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tough imp
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This seems... not true?

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Is that backwards

sleek thicket
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oh yes sorry

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you're right

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it goes the other way

tough imp
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Okay yup

sleek thicket
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however

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I can find twitter receipts

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of you defending doing this

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:^)

tough imp
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Lol

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This is true

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But I sniffed it out

sleek thicket
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anyways I think this is a valid reduction to the case R = Z

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break out the cover {U0,...,Ui} of Vi

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write down the equalizer condition

tough imp
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Right

sleek thicket
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and then if you work over Z and tensor with R you get the same sequence

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tada

tough imp
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I feel like somehow this wasn’t how they intended to you to go about this but I like it

sleek thicket
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well like

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later on I want to use that P^n is integral

tough imp
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To do what?

sleek thicket
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but I realized I was implicitly working over a field

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well I have a map O_X(Vi) -> product

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in the sheaf condition

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right?

tough imp
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Like the first map yeah

sleek thicket
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yeah

tough imp
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Right

sleek thicket
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integralness should tell you things about the image

tough imp
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Hmm

sleek thicket
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you can't have disjoint sets of nonzero coordinates

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or something

tough imp
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Hmmm

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This is a map from an integral domain (if it was integral) into some product

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And you’re saying you can’t like map into disjoint parts?

sleek thicket
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right

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I didn't get that far with it

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just seemed nicer to work over Z I guess

tough imp
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I mean I agree

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You can probably just do it manually over Z too if for some reason that ends up being easier

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I know for defining the segre embedding I reduced to Z

sleek thicket
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yeah I mean like

tough imp
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But now that I think about it

sleek thicket
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I have a very concrete sequence

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but its annoying lol

tough imp
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I don’t think I used anything special to Z besides maybe it being integral

sleek thicket
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anything to reduce complexity

tough imp
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Yeah

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Better to know you can do it and then just if at any point you go “if this was Z then...” then well... it is Z

sleek thicket
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right lol

sleek thicket
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@gritty widget if T is some 2-tensor, is <g, T> anything nice?

gritty widget
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maybe you can write it in like normal coordinates or something and it turns out to be something good

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since in normal coordinates centered at a point p, the matrix of g(p) is the identity

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idk

sleek thicket
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Was hoping it was like a trace somehow

gritty widget
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my proof for that problem used normal coordinates lol

sleek thicket
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Your problem nerdsniped me

gritty widget
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i wouldn't be surprised if it's like a trace or related to the trace

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i don't really wanna check rn though

mossy shoal
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Can someone suggest a problem set with solutions for topology

gritty widget
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go open up a copy of munkres, you can find solutions online in your brain

shut moat
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is the zarski topology related to the finite complement topology in any way? thonk

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My professor keeps calling the latter the former

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wiki pages suggest they're not lol

marsh forge
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idts

shut moat
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ty

gritty widget
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Oh, but they are the same in dimension 1 or something like that right?

tight agate
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yes, for curves over an alg closed field

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(assuming you're working in the classical setup)

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all curves over an alg closed field are homeomorphic

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in the zariski top

sleek thicket
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a set is the zero set of some polynomial iff it is finite

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so like if X = {a1,...,an} is some closed set in the cofinite topology then X is the vanishing set of the polynomial p(x) = (x-a1)...(x-an), and conversly the vanishing set of a (one variable) polynomial is finite

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but in higher dimensions this is not true. the y-axis {(x,y) : x = 0} is closed in the zariski topology on the plane because it's defined by a polynomial equation, but it isn't finite

gritty widget
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is this or abstract-algebra better for algebraic geometry talk

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(not trying to say you guys should move, just wondering for my own sake if i need to ask)

ivory dragon
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either fits but i'd probably consider this a better place

gritty widget
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where would be good for operator algebras

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analysis?

