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00:01
oh yeah. up to equivalence, exactly 14 of them. of course
you can move between most of them using some pretty natural operations/constructions, but i think its still open whether, if you don't "up to equivalence," you might still only be able to get finitely many norms out of a given norm and those operations.
just very normal stuff that people who aren't serial killers study as something other than an outlet to keep them from serial killing
maybe that's why Grothendieck pivoted
somewhere in france there's a house with 14 runaways buried under the driveway
14 is such a funny number for such a result
reminder it's the same as the number of sets you can obtain from a subset of a top. space by closure and complementation, but the two results have no formal analogy :)
I thought of that as well haha
I'm still amazed that this maximal number is achieve by a subset of $\mathbb{R}$
00:21
I'd be more surprised if it wasn't achievable, $\mathbb{R}$ is big
but it's not like I ever verified the example or have any intuition for it
$\mathbb{R}$ is big, but it's also nice
hmm, I don't feel like maximizing the number is a pathological sort of behavior, but at the same time I lack intuition
I'm studying the famous change of variable formula. The proof is, to say the least, long and convoluted. At one point Folland has proven an inequality for a function $G$ which is a $C^1$ diffeomorphism and then goes that we can simply replace $G$ with $T^{-1}\circ G$, where $T\in GL(n,\mathbb R)$ (the general linear group). I don't know why this is possible, but I suspect that $T^{-1}\circ G$ is also a $C^1$ diffeomorphism. Is that correct?
(A $C^1$ diffeomorphism in this case is a function from $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R^n$ which is $C^1$, injective and the Jacobian is invertible for all $x\in\Omega$.)
@Thorgott me too
I wonder if there's any result quantifying 'how many' subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ achieve the maximal amount
00:24
(the intuition part)
exciting new research venues
@Jakobian do you happen to know if there's any result on how generic Kuratowski 14-sets (in $\mathbb{R}$) are?
00:52
psie: yes. you should either (a) be able to prove that post-composition with an invertible linear map preserves being "a C^1 diffeomorphism" [if you care about what that is, using whatever definitions you have of those things], or (b) take it as part of an assumed true background that is not the subject of discussion
more generally, you should prove that (c) invertible linear maps are $C^1$-diffeos and that (d) the composition of two $C^1$-diffeos is a $C^1$-diffeo :)
the degree to which you care about stuff like this should be a function of what you plan on doing with it. e.g. more, if you plan on using multidimensional changes of variable with maps that might have all sorts of irregularities, or less, if you plan on just understanding the vibe of the theorem in cases that do not put pressure on what exact set of hypotheses you have
ben's point (d) would be a very good exercise if you care
neither (c) nor (d) are very difficult; perhaps this is worth pointing out
they are exercises in the definition and basic facts about derivatives
Ok, I guess the chain rule is key here.
And the definition of the inverse of a composition.
 
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02:30
@Thorgott I don't
 
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11:06
Kuratowski 14-set problem is algebraic in nature. There is not much papers in general topology about it
Not only that but the notion of being a generic set is not always a precisely defined concept. This means that such problems don't really have much research going into them
understandable, thanks anyway
12:17
What is the justification behind $y\mapsto D_yG$ being continuous if $G$ is $C^1$? Here $D_yG$ is the Jacobian at $y$. I know a vector-valued function is continuous iff all its entries are. Do we have to identify $\mathbb R^{m\times n}$ with $\mathbb R^{mn}$ (the former being the space of all $m\times n$ matrices and the latter simply $mn$ copies of $\mathbb R$) in order to justify continuity of $y\mapsto D_yG$?
@psie what we "have to" and what we can are totally different matters. But yes, entries of $D_y G$ will be partial derivatives of $G$
@Jakobian Ok. That $\mathbb R^{m\times n}$ and $\mathbb R^{mn}$ are isomorphic seems to be an "advanced" statement (of course, that's subjective), but I feel it is hard to understand, hence why I was asking.
Advanced? It's essentially trivial!
It's obvious that these are isomorphic as vector spaces, and you already proved that all norms on finite dimensional spaces are equivalent.
If you even define the topologies here via norms
Ok, I have to simply accept it then. Maybe not advanced, but I'm looking at FIS's Linear Algebra (Friedberg, Insel and Spence) and it requires quite some definitions and theorems to finally get at. In their book, I think it follows as a corollary to the theorem that states if $V,W$ are finite dimensional, then $V$ is isomorphic to $W$ iff $\mathrm{dim}(V)=\mathrm{dim}(W)$.
Psie, sit down and write down an isomorphism.
