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12:00
so I have a parametric line and a point. I want to have the span of them; is there a general way? my line does not pass through origin
@VincenzoOliva I don't think it got read by many people anyway. It had like 10 comments of which something like 8 were really just hidden links meant to improve search scores for various companies.
hi guys, out of curiosity
say I have a sequence in a normed vector space which is cauchy
say $x_n$
since the vector of the point is linearly independent to the lin, I thought of using the span of the point and the directive vector of the line. But seems weird
why can I draw a subsequence $y_n$ such that $ d(y_{n+1},y_n) < 2^{-n}$?
I'm sure I can get there using the definition of cauchy sequence
given $\forall epsilon \exists N$ s.t. $\forall m,n \geq N d(x_n,x_m) < \epsilon$
12:07
@Secret Ahh, neat. I didn't know they had archived the posts
I suppose I can do this construction by induction
for $\epsilon = 1$ there's an $N$ such that for all $m,n \geq N$ I have $d(x_m,x_n) < 1$
@user8469759 Yeah, just pick the epsilon suitably small and pick something like $y_n = x_N$
ok but I don't know why
I struggle with rigorous details
can you please help me to work out all the construction if there's any?
12:09
@user8469759 Pick for each $n$ an $N_n$ (the subscript is just so we can see it depends on $n$ such that this is your $N$ for $\varepsilon = 2^{-n}$.
@Secret Nice!
12:37
> Proof: Let $B\subseteq X$ be a subset and assume that $B$ does not have a smallest element. Let $A=X∖B$. We need to show that $A=X$ and thus by assumption it is enough to show that if $x\in X$ and $y \in A$ for all $y<x$ then $x\in A$. But if $y\in A$ for all $y<x$ then $x$ cannot be in $B$, since it would then be the smallest element in $B$ (since all strictly smaller elements are not in $B$), and thus $x\in A$ as we needed.
But what if $A=X∖B$ is done in the middle and thus $B$ is a disjoint union of two subets, one where $y \in A, z \in B, y < z$ and $y \in A, w \in B, w < y$, then even for all $y < x$, $x$ can still be somewhere in the portion of $B$ that is smaller than all elements of $A$, or it is sufficient that we only need to pick one such $A$ and $B$ such that the required result is shown?
12:52
To be checked: $\{0,1\}\times \Bbb{N}$ under the lexicographic order is order isomorphic to $\omega^2$
13:05
Proof: Let $f$ be a map such that $(0,0)\mapsto 0$ and the recursive definition $(0,n)\mapsto n,\forall n \in \Bbb{N}$. In addition $(1,0)\mapsto \omega$ and recursively defined, $(n,0)\mapsto \omega n, n\in \Bbb{N}$. We can now check that $\forall n,n',m,m' \in \Bbb{N},\omega m + n < \omega m' + n'$ if $m < m'$ or $(m = m'$ and $n < n'$. We also see the only elements without predecessors are $0,\omega n$, corresponds to $(n,0), n\in \Bbb{N}$
(almost forgot) therefore the ordering is preserved by $f$ and is bijective, hence $f$ is an order isomorphism between $\{0,1\}\times \Bbb{N}$ and $\omega^2$
By generalisation, $\{0,1,...,n\} \times \Bbb{N}$ will be order isomorpic to $\omega^n$ and $\Bbb{N}\times \Bbb{N}$ to $\omega^{\omega}$
o wait, maybe not...
$$\{n,\omega n, \omega^{n+1}, \omega^{\omega}(n+1), \omega^{\omega+n}, \omega^{\omega n}, \omega^{\omega^n}, \omega^{\omega^{\omega}n},\omega^{\omega^{\omega +n}},\omega^{\omega^{\omega n}},\omega^{\omega^{\omega^n}},...\}$$
$$\{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,...\}$$
Therefore $\Bbb{N}^2$ is order isomorphic to $\epsilon_0$
13:48
Hey @TedShifrin I'm having trouble with something which should be very basic... Say I have an ample line bundle $L$ on an $n$-dimensional complex manifold $M$, and $c_1(M)=(n+1)c_1(L)$ (as far as I'm concerned you may even assume $K_M=L^{-(n+1)}$). Now I want to find that $H^k(M,L)=0$ for every $k>0$. The obvious thing to use is Kodaira vanishing, right: $H^k(M,K_X\otimes L)=0$ for every $k>0$. But I cannot seem to relate this to $H^k(M,L)$, just (by Serre duality) to $H^k(M,L^{-1})$!