long coyote
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a point $x\inX$ astrong limit pointof $A$ if the intersection $N\cap A$ is infinite for any neighborhood $N$ of $x$. In T1, every open neighborhood $\mathcal{O}$ of $x$ contains infinitely many points of $A$, then $x$ automatically is a strong limit point

gentle ospreyBOT
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gritty widget
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What if the T1 space is finite?

long coyote
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T1 has no limit points

gritty widget
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\begin{align*}
\mathrm{Vol}(\tilde{M}) = \int_{\tilde{M}} dV_{\tilde{g}} &= \sum_{i=1}^m \sum_{j=1}^k \int_{(\varphi_i \circ \pi)(U_i^j)} ((\varphi_i \circ \pi|{U_i^j})^{-1})^*( \psi{i,j} dV_{\tilde{g}} ), \
&= \sum_{j=1}^k \sum_{i=1}^m \int_{\varphi_i(U_i)} (\varphi_i^{-1})^* \left( (\psi_{i,j} \circ \pi|{U_i^j}^{-1}) (\pi|{U_i^j}^{-1})^dV_{\tilde{g}} \right) \
&= \sum_{j=1}^k \sum_{i=1}^m \int_{\varphi_i(U_i)} (\varphi_i^{-1})^
\left( (\psi_{i,j} \circ \pi|_{U_i^j}^{-1}) dV_g \right),
\end{align*}

gentle ospreyBOT
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(T*(Terra), -dτ)

gritty widget
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partition of unity computations

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🤤

sleek thicket
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The sick, degenerate mind of a differential geometer

pastel linden
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one look at those equations and it could literally only be partitions of unity

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yucky

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(but handy)

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speaking of which that reminds me that I wanted to read the PoU section in tu

gritty widget
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it's worth it to read the construction at least once

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it's very general-topological

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and also you can see how second-countability is required in the definition of a manifold to get partitions of unity

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(which is also why some authors say that manifolds are paracompact instead, since that also implies existence of pou's)

sleek thicket
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I think I've forgotten the construction

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it isn't really memorable

gritty widget
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yeah lol

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they're a super useful tool, that's all that matters

nimble jolt
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it's just making bumps in R^n and putting them in places.

shut moat
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also partitions of unity are great wtf

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they're so slick

sleek thicket
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they are based

gritty widget
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😌

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they are magic

sleek thicket
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tfw no parititons of unity in the zariski topology

tight agate
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sheaf cohomology goes brrr

sleek thicket
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say $X$ is a space whose topology is coherent with the cover ${X_i}{i \in I}$ and $S$ is a subspace. What condition on $S$ and the $X_i$ are necessary/sufficient for $S$ to have topology coherent with ${S \cap X_i}{i \in I}$? I was hoping it's always true but I can't prove it

gentle ospreyBOT
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Shamrock emoji ☘

sleek thicket
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I have a proof in the case each X_i is open but that's useless to me unfortunately

sleek thicket
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ah, if S and each X_i is closed everything is okay

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but still, hmm

sleek thicket
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stuck in gentop hell again

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I think if $p : \tilde{X} \to X$ is a covering map with finite fibers then $p$ is closed

gentle ospreyBOT
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sleek thicket
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say $C \subseteq \tilde{X}$ is closed

gentle ospreyBOT
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sleek thicket
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it suffices to show $p(C) \cap U$ is closed in $U$ for any evenly covered open set $U$

gentle ospreyBOT
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sleek thicket
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hmm if the map were normal this would be trivial

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I think it actually suffices for me to prove this case but w/e

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so okay anyways

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$p^{-1}(U) = V_1\cup\ldots\cup V_n$

gentle ospreyBOT
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sleek thicket
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$p(C) \cap U$ is closed in $U$ iff $p^{-1}(p(C) \cap U) = (p^{-1}(p(C)) \cap V_1) \cup \ldots \cup (p^{-1}(p(C)) \cap V_n)$ is closed in $p^{-1}(U)$

gentle ospreyBOT
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Shamrock emoji ☘

sleek thicket
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or really $p^{-1}(p(C)) \cap V_i$ is closed for some $i$

gentle ospreyBOT
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sleek thicket
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figured it out

median glade
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I'm having trouble thinking of a map between CW complexes that isn't cellular 🤔

sleek thicket
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Take the antipode map on the circle, where we build the circle by attaching a line segment to one point. The 0 skeleton is sent into the 1 skeleton

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this is cellular with respect to another cw structure on the circle

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but not the one I've given

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I think a rotation by an irrational multiple of π might not be cellular with respect to any cw complex structure but I'm not sure

median glade
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Why is this not cellular?

