pullback when you work with e.g. fiber bundles?
 
I know that two even numbers can't sum to a prime and likewise two odd numbers can't sum to primes, so that leaves summing odds and evens
 
12:49 PM
I mean I think you can probably phrase most things just fine without stating the notion of a categorical pullback!
 
yeah I know, you can just define it explicitly, but I mean that you can't guarantee that it's non-empty
 
for fiber bundles I don't think this problem even exists?
 
$\displaystyle \int_{\Bbb Z_p \setminus \{0\}} |x|^\sigma \mathrm d\mu_{\Bbb Q_p^\times} (x) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \int_{p^n \Bbb Z_p \setminus p^{n+1} \Bbb Z_p} |x|^\sigma \mathrm d\mu_{\Bbb Q_p^\times} (x) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty (p^{-n})^\sigma = (1-p^{-\sigma})^{-1}$
 
what is the probability that an odd number plus an even number, in a given range is odd?
 
12:56 PM
yes
 
@LeakyNun yeah for locally profinite groups you basically always reduce integrals to actual sums, we did this a lot in the proofs for local Langlands for GL(2)
 
Hi @Balarka
 
Hi @Alessandro
 
How are you?
 
Not bad. What about you?
 
1:07 PM
Hi @Balarka @Alessandro
 
Hi @Mathei
 
Hey @Mathein!
 
I'm doing too much algebraic geometry for my taste :P
 
Yikes
 
@Balarka I envy you
Indian food is so good
 
1:08 PM
I saw some questions about forms on blowups yesterday, but didn't look carefully enough. What was it?
@Mathein Hah, you tried some recently?
 
Just computing a sheaf of differentials and its support
 
@Balarka today actually, but I had it before
 
Gotcha. The blowdown map is an isomorphism of sheaves away from the exceptional divisor, of course. Forms near the exceptional divisors are forms on $\mathcal{O}_{\Bbb P^1}(-1)$ compactly supported on the fibers of $\mathcal{O}_{\Bbb P^1}(-1) \to \Bbb P^1$.
I guess I don't know how explicitly you want that.
 
We haven't really talked about divisors, but loch already convinced me that the sheaf of differentials should only be supported on the preimage of the origin, since the map is an isomorphism away from it
 
*relative differentials!
 
1:14 PM
Woops
Are there non relative differentials?
 
What are relative differentials?
 
i guess most things are defined relatively in algebraic geometry..
 
I like how one of us asked what are non relative differentials and the other asked what are relative differentials in two consecutive messages
 
idk algebro geometric lingo
 
but thinking about usual differentials (say in DG) = relative differentials over a point
 
1:17 PM
Apparently the relative viewpoint of working in the category of schemes over a base scheme is a prominent one. I don't really know why though, it's just something I've been told
 
@BalarkaSen it's basically the differentials along the fibers of your map
 
I actually only know the definition of $\Omega_{X/Y}$ in the affine case, I never checked that things patch correctly
 
@loch Say I'm working with $\Bbb C$. You mean germs of differential forms compactly supported along a specific fiber?
Oh I guess these are holomorphic differential forms not smooth. I don't know what that is
 
In the general case if you have a morphism $f:X\to Y$ you can look at $\Delta:X\to X\times_Y X$ and the sheaf $\mathscr I=\ker(\mathcal O_{X\times_Y X}\to\Delta_\ast\mathcal O_X)$ and then define $\Omega_{X/Y}$ as $\Delta^\ast(\mathscr I/\mathscr I^2)$
 
@BalarkaSen I mean the differentials on $X$ mod out by pullback of differentials on $Y$ !
 
1:21 PM
@loch Ah, ok, so $0 \to \Omega_Y \to \Omega_X \to \Omega_{X/Y} \to 0$
 
Yeah
except sometimes this is not exact on the left

but that's the idea
 
Then you can check that if $V$ is an open affine in $Y$ and $U\subseteq f^{-1}(V)$ is open affine in $X$ then $\Omega_{X/Y}$ restricts to the module of Kähler differentials on $U$
 
I see.
 
the way i think of it is that working over a base scheme is essentially working with "families" - so for example a morphism $X\rightarrow Y$ is smooth is basically saying that all your fibers are smooth varieties (+ some more conditions)

so in particular even if $X$ and $Y$ can be singular, $X\rightarrow Y$ can be smooth
 
That makes sense
 
1:24 PM
@loch What does applying the section functor and computing the derived functors compute? Surely not the cohomology of the fibers.
 
