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00:42
@MatheinBoulomenos hey
@EricSilva dark magic summoning ritual
holy shit it worked
I happened to open my phone browser
@EricSilva Consider $M$ a compact Riemannian manifold, and take $p\in M$, $\delta>0$ small. Consider $B_\delta(p)$. Given $\varepsilon>0$, is there a diffeomorphism $\phi$ of $M$ such that $\mu(M\setminus \phi(B_\delta(p)))<\varepsilon$?
00:47
Very lucky
where $\mu$ is Riemannian measure
@EricSilva I have a feeling the answer is "yes" and involves the cut locus.
I tend to believe this is true
Fuck I stepped in a gigantic snow slushy puddle kill me
@EricSilva Like if you just push the ball outwards you should get that result...
I guess you might run into the cut locus at different points
but make it a controlled expansion
then somehow smooth it out near the boundary
seems plausible
00:53
Things always get a little delicate when u might run into the cut locus I guess
I have to go on a date so I will not be responsive
@EricSilva But the cut locus has measure nollo
ok, cheers
01:05
Can somebody check this for me
If you have a differential form $ ydx +x^2dy $
then the integrating factor = $x^2 e^(1/x) $
$x^2 e^[1/x]$
No idea how to keep the entire 1/x raised
^{1/x}
Is that right though?
As in the integrating factor
$x^2e^{1/x}$
Just so I'm not sat here waiting for nothing is anybody trying it?
01:25
if i have a partial fraction : -24/(x+5)(x-3) and so i split them into A/x+5 and B/x-3

what do i do with the negative sign ? are they both -A and -B ?
am a bit confused what i do with it
01:40
To be pedantic, that is not a partial fraction. That is a rational function that you wish to rewrite by the method of partial fractions.
oh sorry thats the result from my long division
That being said, the basic idea is that you want to write $$\frac{-24}{(x+5)(x-3)} = \frac{p(x)}{x+5} + \frac{q(x)}{x-3},$$ where $p$ and $q$ are polynomials
and the functions on the right-hand side are "proper fractions"
which means that $p$ and $q$ are each of degree 1 (in this case)
thus $p(x) = \text{constant} = A$ and $q(x) = \text{constant} = B$
the fact that the constant on the left is $-24$ has no bearing on how you choose to represent the constants on the right---I mean, if you wanted, you could write $-A$ and $-B$ in the numerators, but then you have extra negative signs running around that you will have to deal with later
so if my result from division was:

2x+2 + (-24)/(x+5)(x-3) i should just split this the same i would if 24 was positive
again, I am looking only at the expression $$\frac{-24}{(x+5)(x-3)}.$$ This is an expression that can be decomposed into partial fractions. Do that, then plug it back into the more complicated expression that you are interested in.
@PVAL-inactive Is there an easy formula for $H_1 \Sigma(p,q,r)$ when $p,q,r$ are not necessarily pairwise coprime? It seems like I need to compute Seifert invariants and then take the determinant of the resulting matrix, which sucks. In particular $H_1 \Sigma(2,4,5)$ seems to be $\Bbb Z/5$ which I for whatever reason did not expect.
01:50
One of the fundamental techniques of mathematics is to take difficult, complicated problems, and break them into smaller, easier to handle problems.
02:12
@MikeMiller At some point I wrote a mathematica script which gave the intersection form of M(2,a,b) where M(2,a,b) is the smoothing of the (2,a,b) Milnor fiber. I think it's pretty easy to generalize to M(p,q,r), but I don't think I ever made that. There should be a way to compute H_1 directly, but I don't recall one.
I'm at least glad to hear it's not obvious
Milnor says its in Brieskorn's original paper.
@PVAL-inactive I glanced at his paper but didn't immediately find anything to that effect earlier. I'll look at Brieskorn's paper if I care enough.
I certainly have a script that does it for (2,q,r)
if you want it
I'll email it to you tomorrow.