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it seems to me that you've just described this situation?

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Hmm, so one example I've come up with since is to have a space Y, where you attach a 2 Disk to a point, to make a sphere

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and then you have a circle X, from linking a point to itself, which you wrap around this sphere

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then you can't find skeleton maps at all

sleek thicket
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Take a point

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Attach a line to it to get a circle

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The antipode map sends the point you started with to some point in the 1 cell

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So it maps the 0 skeleton into something which is not the 0 skeleton

median glade
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ah, I see

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I thought you were mapping that point to the basepoint of the circle

sleek thicket
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No, "the antipode map" is f(z) = -z

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Sorry for the confusion

gritty widget
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So I've never actually had to explicitly work out an integral on a manifold. Now I realize I do not know how to do it.

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If I want to integrate $\omega=sin(\theta)d\theta \wedge d \varphi$ on $S^2$

gentle ospreyBOT
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lime_soup

gritty widget
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I'm guessing this is the same as just integrating sin(x)dxdy with the proper limits?

uncut surge
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The general formal procedure for the integration of forms is: Cover your manifold with charts $\psi_U : U \to M$, decompose the form you want to integrate with a partition of unity $\omega = \sum \rho_U \omega$ so that every summand is supported in one of the images of the charts, and then calculate the integrals of the pullback forms $\psi_U^* (\rho_U \omega)$

gentle ospreyBOT
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Lartomato

uncut surge
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'cause that last thing is just a form on some open set of $\mathbb{R}^n$ where things can be integrated with yer boy lebesgue

gentle ospreyBOT
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Lartomato

uncut surge
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For the sphere, the good thing is that you can cover it with a single chart up to a zero set, using polar coordinates; so you only need to find that chart and pull back your form

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uuh, that is the abstract theory in general, once it comes to juggling with explicit expressions like d \theta \wedge d \phi i need to actually start up my brain

gritty widget
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okay this makes sense theoretically

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Do you know a good book with some examples

uncut surge
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I wish, most books I know keep this very abstract, they just always have a single exercise of calculating some spherical integral lmao

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Maybe someone else has a book

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But I guess the way that d theta and d \phi are defined, they are exactly the forms which, when pulled back to the domain of the domain of spherical coordinates (0, pi) \times (0, 2 \pi), they correspond exactly to "dx" and "dy"

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So you were probably right all along

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Thinking about it in this level of abstraction even feels a bit silly, because when you write a form on S^2 using the polar coordinates theta and phi, you're never really leaving the chart-description, so you don't really see the pullback at all

gritty widget
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No, i do appreciate linking the abstract stuff back to reality

summer jolt
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Hey, I'm trying to get my head around what is the difference between a retraction and a deformation retraction. My definition of retraction is: A continuous map $r: X \rightarrow Z$ s.t. $r(z) = z \in Z, \forall z \in Z$

And for a deformation retraction I was told: A continuous map $h: X \times [0,1] \rightarrow X$ s.t

$$\begin{align}h(x,1) = x \in X, \forall x \in X \
h(x,0) \in Z \
h(z,0) = z , \forall z \in Z
\end{align}
$$

But I'm struggling to interpret these definitions.

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summer jolt
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For example in the definition of a retraction are only the points in the subspace Z that are sent to Z. What happens to the points not in Z?

shut moat
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it describes it backwards in terms of parametrizations instead of charts, but it goes through a whole section developing the "chart that covers a manifold up to a zero set" thing

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(also only considers submanifolds)
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clarification: partitions of unity only show up as a tool to prove stoke's thm

summer jolt
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@gritty widget ok so would the identity map be a retraction?