@BalarkaSen you mean what is $H^i(X, \Omega_{X/Y})$ ?
 
Right.
 
@loch I don't understand Tate's thesis, it just looks like a bunch of symbols to me
maybe I'm just too hungry
 
I guess I can ask this smoothly as well. If I have a fiber bundle with compact fiber and base, look at the subcomplex of differential forms tangent to the fibers.
What is the cohomology of this complex?
 
hmmm I'm not sure
 
1:28 PM
@LeakyNun isn't every written text just a bunch of symbols
 
technically
 
I remember it seemed very neat, but it's not clear to me where the significance is (probably @MatheinBoulomenos would know)

perhaps it's historically the first place where adeles etc. are introduced?
 
@loch nope, adeles were introduced earlier
they were invented by Chevalley to give the first algebraic proof for global CFT
 
TIL
 
the significance is an adelic proof of the meromorphic continuation of zeta right
 
1:31 PM
yeah and functional equation
 
So after all this fancy abstract nonsense I have an exercise plagued by ugly calculations which is giving me an headache
 
it is the first time that someone has used harmonic analysis to prove results on L-functions, this was certainly part of the motivation for Langlands
also Tate's adelic proofs were much more elegant than Hecke's orginal proofs
 
so we can... do analysis on adeles?
 
yeah
it's kind of ironic that Chevalley introduced adeles to get rid of analysis in the proofs for CFT and then people took that concept to do ... analysis with it
 
I'm looking at $X=\mathrm{Spec} A$ with $A=\Bbb C[x,y]/(xy^2-x^2-y^2+x)$ and the projection $X\to\mathrm{Spec}\Bbb C[x]$. If I didn't mess up with basic algebra $X$ has two singular points, corresponding to $(x,y)=(1,\pm 1)$. I'm now asked to compute the fibers over $(x)$ and $(x-1)$
 
1:39 PM
the idea to do analysis on adeles (or more precisely on the adelic points of an algebraic group over a global field, but that's a nitpick) is very fundamental for automorphic forms etc.
computing the fiber over $(x)$ seems simple unless I'm missing something: it's just $\Bbb{C}[x]/(x) \otimes_{\Bbb C[x]} \Bbb C [x,y]/(xy^2-x^2-y^2+x)= \Bbb C[y]/(y^2)$
 
So for example over $(x)$ the fiber is $\mathrm{Spec}(A\otimes_{\Bbb C[x]}\Bbb C)$
Oh, derp, I was confused by how $x$ acts on $\Bbb C$, but it's clear if you just tensor first and quotient by $(x)$ later
 
writing $A \otimes_{\Bbb C[x]} \Bbb C$ is really confusing for exactly that reason
 
Yeah I got myself confused there
Well the other fiber then should be $\mathrm{Spec}(\Bbb C[x]/(x-1)\otimes_{\Bbb C[x]} A)$ which seems to be $\mathrm{Spec}\Bbb C[x,y]$ to me
 
yeah seems right
 
So the former fiber is zero dimensional and not reduced, while the latter fiber is two dimensional and reduced
 
2:02 PM
To show that $X$ is not irreducible I just factored $xy^2-x^2-y^2+x$ as $(x-1)(y^2-x)$ but I feel there should be a better approach
 
idk, that seems like a good approach
 
2:57 PM
Hey, is anyone here? I have a question regarding estimating of definite integral.
 
?
 
wait, i am typing the equations
if $ f'(x) $ is given and with some initial condition like $f(a) = c$
then I have to estimate $$ \int_{a}^{b} f(x) dx $$
In the question, $ f'(x) $ is a non-integrable function.
 
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Q: Simpler Proof for the Special Case

user193319 Suppose $1 \le p < \infty$ and $f_n ,f \in L^p[0,1]$. If $f_n \to f$ almost everywhere, then prove that $||f_n-f||_p \to 0$ iff $||f_n||_p \to ||f||_p$. The above problem does not come the real analysis text I am using as a reference (Real Analysis by Royden & Fitzpatrick). However, in that ...

 
@Secret are you there?
 
more information is needed, is $f'$ bounded?, if not, its area may diverge. Is $f'$ non integrable because there is a nonintegrable singularity?
also are you talking about numerically integrate this definite integral or want some exact procedure?
 