12:29
Ok :)
12:40
Even if we use the statement you quoted, it's not "advanced", it's usually the main point of the first chapter on vector spaces: vector spaces have bases, dimension is the size of the basis, vector spaces of the same dimension are isomorphic.
I think you should have basic understanding of this when you study multivariate analysis.
Or rather not "vector spaces of the same dimension are isomorphic" but "a vector space of dimension $n$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$", maybe without saying these words
13:22
@VladimirLysikov Vector spaces over the same field of the same dimension are isomorphic.
I know :)
This is in responce to above
 
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14:23
even that is kind of overselling the difficulty, you can explicitly write down the isomorphism with ease
15:02
@Ben you really should post your HA questions on MO instead of MSE
15:17
@psie in the case m = n = 2 could you convince yourself that the map sending [[a,b],[c,d]] to [a,b,c,d] is a vector space isomorphism? this is the kind of statement you are talking about. it reflects the fact that the addition and scalar multiplication in both spaces are defined 'entrywise.' i.e. it is right out of definitions, no theory.
theory maybe provides the background thing, that "all that is going on" is dimension counting, which removes the apparent arbitrariness of my choice of how to rewrite a matrix as one row of numbers. the map sending [[a,b],[c,d]] to [a,c,b,d] would also be an isomorphism for example.
How can I express in symbols the proposition "each neighborhood of $x$ contains infinite points of the set $E$"? I am working in $\mathbb{R}^n$, so if we denote $B_r(x)$ a neighborhood of $x$ with radius $r>0$, I was thinking about "for each $r>0$ there exists $A_r \subseteq E$ such that $|A_r|=+\infty$ and $A_r \subseteq B_r (x)$". Is this correct?
15:32
frieren: looks OK to me. depending on your purpose you could simplify that a little, e.g. for all r > 0 one has |E intersect B_r(x)|= infty. there is no need to introduce a separate A_r because such a set A_r will exist if and only if the set E intersect B_r(x) has the same property.
but your formulation is also fine, it captures the necessary information.
16:19
hi
@leslietownes how's munchkin doing with inequalities?
16:35
@Frieren "neighborhood of x with radius r>0", I don't think such concept exists
@think_meaning_builds in 12 angry men, do u think the kid is innocent or guilty
i think the uncertainty is 1 or 2%, which is high
16:53
@Jakobian Thanks for answer. Aren't in $\mathbb{R}$^n$ neighborhoods defined as open balls with the Euclidean metric?
@Frieren No, those are only some of the neighborhoods
The definition is that $U$ is a neighborhood of $x$ if $x\in \text{int}(U)$
alternatively we can speak of open neighborhoods at which point the definition reduces to $x\in U$
thats why the proper concept is that of a closed or open ball in a metric space
you want to speak one of those when you discuss $B_r(x)$
@Jakobian i was thinking along the lines of $B_{2^{-1}}(q_n)$ actually but I did not think of the lebesgue measure thing, but that seems way clean approach :thumbs up:
@nickbros123 Do note that if $D\subseteq X$ is dense and $r > 0$ is fixed then $B(x, r)$ for $x\in D$ still cover $X$. The point of this example was to see what happens when $r$ is not fixed
The important thing to notice here is $x\in B(y, r) \iff y\in B(x, r)$
Density says that every neighborhood of $x\in X$ contains an element of $D$. This is the same as, for every $r > 0$ and $x\in X$ there is $y\in D$ with $y\in B(x, r)$, or, $x\in B(y, r)$.
In other words, for every $r > 0$, $\bigcup_{y\in D} B(y, r) = X$
So you can see this is equivalent to density of $D$
This actually makes me curious. Call $D$ strongly dense in $X$ if for every function $r:X\to (0, \infty)$, $\bigcup_{y\in D} B(y, r(y)) = X$. Characterize this in some way
@nickbros123 exercise for you
I already know
17:20
@RyderRude I really couldn't say, since they keep bringing in new facts throughout the movie. What I can be sure of is how biased people can be when they bring in their own personal prejudices into a situation like this.
Can anyone suggest a good book which covers singular points (cusp, nodes, conjugate points) in detail?
17:45
@think_meaning_builds not a lot of math these days but she is very sensitive to the idea that someone might be getting better treatment than she is. she came third place in a costume contest yesterday, and boy did i hear about it.