02:28
Thanks
I just wanted to play with a couple examples for something so this probably won't be used much more than like four cases.
I was particularly interested in computing the htpy type of the plane field coming from the canonical contact structure on \Sigma(p,q,r). That's why I did all this.
There's better formulas for the signature without presenting the matrix apparently, but I didn't know them at the time.
I see. I wanted some examples with nontrivial homology and an irreducible $SU(2)$-representation to run an instanton spectral sequence on but that's probably too hard in any single example and there are too many irreducible representations.
well maybe unfortunately for you, the milnor fibers always have c_1=0
Otherwise they
d automatically have su2 reps iirc
sigma(2,4,5) already has 10 SU(2) irreps so I don't think they're going to come in short supply
far more than i expected.
The holy grail of circumvention is to come up with a statement such that there exists no bullshit or witty answers
02:45
hi @Antonios — you paged me?
oh it said you were in here
If that's not the case, I'm sorry haha.
It lies a lot.
whooops. sorry :-)
No big deal.
02:58
Pure deception
if the radius of the circle inscribed in the square is 1, what's the diameter of the little circle at the corner?
but there's a little space
at the corner
we can't just take the difference
03:07
@Twink All of the red dotted lines are radii of the circle so they all have length 1
@Twink nice name
well, he's right, there's that tiny corner there, need to think...
I was thinking about using similar triangles
and a rule of 3...
something like this
we know the masures of the big triangle
and one measure of the little triangle
which is $\sqrt{2}-1$ as you said
but I don't know if this is correct...
if that's correct the diameter is $\frac{\sqrt{2}-1}{\sqrt{2}+1}$
03:36
Ok I give up, this is too hard
This probably isn't the type of solution you are looking for, but If you think about it, the circle in the corner satisfies the parametric equation $r \cos(\theta) + r, r \sin(\theta) + r$ if the bottom left of the triangle is the origin. Because you know the diagonal you know one point on this circle, which gives you two equations and two unknowns. You could solve it that way.
04:21
Hello! I'd like somebody to hint at my mistakes. I rewrote the first expression as $a_03^0+a_13^1+a_23^2+a_33^3$ but I can't figure out what $a_0$ means here, I supposed tht it is -1, then added them up like this: $a_03^0+a_13^1+a_23^2+a_33^3=62$. But in the method of solution of the problem there is written: 'Note that: $46=1201_3$'. What does the index 3 mean here?
Base 3: $1*3^0+0*3^1+2*3^2+1*3^3=46$
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In other news: The above geometric problem inspired me to look up how geometric provers are implemented: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d525/…
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04:45
huh, that looks vaguely serpinski
 
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05:52
@MikeMiller
I want to talk to you are you here ?
Online but writing a lesson plan for tomorrow, what's up?
I was wondering do you know about topological K-theory?
Sure, what about it?
is it easier to calculate things in it than algebraic K-theory?
Oh god yeah, but they're rather unrelated objects. $K(X)$ is defined using vector bundles on a space $X$, which can often be determined in terms of cohomological information like characteristic classes, and is a cohomology theory itself so can be computed using cut-and-paste operations via Mayer-Vietoris. Then $K^{-1}(X)$ is defined as $K(\Sigma X)$, and all other values of $K^{-n}$ are determined by these.
$K_n(R)$ in algebraic K-theory is $\pi_n\left(BGL(R)^+\right)$, the homotopy groups of a complicated space arising from the classifying space of the group of automorphisms of $R^\infty$ (more or less) by a procedure called the Quillen plus construction which kills its fundamental group but doesn't change its homology. On the other hand, it wildly changes homotopy groups.