In particular, I cannot seem to make sense out of the following:
@robjohn hey. How is it going?
Everything is easy/clear until "[...] and $K_M-L=-(n+2)L$ is negative, so $H^k(M,L)=0$"?!?!?!?! @TedShifrin
I must be missing something simple.
"so =0 if k>0 by Kodaira vanishing."
makes me wish I understood what Kodaira was
Kodaira was a famous complex geometer; he proved a famous "vanishing theorem" for sheaf cohomology groups; the above is one special case.
Now, I finally see how ordinal tetration really works, and how the exponential tower of ordinal really grows:

$$\{+,*,*,*, ...,*,*,*, ...\}$$
$$\{0,n; \omega, (\omega)^n; \omega^{\omega}, \left(\omega^{\omega}\right)^n; \omega^{\omega^{\omega}}, \left(\omega^{\omega^{\omega}}\right)^n, ..., \epsilon_0,\epsilon_0^n; \epsilon_0^{\omega},...\}$$
That means $"{}^{\omega+1}\omega" = \epsilon_0^2, "{}^{\omega 2}\omega" = \epsilon_0^{\omega}$
$"{}^{\omega (n+1)} \omega" = \epsilon_0^{\omega n}, "{}^{\omega^2} \omega" = \epsilon_0^{\omega^2}, "{}^{\omega^n} \omega" = \epsilon_0^{\omega^n}, "{}^{{}^{2}\omega} \omega" = \epsilon_0^{\omega^{\omega}}, "{}^{{}^{n}\omega} \omega" = \epsilon_0^{{}^{n}\omega},"{}^{{}^{\omega}\omega} \omega" = \epsilon_0^{\epsilon_0},"\omega [5] n" = {}^{n}\epsilon_0,,"\omega [5] \omega" = \epsilon_1$
14:12
@Waiting pretty good. How about you?
@robjohn Glad to hear that. I'm writing up the solution to a problem from my project. It's almost done.
@robjohn these days are hot here, I barely can work on it.
$"\omega [n+4]\omega = \epsilon_n"$
And finally:
$"\omega [\omega] \omega = \epsilon_{\omega}"$

$\omega [\alpha] \omega = \epsilon_{\alpha}"$

So, the arithmetic of ordinal exponentiation. (In particular the result $(\omega^{\omega})^{\omega^{\omega}} = \omega^{\omega\omega^{\omega}} = \omega^{\omega^{\omega}}$) convert all hyperoperations in terms of exponential towers of the epsilon numbers
@Waiting It's been in the 100s here and when its down in the 80s, the humidity is around 50%. All in all, it's pretty miserable.
and from this we can finally answer the question. The smallest fixed point of arbitrary ordinal hyperoperation: $\omega[\alpha]\omega=\alpha$ when $\alpha = \zeta_0$
@robjohn I see. Something unpleasant happens with the weather all over. I never met such hot days here, hard to bear.
14:20
@Semiclassical The only thing by Kodaira that I know is his embedding theorem. That gives a nice condition for when a complex projective manifold can be embedded in $\Bbb {CP}^n$ for some $n$ (this is a sort-of-Whitney in the complex category).
Actually I think there are several equivalent conditions for when it's possible.
Danu would know about those
The embedding theorem uses, and is harder than, the vanishing theorem. It tells you that if you have a positive line bundle (i.e. a holomorphic line bundle whose first Chern class can be represented by a real (1,1)-form $\alpha$ such that $-i\alpha(v,\bar v)>0$ for every tangent vector $v$), then $X$ embeds into a projective space.
The condition on the form just means that it is given by $\alpha(-,-)=b(J-,-)$, where $J$ is the complex structure and $b$ is a positive definite, symmetric bilinear form
(think: fundamental form)
I suppose it's not obvious why this condition implies the line bundle has as many section as we want to embed it in CP^n?
Or maybe one would look at some iterated tensor product of that line bundle and sections of that chap.
(I know embarrassingly little of this)
@BalarkaSen Positive implying ample is what you need to prove, yeah
14:33
Gotcha. The definition of positivity I saw used the Chern connection but I don't really get that condition either.