3:15 PM
imgur.com/a/VCsV0EB here is the question, just give me a hint
I have studied only estimation of integral when the functions are given, integrable or non-integrable.
 
ok, so you are not talking about more technical types of non integrability:
 
I dont know about them, yet.
 
The first thing to observe is that the initial condition means that you are integrating the right half of the function $f'$ (this can be show easily by plotting a graph of $f'$, and noting how it is an odd function)
Since anything $x > 0$ is positive, and your integration range is from 1/2 to 1, it means the definite integral hence the area under the curve must be positive
This means the smallest value $m$ can be must be zero
 
yup,
okay.
 
as for M, I think you need the asymptotic behaviour of $f'$ which I don't know how I can e.g. get rid of the sin dependence
but M has to be positive
 
3:27 PM
there are no options in the question for , $ m = 0$
 
3:37 PM
$f'$ is positive on the interval, so $f$ is monotonic, hence the integral is bounded above by $f(1)/2$. Using the MVT, this is equal to $f'(\xi)/4$ for some $\xi\in(1/2,1)$. Then you just need to estimate $f'$ with the most trivial bounds and this will yield one $M$ as in the options. I'm not sure about the corresponding $m$ though.
 
what 'this' refers to?
in second sentence
 
$\frac{f(1)}{2}=\frac{1}{4}\frac{f(1)-f(1/2)}{1-1/2}=\frac{f'(\xi)}{4}$
 
from where $ 1/4 $ came?
 
The denominators need to match, so $\frac{1}{2}=\frac{1}{4}\cdot2=\frac{1}{4}\frac{1}{1/2}=\frac{1}{4}\frac{1}{1-1/‌​2}$
 
Could you please give me some reference(any book, article) where the author discuss this particular class of problems [ I mean, "this" class of approximation} ?
 
3:49 PM
It's better than an approximation, we actually have equality there. The result is known as the Mean Value Theorem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_value_theorem
 
Indeed, I know that. But I have no idea why you put $f(1)/2$ there.
I just know the $\frac {f(1) - f(1/2)}{1-1/2} = f'(c) $ part.
 
Oh, sorry for misunderstanding. This is the standard approximation $\int_a^bf\le(b-a)\lVert f\rVert_{\infty}$, which is a direct consequence of the monotony of the integral. In this case $\lVert f\Vert_{\infty}=f(1)$, because the function is monotonic.
 
I have no idea what you are talking about, I am just a high school student.
I dont know that normalization symbol( I dont even know, what is that called in analysis)
 
4:04 PM
It's called the supremum norm, but I'll try to simplify by assuming $f$ is continuous. I assume you know that the integral is monotone; i.e. that if $f(x)\le g(x)$ for all $x\in[a,b]$, then we have $\int_a^bf\le\int_a^bg$. This should be intuitive if you think of the integral as (signed) area under a graph.
Now let $F$ be the maximum value of $f$ on $[a,b]$ (that this value exists is not trivial, but I will take it for granted). Then we have $f(x)\le F$ for all $x\in[a,b]$, so monotony gives us $\int_a^bf\le\int_a^bF=(b-a)F$ since $F$ is a constant.
In this particular case, $f$ is monotone, so its maximum value on the interval $[1/2,1]$ will simply be its value at the right-most point, that is $f(1)$.
 
fine.
 
4:17 PM
I thought you were typing further. haha
 
That is all the reasoning behind the inequality $\int_{1/2}^1f\le\frac{f(1)}{2}$. Intuitively, youre just approximating the graph of the function by a big enough rectangle. If you want me to elaborate on a part, just ask.
 
i know that part, but I dont know how to do the question.
 
4:42 PM
Does anyone know Hatcher's convention(s) about homotopies between paths? Do the endpoints have to stay fixed throughout the homotopy?
 
Why don't you read the definition in Hatcher's book itself? It's surely written
 
$<x-yz,xz-y^2>=I $ any idea on how to show that it is not prime?
 