Homotopy groups of spaces are hard to calculate, period. There are methods nowadays (that I don't know much at all about) to calculate algberaic K-theory but they're much more complicated than asking to do the sort of cohomological things you need for $K(X)$.
the calculation of $K_n(\Bbb F_q)$, the algebraic K-theory groups of a finite field, was a 40-page paper by Quillen; $K_n(\Bbb Z)$ will probably always be an open question
06:12
oh nice
nice @MikeMiller thanks for the information
@MikeMiller can I ask you for some input on my thesis
I.e would you like to give it a read?
it is 20 pages so far
MS thesis
What’s it aboot
algebraic geometry
Ah, I can't right now and I don't think I have the time to commit to it. But feel free to send me a copy when it's finished and I can leisurely find time to read it :)
okay sounds good
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Q: GATE $2018$ - Probability question : The probability that one of them wins on the third trial is ____ .

Mithlesh Upadhyay Two people, $P$ and $Q$, decide to independently roll two identical dice, each with $6$ faces, numbered $1$ to $6$. The person with the lower number wins, In case of a tie, the roll the dice repeatedly until there is no tie. Define a trial as a throw of the dice by $P$ and $Q$. Assume that all...

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06:21
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I need tikz to draw a line of letters...
and, can mathjax does it so that a tower of exponentials don't stretch the screen...?
Also...
Please don't confuse modular arithmetic with division by zero, which has a very precise meaning
>
Macieks300
1 week ago
These kind of videos that are year 1 level are what you should've started with. Work your way towards the more complex stuff first. Also, the title is a little misleading; equivalence class of integers congruent to 0 is not really something most people picture when thinking about division by 0.
06:40
@Twink I got $3 - 2 \sqrt{2}$ for the radius and hence $6-4\sqrt{2}$ for the diameter
@Secret its easy. The side of the square is 2 cm.
Then the diagonal is $2\sqrt2$
But we need half of the diagonal which is $\sqrt 2$
Then the diameter of the cornered circle = $Diagonal - half diagonal - radius of large circle$
$= 2\sqrt 2 - \sqrt 2 - 1$
Do you agree @Secret?
@Abcd nope, you missed out that tiny corner like I do initially
Oh yeah!
06:55
So this is an example of a deceptively simply question that actually really test your understanding
I wish I can systemise questions of this type somehow, something about the proof strategy of this question seemed to follow a certain pattern...
and I am more interested in why the proof strategy of questions of this type are similar
Now consider the souped up version of the above question:
(where the zoom is implied to go forever)
The problem solving strategy is the same, but now it becomes a recursion relation
$$(\frac{1}{2}d_{n-1} - r_{n-1} - r_{n})^2 = 2r_n^2$$
where $d_{k}$ is the kth diagonal and $r_{k}$ is the kth radii
This simplifies to:
$$r_n^2 - r_n (2r_{n-1}+d_{n-1}) - (\frac{d_{n-1}}{2}+r_{n-1})^2 = 0$$
07:25
Hmm...
$(\sqrt{2} - 1)(\sqrt{2} +1) = 1$. Does the notion of conjugation exists for field extensions?
Other thoughts:
$$\begin{matrix} \cdot & a & b & c \\ a & a^2 & ab & ac \\ b & ba & b^2 & bc \\ c & ca & cb & c^1 \end{matrix}$$
off diagonal elements are entisymmetric if $xy=-yx$ for all $x,y \in \{a,b,c\}$
so that gives 3 equations that relates $a,b,c$
$ab=-ba$
$bc=-cb$
$ac=-ca$
While that basically means the anticommutator of all pairs must vanish, this seemed to be not efficient enough to determine whether given a polynomial that is squared, only the diagonal terms survive
However, if this is a field, then we quickly obtain the conditions: $ab=bc=ac=0$ which basically means one cannot have off diagonal terms in a multiplication all antisymmetric for a field (since a field has no zero divisors)
I am not sure however how to generalise the observation of $(a+b)(a-b) = a^2-b^2$ for all alternating polynomials with n terms, though
I need to figure out a good way on determining the condition when two polynomials of degree n are multiplied together, where the cross terms will be cancelled without computing all $n^2$ terms in the multiplication
08:36
Hi,
Let $P\in\mathbb Z[x]$, $\text{deg}(P)>1$.