14:57
Hmm, I think I recall Kodaira vanishing being a special case (the characteristic zero one to be precise) of Kempfs vanishing theorem. I just can never remember how to formulate that in terms of the geometric objects
Kodaira vanishing for non-experts: What happens to how confident you are about a subject as soon as Kodaira is mentioned. :>
@Tobias yeah it probably has a sheaf cohomological equivalent
@BalarkaSen I only know it in terms of induced representations
oh
hides back into his mousehole
There is a connection between the induced functors of induction from $B$ to $G$ and cohomology of certain associated line bundles on $G/B$.
Ahh, no, Kodaira implies Kempf in characteristic $0$
15:11
actually nvm, what I just said about tetration makes no sense
@Secret You seemed to be claiming that $\{0,1\}\times\mathbb{N}$ was order isomorphic to $\omega^2$ when really it is $\omega + \omega$.
Hi chat
uh, I am thinking about enumerating the elements of the set like so:
Each subsequent row is larger than the previous:

(0,0) < (0,1) < (0,2) < ... < (0,n) ...
(1,0) < (1,1) < (1,2) < ... < (1,n) ...
...
(n,0) < (n,1) < (n,2) < ... < (n,n) ...
...

Is this how the lexicographical ordering works in $\{0,1\} \times \Bbb{N}$ ?
@Secret Yes
Wait, no, because that is not $\{0,1\}\times \mathbb{N}$, it is $\mathbb{N}\times\mathbb{N}$.
which is indeed $\omega^2$
you only get the first two rows for $\{0,1\}\times\mathbb{N}$.
Ah I see
@TobiasKildetoft Btw, I also have question about your induction proof in your blog post previously. Basically the question boils down to whether it is legal to take $B$ as a set made of the disjoint union of two sets $B1$ and $B2$ such that $"B1 < A < B2"$ (i.e. all elements in each set has the relation as shown), because if I did that, then my $x$ can avoid becoming the smallest element of $B$ since it could well be located in $B1$?
15:21
@Secret I am not sure which part you are referring to
> Proof: Let $B\subseteq X$ be a subset and assume that $B$ does not have a smallest element. Let $A=X∖B$. We need to show that $A=X$ and thus by assumption it is enough to show that if $x\in X$ and $y \in A$ for all $y<x$ then $x\in A$. But if $y\in A$ for all $y<x$ then $x$ cannot be in $B$, since it would then be the smallest element in $B$ (since all strictly smaller elements are not in $B$), and thus $x\in A$ as we needed.
(above inline is excerpt from your blog post)
@Secret I am not sure what the sets $B1$ and $B2$ would have to do with this.
So if I pick $A$ such that it is "sandwiched between" $B$, then I cannot necessary conclude that x cannot be in B because otherwise it will be the smallest element of B
Like this
Because the proof only said $B \subseteq A$, it does not said whether you can allow $B$ to be "disconnected"
@Secret I don't see why being connected is relevant.
If $B$ is a set shown in the bottom rectangle, then when $x \in X, y \in A$ for all $y < x$, $x$ can still be in $B$ (by being present at the lower portion of the set $B$) and thus will not be the smallest element of $B$
15:30
@Secret $x$ is picked arbitrarily
Ohh wait, it is not
I don't see where you want to pick $x$ in that picture
The ordering of the set is smallest to largest from left to right, I can pick $x$ in the left portion of $B$ since all $y \in A$ only need to satisfy $y < x$
@Secret But if $x$ is in the left most part that not all $y\in A$ satisfy that
Suppose $G$ is a nonabelian group of order $6$ in which every element has order $3$. Is this a contradiction; does it, perhaps, imply that $G$ is abelian? Obviously it implies that every cyclic subgroup is normal, but I can't draw any further implications. I am trying to obtain a contradiction.
Ah right, I see
@user193319 Note that any two subgroups of order $3$ will either be identical or intersect in only the identity element
(actually, it is also a standard exercise to show that a group of even order has an element of order $2$).
15:36
The identity element does not have order 3 :P
@TobiasKildetoft Ah. Obviously if they all only intersect at the identity, then this would contradict the order of $G$.
@SteamyRoot You are right: I should have said all cyclic groups with nonidentity generator.