18:15
@Thorgott I should, yeah
I guess I feel some anxiety about posting on MO
I did too, but then my stupid question about a Prop. in HTT got 12 upvotes
my approach so far has been to post on MSE, wait a day or two, then take it to MO
except that I haven't had to do the latter so far
unless Daniël swings around to answer it tonight I'll bring it to MO
with something like your most recent question, i think the only people on MSE who see it and are capable of responding would also be on MO. i do generally understand wanting to maintain a kind of separation between 'thinking out loud'/MSE and 'serious stuff'/MO, but i would think of that as a self imposed constraint and maybe one at odds with getting a quick answer to questions like that
yeah, all the active MSE users in this tag are also on MO, but you get a lot of additional traffic on the latter
fair points, fair points
I'll take it over there in a bit
18:23
also, what's with all the fancy questions. do you think you're better than me?
let me put it like this: not understanding difficult mathematics is easy :)
you "higher" people aren't the boss of me, you can say "higher" all you want. you're not. i'm higher.
at our uni, there's a lecture called "higher probability theory", which I've always found really funny
is it a seminar where they debate which, of two events, is the more probable? all of you stoners out there may want to "light up" for this one.
wagering on the outcome of a sporting event is an exercise in higher probability theory
19:04
site is in only-read mode but a lot of people are editing/commenting
how is this possible?
site is in read-only mode?
that's just for you, sine. the mods got together and decided that enough was enough. :)
more seriously the site seems to be operating normally for me.
yeah, for me too
there's this big banner about how "Sine of the Time is gone forever" and "a new era is upon us." i assume that's part of the usual experience
maybe it's a (drumroll) sine of the times
something strange is going on
remember my profile picture issue from yesterday
@BenSteffan yes
Site under parasite attack
can it be a virus in my computer?
a virus that specifically blocks your access to MSE by pretending as if the site was read-only?
I mean technically...
maybe someone is playing a very elaborate prank on you
19:12
only Math.SE
@SoumikMukherjee this is the day we realize that MSE was just a collective hallucination
@SineoftheTime what is the 6th site in the HNQ?
other communities work fine
you could try asking on meta
maybe there's some kind of ddos protection or something on the other end, where someone within your family of IP addresses is antagonizing MSE and you're caught up in the response.
19:14
@SoumikMukherjee this ?
In incognito mode it does not seem read only mode
Yes that
@BenSteffan :0
@Ben proposition (I think): if $K\times\Delta^1\rightarrow\mathbf{Cat}_{\infty}$ is a natural transformation of diagrams that is object-wise fully faithful, then the induced functor on limits is fully faithful
19:29
sounds reasonable
I think I need this to see a claim that Lurie describes as "follows immediately from the definitions"
I've asked on meta
19:51
I'm reading a proof of the change of variables formula for a $C^1$ diffeomorphism $G$ in Folland, that is $$\int_{G(\Omega)}f(x)\,dx=\int_\Omega f\circ G(x)|\det D_xG|\,dx.$$There's a statement I struggle with. Let $Q=\{x:\|x-a\|\leq h\}$, i.e. a cube of side length $2h$ in $\mathbb R^n$ since $\|\cdot\|$ is the $\max$-norm. Divide this cube into subcubes $Q_1,\ldots,Q_N$ of side length at most $\delta>0$ and with centers $x_1,\ldots,x_N$.
Folland derives the following inequality $$m(G(Q))\leq (1+\epsilon)\sum_1^N |\det D_{x_j}G|m(Q_j)$$and then he claims that $\sum_1^N |\det D_{x_j}G|\chi_{Q_j}(x)$, the function whose integral is the sum above, tends uniformly on $Q$ to $|\det D_xG|$ as $\delta\to0$ because of continuity of $D_xG$. This is Theorem 2.47 on page 75. If someone could explain how $\sum_1^N |\det D_{x_j}G|\chi_{Q_j}(x)\to |\det D_xG|$ uniformly as $\delta\to0$, I'd be very very grateful.
20:15
I think it has to do with uniform continuity of $D_xG$ on $Q$, a compact set. This allows us to get a uniform bound on $Q$ of $||\det D_yG|-|\det D_xG||<\epsilon$ for all $x,y\in Q$. And then something something... (I'm thinking)
yeah, that is correct
well, you won't get a bound like that for all x and y in Q. given e, you'll get d so that no matter how x and y are chosen within Q, if |x - y| < d [which is far more restrictive than x and y being in Q], you'll have |det(D_x G) - det(D_y G)| < e. so if the only term mattering to that sum is within delta of x_j, okay yes, please finish that thought.
then use that $x$ is contained in exactly one $Q_i$ and then $|x-x_i|<\delta$
what thorgott is saying.
if you have some development of the riemann integral in R^n that is also very close to a rephrasing of what is driving all of this. i'm not sure if folland bothers with that.