Is it true that : $\forall n\in\mathbb N^*, n! |P(1)\times P(2) ...\times P(n)$, iff $\exists a\in \mathbb Z, P(a)=0$ ?
08:50
$n! | 0$ is trivially true...?
if the polynomial has positive integer roots, then surely the product will collapse to zero
09:22
I am not sure what happens for negative roots though, perhaps there is a theorem concerning integer roots of polynomials that I am not aware of
It is also interesting to ponder about the case where $P(0)=0$
09:40
When $P(0)=0$ there is no constant term. Therefore, the polynomial must be of the form $P(x)=xQ(x)$. Now plug $x \in \Bbb{Z}$, therefore there must be a factor $n!$ and hence the proposition is true for $x=0$
Let $P(x)=A(x)+B(x)$ where $A(x)$ are odd powers of $x$ and $B(x)$ are even powers of $x$. Then $P(-x)=A(-x)+B(-x)=-A(x)+B(x)$. When $P(-x)=0$, $A(x)=B(x)$ for that particular $x$. therefore...
10:02
@BalarkaSen do you have a recommendation for a book in algebra?
@ShaVuklia I like Artin
Here's a proof that algebraists can draw pictures, too. Question: Does every Noetherian local commutative reduced ring have a unique minimal prime ideal? Answer: No, consider:
hi, am i right that $sin(z)/z$ has a simple pole at $\pi k $ for $k\ne 0$ ?
10:18
@MatheinBoulomenos That's the geometer's answer to the question, not the algebraist's
I can also write down $k[x,y]_{(x,y)}/(xy)$, same thing
The answer to the question becomes "yes" if you impose it's also an integral domain, btw.
That's trivial, integral domains always have a unique minimal prime
Sure.
@MatheinBoulomenos A real geometer would just say "ring of germs of regular functions on $xy = 0$ at the origin"
different language for the same object
10:24
Except one language is better. ::airhorn::
10:38
@balarka a thanks, do you have a pdf by any chance?
I can only find djvu formats
or maybe I should be able to convert those things
Let me check
Yeah I have a pdf. Do you want a copy?
yea that would be great, uhm maybe you can send it to my mail?
For sure. What's your email?
I have a mail that matches my username here:p it's [email protected]
10:40
thanks \o/
I'm sending it as a google drive link 'cuz it's a little big.
hahah alrighty
 
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Q: Why do we have $ \ln(z) = \frac{z-1}{e -1} \prod_{n = 1}^{\infty} \frac{ \exp(2^{-n}) +1} {z^{2^{-n}} + 1} $

mickWhy do we have $$ \ln(z) = \frac{z-1}{e -1} \prod_{n = 1}^{\infty} \frac{ \exp(2^{-n}) +1} {z^{2^{-n}} + 1} $$ Is it possible to show that the derivative of the product is $z^{-1}$ without showing that the product is the logarithm ? Does that imply there exists a solution set $a_n$ such that :...

Any ideas ??
This goddamn language… so apparently 消す (to put out, to extinguish) is pronounced "kesu", but 消える (to disappear) is pronounced "kieru". The first is the transitive version of the second, but in the first one, 消 is "ke", while in the second one, 消 is "ki".
(Japanese)
The kanji represent ideas, not sounds... but still
(す, え, and る are kana, meaning that they represent syllables and not ideas.)
@AkivaWeinberger This might be the reaction non-native speakers of English have to the tetragraph "-ough"!