It's order divides 3 though @SteamyRoot
That's a rather vacuous statement, @Astyx, its order divides any positive integer
@TobiasKildetoft And if only two groups overlap, then we get a similar contradiction. But if three cyclic groups overlap, this is consistent with $G$'s order, right? I don't see how to get a general contradiction.
Any thoughts?
@SteamyRoot Well if it divides three and it's not three, then it's ....
15:54
@Astyx I don't see what you're getting at. All I did was point out that the original statement was flawed, because every group has an element that does not have order 3.
@user193319 I don't see what you're getting at here, and what you mean with "overlap"
Tobias mentioned that subgroups of order 3 either intersect in the identity, or are identical.
So, if $a$ has order $3$, then $a$ belongs to the subgroup $\{1,a,a^2\}$. If $b$ is another element in the group, not $1$, $a$ or $a^2$, then $b$ belongs to the subgroup $\{1,b,b^2\}$.
@SteamyRoot Sorry. I should have used "coincide" or "equal." I think I figured it out: as I already said, if none of the cyclic groups coincide, then $G$ will be forced to have 10 elements, contradicting the fact that it has 6. If only two coincide, we get a similar contradiction. Now, if 3 or more of the cyclic groups coincide, then at least one of the 5 elements has to be an identity element, which contradicts the fact that none of them are.
Hence, if $G$ is a nonabelian group of order $6$, there must be at least one element of order $2$.
I think you're making this way harder than it should be, but fair enough.
Also, a more general statement is given by Cauchy's theorem: if $F$ is a finite group and a prime $p$ divides the order of $F$, then $F$ contains an element of order $p$.
Oh shoot...but how do I know that that element of order $2$ forms a nonnormal subgroup...That's ultimately what I am trying to prove. Here is the original problem I am working with: Prove that every nonabelian group of order 6 has a nonnormal subgroup of order 2.
@Danu: One way Kodaira vanishing is stated is that $H^q(M,L)=0$ for $q<n$ when $L$ is negative.
(I mean, there's usually $H^q(M,\Omega^p(L))$ with $p+q<n$.)
Let's keep $L$ to be positive. Then by Serre duality that's just saying $H^{n-k}(M,L^{-1})=H^k(M,K_X\otimes L)=0$ for $k>0$
Are you saying I should take $\mathcal L=K_X\otimes L^{-1}$ as my negative line bundle, and write $H^{n-k}(M,\mathcal L)=0$ for $k>0$? And then what? How do I get back to $H^k(M,L)$?
Oh, huh, I think I see now
So I say $H^{n-k}(M,\mathcal L)=0=H^k(M,K_M\otimes \mathcal L^{-1})=H^k(M,L)$
(I'm being sloppy about taking duals of the $H^k$ but whatever)
16:15
@user193319 If the subgroup of order $2$ is normal, show that the element of order $2$ commutes with everything
16:32
Hi all. Any ideas with this simple problem:
I have a set S = {2,3,...,2n}. How many 3 elements subsets A of S i can have of the form A={i,j,k} where difference between each element in A is >=2?
Can you not count 3-elements subsets of S such that at least one difference is <= 2? Does that get complicated quickly?
I guess.
hey guys, I'm trying to write an algorithm and I'm not sure how to go about it, I don't think it's a stackoverflow question because I don't need the answer in any particular language, I'm more looking for pseudocode
does that belong here?
@BalarkaSen i am not too sure. Is a direct counting difficult?
I mean if you count the complement, then the subsets are of the form {i, i+1, j}.
Those are easy to count, right?
@BalarkaSen yeah. They are \binom{2n-1}{2} right? So is the answer \binom{2n-1}{3}-\binom{2n-1}{2} something like that?
16:43
Yeah
Well, binom{2n, 3} minus binom{2n-1, 2}
Uhh no what you wrote is correct
How come binom{2n,3}?? Note S={2,3,...,2n}
Yeah S doesn't have 1
just noticed
@BalarkaSen This was simple. Thanks for the kind help bro :)
No problem.
I'm trying to populate a matrix with 1's and 0's, and I want to impose a constraint that puts a 1 only in a column with no 1's above it
so that I ensure the column sum is at most 1
how do I go about that?
16:50
@TedShifrin Is there anything more to "irreducible (analytic) variety" than essentially "connected manifold"? If so, they how do I understand why (apparently) if $M=V_1+V_2$ is reducible then $\int_M \omega=\int_{V_1}\omega+\int_{V_2}\omega$ for a top degree form?