i don't mean to be rude, but many of these questions about folland have something in common, which is folland very much assuming a reader to be OK with relying on this kind of reasoning to not derail some broader point of what he is doing, and it seems like maybe you are still more concerned with fundamentals, in which case i'd recommend R^1 before R^n and something other than folland before folland.
i forget if rudin's PMA takes the riemann integral in R^n seriously, you could very much derive what folland is using from that. i just don't remember if he does that.
folland's introductory section refers to PMA almost as if this stuff should be in there, although i'm not convinced that it actually is.
folland is super slippery about how much linear algebra he is assuming, haha. "a bit of linear algebra - actually, not much beyond the definitions of vector spaces, linear mappings, and determinants." ooookay.
20:34
@leslietownes Folland says the uniform convergence of the function should follow from the continuity of $D_xG$, but we are also using the continuity of the determinant here, right?
Jul 9, 2023 at 4:21, by leslie townes
the showstopping number "There's No Trick To This, It's Just This One Little Trick"
20:59
@PM2Ring I've solved the issue
Let $K \subset R^n$ be a closed set and $f : K \to R$ a continuous function. I wanna show that given a closed set $C \subset R$, its preimage under f ($f^{-1}(C)$) is a closed set as well. Im trying to prove that $R^n-f^{-1}(C)$ is open
I've arrived at the following but can't seem to go on: $$ M:=R^n-f^{-1}(C) \Rightarrow M-K$$ is open since K is closed and $M-K \subseteq M$
that means I can find an open ball of radius $r>0$ around $x^{\ast} \in M-K \subseteq M$
@SineoftheTime Oh, good. But I thought you (& future readera) might like a bit of background info on that glitch.
but then I realized that maybe I only need to take a point $x \in M$ and not $M-K$ since its image will be $\in C^{c}$ which is open since $C$ is closed
@PM2Ring yes, Thank you for the links
the question turned out to be a duplicate, so I deleted it
well I'm stuck here
21:14
@SineoftheTime Fair enough. Maybe post a comment on one of those Meta Stack Exchange posts, so the devs know it's still happening.
maybe I can use the fact that the preimage of $\mathbb{R}-C$ is an open set
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Q: Continuity $\iff$ Preimage is closed whenever set is closed

Arturo don JuanI'm trying to do the following: Prove that a function $f : S\rightarrow T$ between two topological spaces is continuous iff $f^{-1}(C)$ is closed whenever $C\subset T$ is closed. To show that the closed-set relationship implies continuity, notice that $T-C$ is open. The preimage of this ope...

wait: is this correct since $f^{-1}(R-C)+f^{-1}(C) = K$ then $f^{-1}(C)$ must be closed?
@PM2Ring ok :)
@SineoftheTime I don't think I'm allowed to look at the solution online ahahha
I mean, I could since this is just from the exercise sheet but it feels wrong
@SineoftheTime last reasoning is wrong right?
21:23
@Claudio let's not think about "asking people in chatrooms" :)
the last reasoning is indeed wrong
oh my bad, completely forgot I won't anymore :P
@BenSteffan My mind is telling me it is correct hahaha
But I know it is not
I mean, you haven't really presented an argument as to why what you wrote should imply $f^{-1}(C)$ is closed so
I was thinking that its boundary in $K$ is contained in it
maybe you were, but you weren't arguing that this is true
But the sum of the two must be $K$?
21:29
does it? you tell me :)
why form the sum to begin with
No, I only know about continuity, the function should be biijective probably
why would bijectivity matter
the preimage of the codomain is the domain?
no wait that's wrong too
$f^{-1}(\Bbb R\setminus C)=K\setminus f^{-1}(C)$
try to see if this is correct in general
wait maybe I'm already done: $B:=f^{-1}(\mathbb{R} - C) \subset A:=(\mathbb{R}^n - f^{-1}(C))$ so I can find a ball of radius $\epsilon$ contained in $B \subset A$ and I'm done
@SineoftheTime Oh I didn't see the message, sorry
maybe I should start using $\setminus $ instead of $-$
21:41
I've seen authors use both \ and -
yeah, they're both fairly common
but using $\setminus$ will lead to fewer temptations to write a $+$ somewhere it shouldn't belong ;)
ah ok I thought I was comitting a sacrilegious act for a moment
@BenSteffan hahah, I'll keep using setminus then
@SineoftheTime I feel like your last equality is trivial, but then you would'nt be suggesting me to prove this to be true :)
the answers to this question do in fact say that the equality is true directly from the how a function from $A \to B$ is defined
at your level one might still ask for an argument
after all, if this identity is really that trivial, then you shouldn't have struggled to come up with a proof here ;)
@Claudio why does it feel trivial? Is it always true that $f^{-1}(A\setminus B)=f^{-1}(A)\setminus f^{-1}(B)$ ?