4:57 PM
As an ideal in which ring?
 
im trying to show that the K/I is not integral domain K{X,Y,Z]
an*
my reasoning is now every polynomial in the ideal is zero
the class zero*
$x-yz=0$ ,$xz-y^2=0$ -> $Y((Z^2-Y)=0$ if it was an integral domain means Y=0 or $Z^2-Y=0$
 
That seems pretty airtight to me.
 
thats where im stuck . proving that those 2 do not exist inside the ideal might be hard
 
Not terribly hard. You can reason on degree---for any linear combination of the two polynomials, every monomial will either have y-degree 2 (because of the second polynomial generating the ideal), or will have both y and z present (because of the first polynomial), so y by itself can't be a linear combination
 
ohh i can use contradiction
ohh
thanks
 
5:06 PM
You can do a similar thing for $z^2 - y$ too I believe
 
hmm i dont see it using the degree argument
u cant have z degree of 2 without a X acommpaning it
accompaning*
sorry for my english hehe
 
Well, it could be a y rather than an x, but I agree.
 
5:24 PM
any one is online right now
 
6:21 PM
what is the analogue of Riemann-Lebesgue lemma for locally-compact-Hausdorff-abelian-groups?
 
Towards a predicative infinity: Attempt 1:
Define the axiom $a < b \not\iff af < bf$ for any $a,b,f$
Define the axiom $1 < c < 2$
Let $S$ be the usual successor operator.
Want for any $n \in \Bbb{N}$ (here $\Bbb{N}$ is not known whether it is a set) such that $S^n(0) < 5c$
the challenge now is how to express $c$ as a computable encoding of the natural numbers
 
6:51 PM
What are some mathematical objects that can be represented as points in a space?
 
@Ultradark maximal ideals of ring A are (closed) points of Spec(A), the spectrum of A
hi @AkivaWeinberger
 
@Ultradark If you have a physical system, you can look at the configuration space (or state space) of all configurations of the system
The set of paths between two points can be thought of as an infinite-dimensional manifold
$m\times n$ matrices live in an $mn$-dimensional space
 
I'm assuming you can look at only a finite set of those paths and reduce the dimension of the manifold?
 
Yeah
Like the set of paths that are made of $n$ straight lines
The set of continuous functions on $[0,1]$ has a metric space structure (the supremum norm)
(The distance between $f$ and $g$ is $\sup|f-g|$)
(Notice that it can never be infinite, and that it's zero iff $f=g$)
The set of compact metric spaces can be given a metric as well. I forget exactly how
 
7:09 PM
It's Saint Patrick's day today
So I made this diagram of a Celtic knot
 
7:22 PM
can polynomials be represented as points?
single variable polynomials that is
I guess that would be a sort of function space
 
is there a fast way to find real roots of sparse polynomials? In my case the polys have exactly 4 non-zero terms and exactly 2 real roots. I am currently using bpaste.net/show/b8d27ccc46d0 numpy but it is very slow
 
7:55 PM
@Ultradark Well, $n$-degree polynomials can be thought of as points in $\Bbb R^{n+1}$
 
8:35 PM
Suppose $U \subseteq X$ is an open, path-connected subset such that the inclusion induced map $\pi_1(U) \to pi_1(X)$ is trivial. Suppose I have paths $\eta_1$ and $\eta_2$ are paths in $U$ with the same starting and ending point such that $\iota \eta_1 \simeq \iota \eta_2$. Hatcher claims that $\eta_1$ and $\eta_2$ are path homotopic in $U$. Why is that?
 
8:46 PM
any chance anyone can take a look at my question ? math.stackexchange.com/questions/3150359/…
 
9:03 PM
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Q: Constructing a Universal Cover--Proving Injectivity

user193319Here is a quote from Hatcher's Algebraic Topology: Given a set $U \in \mathcal{U}$ and a path $\gamma$ in $X$ from $x_0$ to a point in $U$, let $$U_{[\gamma]} = \{[ \gamma \cdot \eta ] \mid \eta \text{ is a path in } U \text{ with } \eta (0) = \gamma (1) \}$$ As the notation indicates, $U_{[\...

 
9:27 PM
Im confused why here prof says (4^k-1)/3 , no idea why he added the /3 .
 
recall how geometric series work.
 
9:42 PM
@Semiclassical yeah it says 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑎0 × 𝑟^n
 
that's the nth term of a geometric series
 
But that doesnt help :/ , for ek = 4ek−1 + 5
 
the point is not what the terms are, but what the sums are
for a geometric series
 
Yeah so i got to the point where it is. 4^k(2) + 5*(4^k-1) + ... + 5*(4^k-k) + 5
how would i apply geometric series here?
 
1+4+4^2+...+4^(k-1)
is a geometric series
 
9:48 PM
so its 5*4^k for a0 * r^n ?
 
What is the formula for a geometric series?
 
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