@GFauxPas You pick a position in the column put a 1 in there and fill the rest with zeros. Shouldn't be hard, actually it's so easy that I don't think you were asking that, or am I wrong?
the row sums have to be 6
forgot to say its random
How big are the rows?
@Danu That sounds odd, since being irreducible is much stronger than being connected (there being no requirement that the two spaces be disjoint in the definition of irreducible).
let's say 24
16:57
@TobiasKildetoft Right. All the more reason for me to be confused :D
Do you know more?
@Danu I don't know anything about the analytic version
@BalarkaSen @ Looks like we are over counting. There is a problem with counting {i,i+1,j}. We can't have i=2n right?
17:15
@Danu: A variety needn't be a manifold, first of all, as it may be singular. But if it's reducible, the two components meet in something of codimension $\ge 1$ and hence the integral isn't affected by the overlap.
hm, looks like I want something called the "partition" of an integer
or a magic square?
is there a such thing as a magic rectangle?
@TedShifrin I know, that's why I said "essentially"...
Hmm, okay. That sounds plausible...
@GFauxPas Let (i,j) be the position in the matrix, where i represents the ith column an j represents the jth row. The value in that position is represented by V(i,j).
1. Start from the first column, that is; i = 0,
2. Generate a random number for j,
3. Check if the row of j isn't equal to 6, if it isn't set P(i, j) := 1, if it is move back to step 2,
4. Set other values of that column to 0,
5. Set i := i+1, and repeat the steps 2-5 until you're done.

A note: The row's length must be multiple of 6 .
The integral claim is obvious. You define integrals by integrating over the smooth locus, anyhow.
@TedShifrin (I don't know the basic theory when things are not smooth :P)
17:22
There's no big deal. You can read about it in G/H.
Yeah, I will start reading G/H as soon as I finish my thesis ;)
Algebraic geometry is #1 on the priority list
(besides my actual thesis I guess...)
can someone point me to a good article that lists every math involved in the field of Data Science? I have been refreshing undergrad stat lessons lately... it's been a decade and my brain have degraded so much :P
[Random]
Experiment: Left handed ordinals
\begin{align}
\text{Right handed} &&& \text{Left handed}\\
\alpha^{{}^{n}\alpha} = {}^{1+n}\alpha &&& \alpha^{{}^{n}\alpha} = {}^{1+n}\alpha\\
\omega+\omega\omega = \omega(1+\omega) = \omega^2 &&& \omega\omega+\omega = \omega(\omega+1) = \omega^2\\
\omega\omega^{\omega} = \omega^{1+\omega} = \omega^{\omega} &&& \omega^{\omega}\omega = \omega^{\omega+1} = \omega^{\omega}\\
\omega^{\epsilon_0} = {}^{1+\omega}\omega = \epsilon_0 &&& \epsilon_0^{\omega} = {}^{\omega+1}\omega =\epsilon_0\\
Details on implementation later. Expect a couple of ordinal identities will be borked when flipping from right handed to left handed (We can also see how in the usual ordinals, tetration is forced to be left tetration as the exponential tower can only grow on the right. Also see math.stackexchange.com/questions/2313576/… for another implementation of left tetration)
thanks a bunch @BucaHajdini :)
Hi Demonark. Aren't you in class?
17:32
actually, the two epsilons will be different $\epsilon_0 = \omega^{\omega^{⋰}}$ while $\epsilon_0' = {}_{{}_{⋰}\omega}\omega$ and thus $\epsilon_0' \geq \epsilon_0$
hi @Semiclassic and @skull
Hello @TedShifrin
Started preparing for the AoPS?
Likewise, for right handed (usual) ordinals, the tetration relation is defined as ${}^{n}\alpha=\alpha^{\alpha^{⋰^{\alpha}}}$ while for left handed ordinals, it is defined as ${}^{n}\alpha=\alpha^{⋰^{\alpha^{\alpha}}}$. Order of operations is left associative for the right handed ordinals and right associative for the left handed ordinals
For finite height, the exponential towers have identical appearance, but the value is different (or perhaps may be the same due to the properties of infinite ordinals). Therefore even the base case $\epsilon_0$ there will be two versions, one for the left and one for the right, contrary to how it is treated previously
17:37
No, @skull. I don't figure I need to prepare that much, and I don't have the book yet :) I'll get it when I get back from my drive to and from San Francisco.