12:42
japanese is basically a mix of syllabic and grapheme writing systems
Like chinese, the kanji represent ideas, but unlike chinese, kana is used in place of something very similar to aeiou in european language systems
whereas in chinese, the kanji represents both ideas and sometimes give information on how to pronounce it
The most upsetting alphabet is cherokee
Cherokee was invented by an illiterate cherokee who understood the general principle of the alphabet but not the specific case of the latin alphabet
So he just reused random latin letters
So it looks entirely random
@ÍgjøgnumMeg I'm 100% sure it is.
Our goddamn language…
@Slereah That's hilarious
And thus ᏣᎳᎩ is pronounced tsalagi (meaning the Cherokee language)
w o a h
Saying something like "Fermat's results were published posthumously by his son Samuel de Fermat in an appendix to a restored edition of Arithmetica" would mean that Samuel published Fermat's results after Fermat's death, right?
I mean.. I know that's what Samuel did, I'm more asking whether or not my use of the word "posthumously" is correct hahaha
It looks correct to me
$$ \thumbsupemoji $$
13:12
I think theoretically you could get it to be ambiguous, but in this case it's sufficiently clear from context
Actually, no, I can't think of a case where that would be ambiguous
hahaha right
13:43
Question: What does it mean to say "the L2 norm dominates the L1 norm"?
The $L^2$ norm has bigger muscles and prettier feathers than the $L^1$ norm, thus securing for himself a higher chance of mating with the $L^0$ norms
$C||f||_2\ge ||f||_1$ for some $C$ (assuming your measure space is finite)
people who write inequalities from right to left should be [redacted]
Do we know what $C$ is?
like $\mu(X)^{-1/2}$
13:51
I would have probably written it the other way around if the question was about the L1 norm being dominated by the L2 norm
you can do the computation using Holder's inequality
@user354824 depends on the measure of your space
As well as on $p$ and $q$ if you're comparing different norms
Hmm. When writing down piecewise functions I tend to writing the ranges as eg $x<0,$, $0<x<1$, $x>1$
@0celo7 there are a few valid reasons to write inequalities the wrong way; what offends me is the use of || when clearly \| was in order.
I see, thanks a lot.
13:53
@XanderHenderson yes there are valid reasons
@Semiclassical WHY?!
I have one in my thesis
It’d feel weird for me to write the last one as $1<x$
but for what @AlessandroCodenotti wrote, doing it this way is treason!
I tend to think that the ‘active’ part of the inequality should be on the left, so that the reasoning runs from left to right
13:55
@Semiclassical exactly!!
But sometimes you have to put it in the middle
Obviously, there’s not a precise meaning to what the active part of an inequality is
A lot of the time you really can run it in either direction
$C \|f\|_2$
$|\lor $
$ \|f\|_1$
fuck dude are you making a commuative diagram of inequalities
14:00
@0celo7 good idea
@0celo7 what’s your policy on punctuation in displayed equations?
@Semiclassical do you not like the comma in the equation above?
I hadn’t noticed that, actually
I’m more just wondering whether you worry about including commas/ periods in equations when it would be grammatically correct to do so
@Semiclassical I try
though it's not always clear to me when that's the case
I know Simon makes a point in one of his books of not doing so
14:04
Leon Simon?
or Barry
the worst is when people add a \quad before the punctuation
I always forget about \quad
my topology prof actually did quad
some books have a little space and it looks wrong
I tend to use \, or \; or just \hspace
I don’t really like doing so though
so quad could be a good alternative
Hmm, yeah
In some of those equations the space at the end is thin enough that it doesn’t bother me
But that last one edges into being too wide for my tastes
@Semiclassical I personally think my thesis has impeccable typesetting :P
Lol
One bit of notation that I’ve been finding myself eschewing is stuff like $f(x=0)=0$
yeah that's horrible
In preference to, say, $f|_{x=0}=0$
Just to get the two equalities in different places
On there other hand I’m still fine with $f(0<x<1)=x$
14:23
guys quick question
I probably shouldn’t be though
if I have measure space, defined on a set $\Omega$
@Semiclassical nasty
and I pick a subset $\Omega' \subset \Omega$
can I define a measure space on the subset?