21:58
Oh I see, that's where I need to use the continuity hyp
uhh
[doubt]
It's not always true for continuous maps
I'm loosing track of what I'm trying to show :p
@Claudio this question
it solves your problems
Oh not continuity, I guess injectivity since the arrows can't mix things from the two sets
22:07
what?
f must be one-to-one for that equality to be true
if that equality holds, then I can just use this $\text{ open set }=f^{-1}( \mathbb{R} \setminus C)=K \setminus f^{-1}(C) \subset R^{n} \setminus f^{-1}(C) $
@think_meaning_builds yes. i think the movie wants to establish the latter
sku
sku
22:51
for set C = {x in R, x < 1/x}, I then assumed x^2 < 1 and came to conclusion -1 < x < 1 and inf(C) = -1. But if I had just kept x < 1/x, then inf(C) does not exist. why this weirdness?
$x^2 < 1$ is not equivalent to $x < 1 / x$, so there's no reason to be surprised
also your set $C$ is not actually well-defined, for a start
@Claudio If $f:X\to Y$ and $A,B \subseteq Y$, then it's not true that $f^{-1}(A\setminus B)=f^{-1}(A)\setminus f^{-1}(B)$. But if $A=Y$, the equality holds hence $f^{-1}(A\setminus B)=f^{-1}(A)\setminus f^{-1}(B)=X\setminus f^{-1}(B)$
So you're not using continuity or injectivity, this is a general result about maps
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darn. True. I need to look at sign of x before multiplying by x on both sides. thanks. may I ask why C is not well defined?
what happens if $x = 0$? :)
Flashbacks of a conversation of a couple of weeks ago
23:11
there was a man who tried to invert 0 once and his ring died. sad story :(
23:32
@SineoftheTime I see, in the end I did look at the solution written by my professor: it was much easier: $f^{-1}(C)$ is closed by assumption therefore $f^{-1}(\bar{C})$ is open but $f^{-1}(\bar{C}) = \overline{f^{-1}(C)}$, thus $f^{-1}(C)$ is closed by def
bruh moment
...but this uses what sine told you above
How is $f^{-1}(C)$ closed by assumption ?
you suppose it I guess
...that's what you're supposed to show though?
Sure, if I assume what I want to show is true then it will be true :)
23:35
lol wait
Maybe you're confusing the other direction
what you want to say is $f^{-1}(\bar{C})$ is open since $\bar{C}$ is open and take it from there
oh yeah
my direction is proved via sequences
yeah the solution uses the other definition of closedness
But I didn't even consider it to begin with
it's commonly used in analysis
but yes one usually does not think about it the first times
sigh
my brain is like mashed potatoes rn
23:43
I'm hungry
brain eating day was yesterday I'm afraid
skull emoji
@BenSteffan I had the terrible idea of looking at your profile, I took a quick look at your questions, then I looked at my question, and now I feel even more defeated hahaha
haha :P
23:46
There is no uniformly continuous homeomorphism between $\mathbb{R}$ and the open interval $(0,1)$, right?
don't, I've been at this whole mathematics thing for quite a while :P
@DannyuNDos what's $I$?
also I've ended up in an area of mathematics that has many big words
@BenSteffan Sorry about that, I didn't mean that.
$I = [0,1]$, so it's not even homeomorphic to the open interval.
@BenSteffan you're still in time to leave the dark side :)
@SineoftheTime why would I
23:48
we have unlimited power >:)
we as algebraic topologists?
homotopy theorists, more specifically
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Q: Uniformly continuous homeomorphism from open set to $\mathbb{R}^n$.

Stephen DedalusLet $U \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be an open set. Suppose that the map $h:U \to \mathbb{R}^n$ is a homeomorphism from $U$ onto $\mathbb{R}^n$, which is uniformly continuous. Prove $U = \mathbb{R}^n$. My first attempt guided by intuition was to look at covering $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ by balls of radius $=\f...

Thanks!
23:51
for some reason I read that as "unironically continuous" and chuckled
That said, I just noticed that a homeomorphism being uniformly continuous doesn't suffice. Its inverse must also be uniformly continous.
$\tanh$ is uniform continuous, but $\mathrm{arctanh}$ isn't.
(Suck it, LaTeX.)

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