Nice name, @MichelAngello. That's actually my brother-in-law's real name.
hi anon :)
hi chat
Hi Eric
People keep interrupting my lunch
Don't blame me!
17:45
It's very disconcerting
Get over it.
I just wanna have a peaceful day :(
Naïve boy :P
Eric is getting rekt by Ted
Every where I turn is unforgiving
17:49
I forgive you :P
Thank you skull
I certainly wouldn't call that "rekt."
typo:
\begin{align} \text{Right handed} &&& \text{Left handed}\\ \alpha^{{}^{n}\alpha} = {}^{n+1}\alpha &&& \alpha^{{}^{n}\alpha} = {}^{1+n}\alpha\\ \omega+\omega\omega = \omega(1+\omega) = \omega^2 &&& \omega\omega+\omega = (\omega+1)\omega = {}_{2}\omega\\ \omega\omega^{\omega} = \omega^{1+\omega} = \omega^{\omega} &&& {}_{\omega}\omega\omega = {}_{\omega+1}\omega = {}_{\omega}\omega\\ \omega^{\epsilon_0} = {}^{1+\omega}\omega = \epsilon_0 &&& \epsilon_0'^{\omega} = {}_{\omega+1}\omega =\epsilon_0'\\ \therefore \epsilon_0^{\omega} = {}^{\omega+1}\omega > \epsilon_0 &&& \there
Now that^ is #rekt!
17:53
\o @Danu
hate those timeout edits. Need to type agai
hi
typo ver 2:
\begin{align} \text{Right handed} &&& \text{Left handed}\\ m^{{}^{n}m} = {}^{n+1}m,({}^{n}\alpha)^{\alpha} = {}^{n+1}\alpha &&& \alpha^{{}^{n}\alpha} = {}^{1+n}\alpha\\ \omega+\omega\omega = \omega(1+\omega) = \omega^2 &&& \omega\omega+\omega = (\omega+1)\omega = {}_{2}\omega\\ \omega\omega^{\omega} = \omega^{1+\omega} = \omega^{\omega} &&& {}_{\omega}\omega\omega = {}_{\omega+1}\omega = {}_{\omega}\omega\\ \omega^{\epsilon_0} = {}^{1+\omega}\omega = \epsilon_0 &&& \epsilon_0'^{\omega} = {}_{\omega+1}\omega =\epsilon_0'\\ \therefore \epsilon_0^{\omega} = {}^{\omega+1
puts Secret on ignore
Hey @Ted, we don't have class today per se (also I just woke up)
There are some office hours but I haven't worked on the homework problems enough on my own yet so I'm not going
17:58
isn;'t someone giving a lecture ont he zeta function or something
True, but it's the second in a sequence, the first of which happened while I was out
@TedShifrin So if I have a complex manifold... Is it automatically an irreducible variety?
I guess the question is if a reducible variety can be a complex manifold
Yeah
What if it's disconnected
18:11
Let's assume connected
@Danu: Is it projective?
Not a priori, no
Then I don't know what it means to be a variety.
Right
You need to live somewhere to be cut out by analytic or polynomial functions.
18:12
I guess the entire space is trivially cut out by the empty collection of functions
Canonical example of a reducible variety is $xy = 0$
in $\Bbb A^2$
that's not a manifold
Right, a connected, reducible variety is always singular.
OK, coolbeans
Hi chat
Salut, @Astyx.
18:17
Quoi de neuf ?
Le film était bien en fin de compte ?
 
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19:25
What's your favourite method to find $\displaystyle \int \sec x \ \mathrm dx$?
Mathematica
4
lol
mine is to multiply top and bottom by sec(x) + tan(x)
I hope
19:40
@LeakyNun Any FLOSS maths software (i.e. not Mathematica)
20:17
In the same vein as @Danu, tables
@SteamyRoot First Last Out Something Something?
F L open source software?
21:10
hey @Ted
Hi chat!
O hai
haio
ohi @Dami
I have like 3 different books on diff geom, and all of them seem to use different notation for the same concepts.