so formally, I have this space $(\Omega,\Sigma,\mu)$
@0celo7 for instance if I want to denote the electric field between two plates
14:24
if $\Omega'$ is measurable, yes
starting from these can I define a measure space on $\Omega'$
I should probably write that using |_ as well though since it’s still a restriction of f
@0celo7 Why is that?
and how do I get the correspondent sigma algebra and measure
I assume the measure is obtained by some kind of domain restriction
not sure about the sigma algebra though
@user8469759 this is called restriction of measure, I think. I don't actually know how to typeset the thing
Sadly measure theory uses lots of symbols no one thought to program into TeX
Wonder if there's a package
testing $\llcorner$
@Ocelo7 can you elaborate?
14:28
ok so given $\Omega'\in\Sigma$ you can define a new sigma-algebra by intersecting every element in $\Sigma$ with $\Omega'$
and the restricted measure is defined by $\mu\llcorner\Omega'(A)=\mu(A\cap\Omega')$
Hey anyone there to help me out in discrete maths
?
I am stuck in this question:
Let A=f^-1(B). Prove that f(A)⊆ B
@0celo7 So it's like when you are trying to define a topological subspace
you work by intersections
except that you pick a measurable set
exactly
right, so I had to do dishes, but: if I am have a thing that I want bounded, it goes on the left; then the inequalities follow
for example, if I want to bound something from below, I'll write $x \ge y$
I think that is what you mean by the "active" part goes on the left
maybe?
also, punctuation in displayed math, but I think that LaTeX generally does a pretty good job of getting the spacing right
maybe the occasional \; or something
\quad is overkill
I suppose if $\Omega'$ is not measurable, you can still construct an outer measure on $2^\Omega$ from $\mu$, restrict that to $2^{\Omega'}$ and then take the subsets of $\Omega'$ which satisfy the Carathéodory condition as your sigma-algebra
14:39
yeah you'll just get an outer measure
but if you take $\Omega'\in\Sigma$ you know immediately what the measurable sets of $\mu\llcorner\Omega'$ are
Terminology question, does the term vector field only apply to the tangent bundle, or would you also refer to a section of any vector bundle on a manifold as a vector field?
tangent bundle
Thanks
people do use "E-valued fields"
So sheaf of vector fields = tangent sheaf

But a vector field itself is a section of the tangent sheaf. Why in the smooth affine variety setting is a vector field given by $A:\mathcal{O}_X\to \mathcal{O}_X$ such that $A(fg)=A(f)g+fA(g)$?
Or in the analytic setting, why is it $C^\infty(M)\to C^\infty(M)$ with that property, rather than a section $s:M\to TM$
I imagine this is induced in algebraic and analytic setting (or equivalent?)
14:53
You can identify a vector field with the directional derivative operator it induces
That's basically what it is
(why do I not know DG)
fades into oblivion
diff geo is one of the only worthy maths
I'll get a wiki education right now
just buy Warner or whatever
The solution is always to buy some textbook
And then sitting in front of you is a stack of 40 textbooks, all calling for each other, as you fade away
You recommend Warner above all others?
14:57
Can I please have a hint for this question? I'm not sure how to prove $k$ is infinite:
I recommend like 20 diff geo books
What exactly do you need
typing it out
I need knowledge
I don't know what I need
I want to understand vector fields in DG
I know the tangent sheaf in AG
I know some manifold theory
Define cubes (same-length intervals)^n as "non-overlapping" if theyre disjoint or possibly touching on their sides
14:59
I don't know directional derivatives apparently
wot
@0celo7 Yes that's a start, I'll watch your linked lecture series
how do you know manifold theory but not what tangent vectors are
Prove every non-empty open subset of $\mathbb R^n$ is a countably infinite union of non-overlapping cubes
wait that's all they are
I know the tangent bundle
14:59
@BalarkaSen help

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