^My feelings towards those textbook authors
@AkivaWeinberger Free/Libre Open Source Software :P
21:57
Why is it randomly French
Rip @Perturbative
I think the motto of the ISO is "Great things happen when the world agrees"
or something
Well, some people preferred "libre" instead of "free" because it's less likely to be confused with "you don't have to pay for it"
Wait what does 'free' mean here
Free software, freedom-respecting software, or software libre is computer software distributed under terms that allow the software users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute the software and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, not price: users, individually or collectively, are free to do what they want with it, including the freedom to redistribute the software free of charge, or to sell it, or charge for related services such as support or warranty for profit. The right to study and modify software entails availability of the...
22:00
On another note, another book which didn't want to make use of any topology whatsoever decided to call an open set a 'domain' (presumably just for luls)
Loring Tu?
@Perturbative at least each book was consistent with its own notation, I hope?
@Daminark Nah Tu's book called open sets, open sets I think, this was another book I picked up from my uni's library
@SteamyRoot Yeah they were, its just that converting notation back and forth is a pain :(
@SteamyRoot also, better acronym
@Perturbative I always thought "domain" means connected, open set
22:05
@Danu A nonempty open, connected set is sometimes called a region :^)
At least, that's terminology often used in complex analysis
@Danu I've never heard that definition before, but regardless the first mention of open set (that I've seen) in this book was on pg 196
@Daminark How's things going in your diff geo course?
It's going aight, we've done some stuff on parametrizations and the first fundamental form
I'm actually gonna work some on the pset right now
:P
Are there any standard programs or standards for modelling logic?
Have fun @Dami :p
Is there a function or method such that the rounding method changes along a range? E.g., from 0.0 (floor) ... 0.5 (round) ... 1.0 (ceil)
I don't know if that makes any sense or not. Hahah.
A more evenly distributed "weighting" of which side to round to.
22:13
@LucasTizma It could be done as a simple piecewise function. You would need to define your boundaries though.
Ya, I had thought of that. I was hoping for something more continuous rather than picking discrete intervals to switch methods.
@LucasTizma Rounding is by its nature not continuous. Depending on how you define boundaries you could make it nearly continuous for certain levels of precision.
I wonder if I could add a bias value or something to the input before rounding.
I've gotta go study for a test now, cheers everyone!
Hi/bye Perturbative
22:15
Yeah, I suppose that's what I meant. More-or-less continuous for reasonable precision.
Maybe something like -value...0.0...+value can be added along the range to coerce input one way or the other.
@LucasTizma The easiest way to do this would be to drop a level of precision from input to output.
Or perhaps I'm just overcomplicating things.
What do you mean?
@LucasTizma Input a number with precision to the tenth decimal, output with precision to the 8th decimal.
Ah I see.
@LucasTizma Depending on what impacts you want to have, you could use a bias value.
22:18
I'm displaying an approximate "time remaining" in minutes, disregarding the seconds. The problem is that I don't want it to do something like 0 min for the last 30 seconds.
@LucasTizma How precisely are you willing to display the minutes.
I guess realistically, I should only care when the minutes themselves change rather than rounding... So at 4:01 I would still show 5 min and at 0:01 I would still be showing 1 min.
So it's more of an upper bound.
@LucasTizma That should just be doable with a ceiling function.
Ya, sounds like it now that I think about it.
But, assuming a less trivial case, I imagine I could bias the rounding along the range if I really wanted more human-like rounding behavior.
I'll just use a ceiling function!
@TedShifrin I have the following SES of sheaves
22:30
I momentarily read that as SOS
It probably is SOS.
$0 \to \mathcal O_X \to \mathcal O_X\otimes L \to \mathcal O_Y \otimes L\to 0$, where $Y\subset X$ is a divisor and the first map is induced by multiplication by a section of the line bundle corresponding to the divisor
No, that's probably nto quite what I have
That isn't right unless the $L$ is very much related to the divisor $Y$.
yeah
it is
I wanted to omit unnecessary context
So you should start with $0\to \mathscr I_Y \to \mathscr O_X \to \mathscr O_Y\to 0$ and tensor with $L$.
22:33
So $Y$ is exactly defined by $Z(s)\cap X$ where $s$ is the section of $L$
OK.
I don't get the $\cap X$, though, @Danu. We're living on $X$.
So here $\mathcal O_Y$ should a priori at least be a sheaf on $X$. Huybrechts told me to think of it as just equivalence classes of sections of $\mathcal O_X$ up to holo sections that vanish along $Y$
Well, no, it's supported on $Y$. It's a sheaf on $X$, if you insist.
What do you mean by supported?
Your sentence you just typed is what my $\mathscr I_Y$ tells you. That's the ideal sheaf of $Y$ ... things vanishing on $Y$.
22:35
You mean it only has nonzero sections along $Y$?
The stalks of the sheaf off of $Y$ are all $0$.
Right, ideal sheaf
@TedShifrin yeah, right
OK. So then you can sort of mentally think of it as just the sheaf on $Y$
Yuppers.
OK, so I understood what's going on.
Neat
I suddenly need this stuff to understand some proof, that's why I've been asking all these questions today :P
So the punchline is that $\mathscr I_Y \cong \mathscr O_X(L^*)$, so tensoring with $L$ gives what you had.
22:36
Right
I guess I shouldn't use divisor notation with a bundle.
It's just a line bundle, so it's OK
I have a slightly pedantic question
So I have this line bundle $L$ with $\dim H^0=n+1$, and some basis $\{s_j\}$ of $H^0$. Now I have (by induction) an exact sequence $0\to \operatorname{span}(s_1,\dots,s_{k-1})\to H^0(X,L) \to H^0(X_{n-(k-1)},L)$. I now have some $X_{n-k}$ inside $X_{n-k+1}$ and I have also proven that the kernel of the restriction $H^0(X_{n-(k+1)},L)\to H^0(X_{n-k},L)$ is spanned by $s_k$. This makes it intuitively clear that I get the analogous sequence for $k$ (rather than $k-1$)
But I don't see how to precisely formalize it
I don't know what your $X_j$ are. You can have zillions of sections when $\dim X = 1$.
Could I write something like this: $0\to \operatorname{span}(s_1,\dots s_k)\to H^0(X,L) \to H^0(X_{n-(k-1)},L)/\operatorname{span}(s_k)$ is clearly exact, and the latter is precisely $H^0(X_{n-k},L)$?
Whoa Mauritania changed its flag three days ago
(I feel like there might be an overlap between people who like flags and people who like math)
22:52
@TedShifrin Ehm, things whose dimension goes down by one, as k goes up (so n-k is the dimension of $X_{n-k}$)
DogAteMy, my interest is flagging.
I love flag manifolds...
I know, @Danu, so I'm questioning the whole thing.
@TedShifrin ?
If I start on a curve, I can't go down very far.
Are you assuming $\dim X\ge n+1$?
I mean I can have yuge $n$.
22:53
$\dim X=n$, sorry for not clarifying
So $X=X_n$ basically in more harmonious notation
Are you assuming these sections form a regular sequence ... so that the divisors intersect transversely? Otherwise you're in trouble.
Yeah, everything nice
I thought I can take the basis $\{s_j\}$ to be like that, no? I just need them to be a basis of $H^0$, isn't that an open condition?
A priori, your linear system could have base points so that there's bad intersection of these things.
I mean... I don't think I need everything to be non-singular at this point
But I honestly don't know exactly what I'm doing. I'm just reading Kobayashi & Ochiai's paper and making sense out of it
I'm going to have to abandon you for a while. I'm having computer issues — due mostly to my own insistence on restoring my iPad. Everything's messed up.
Bye.
22:56
Oh, okay.
Cya, and good luck!
Never restore anything is the takeaway message!
23:08
Like monarchies
23:50
idk monarchies are okay
they generate more money than they consume, much like a good zoo exhibit
ah, i'm an hour late
@eyeballfrog, so you wondered what was wrong with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (for an ultrafinitist)
so FTA states that any integer can be factorised uniquely (up to order) into primes
but how do you know primes exist? since there are only a finite amount of primes
hmm
it seems I can prove that there exist primes
that there are an infinite number is a known proof, but I'm sure ultrafinitism as some problem with it
23:58
so you can have numbers which exist, (because they have enough "information density" to be written down and thought about), but the primes which divide them, are too large and cannot be written down as nicely, so do not exist in the ultrafinitist world
yeah
so take, (i think Euler's?) proof
but said primes are smaller than this number which exists
if it's OK for me to write down this number that exists, surely it's OK to write down smaller ones
finite primes $p_1, \dots, p_n$, then $p_1\cdotsp_n + 1$ is a new number, must have a prime divide it, and so a new prime $p_{n+1}$ exists
not exactly

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