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On this point, I have some doubts because my definition was: A continuous map $r: X \rightarrow Z$ s.t. $r(z) = z \in Z, \forall z \in Z$. However, I'm confused about the domain. It seems that the domain is Z, but then I don't see how the identity is not a retraction since it doesn't change any point in Z.

gentle ospreyBOT
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snypehype46

summer jolt
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Ok right but there is a "for all z in Z", right. So essentially r only concerns itself with Z not the entire space X

obtuse meteor
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my topology professor graded our exams so quickly wow

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r has to map all of X into Z

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but it has to be the identity on Z

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is the restriction

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easy disproof is every space retracts to a point trivially

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and deformation retract shows homotopy equivalence, and not every space is contractible

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I think @summer jolt the thing you want to think about is that deformation retracts have a time parameter

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so you can imagine points in X continuously moving to points in Z over time

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whereas a retract is sudden

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mapping all of S^1 to the point (1, 0) is a retract, because all constant maps are continuous

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but you can't make a deformation retract out of this, because you can't envision it happening over time

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it would somehow "break" the circle

summer jolt
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Ok this makes sense. So for example (forgetting about continuity for a sec), if X = {0,1} with Z = {1}, then f(x) = 1 is a retraction right but id(x) is not because the codomain is not Z.

obtuse meteor
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it's a kinda subtle and hard difference to understand bc it pushes up against visualization in some ways

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yes

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id : X -> X is a retraction of X onto X

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but not a retraction of X onto Z

gritty widget
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That's if X is not subset of Z?

obtuse meteor
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Z is a subspace of X

gritty widget
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Oh okay

summer jolt
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Ok and going back to my definition of deformation retraction: A continuous map $h: X \times [0,1] \rightarrow X$ s.t

$$\begin{align}h(x,1) = x \in X, \forall x \in X \
h(x,0) \in Z \
h(z,0) = z , \forall z \in Z
\end{align}
$$
What is the meaning of the first and last condition?

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obtuse meteor
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The first condition tells you that h is the identity at time 1

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and the last condition is,,,written wrong lol

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oh well that's fine actually

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there's just an equivalent way to do it I'm pretty sure

wanton marsh
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who is Z

obtuse meteor
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the last two conditions guarantee that h is a retract of X onto Z at time 0

marsh forge
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coho the difference is that in this defn that he sent

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we aren't given a retraction to start with

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so theres no need to care about what the htpy does outside of z

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because r(x):=h(x,0) is a retraction

obtuse meteor
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yeah we give a slightly stronger def in my class

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but I think they're equivalent

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namely that F_t(z) = z for all t and z in Z

marsh forge
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thats normally called a strong def retract iirc

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and i dont think its equivalent even up to htpy

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but i dont have a counterexample in mind

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should be in hatcher ch0 i think

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MSE cites Hatcher exercise 6 ch0

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sorry for derailing @summer jolt did we answer your question?

obtuse meteor
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ahh I see

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we only talked about the strong ones

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and I just call them deformation retracts so I didn't think about it lol

summer jolt
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@marsh forge that was helpful. I will try to draw a picture and post it here to see if I get it.

obtuse meteor
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@summer jolt do you know the general definition of a homotopy between two continuous maps?

obtuse meteor
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yeah

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then a weak deformation retract is just a homotopy from the identity to a retract is a good definition

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the three conditions given there

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gurantee h_1 is the identity

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and h_0 is a retract

marsh forge
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def retracts are nice because they let you know that there is an isomorphism on invariants and also that the generators are exactly what you expect bc the retract is a retract

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and you dont need strong to get that

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A good example is taking an annulus and including S^1 into it

obtuse meteor
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yeah, I don't think we've stated it formally

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but in computations it has been pretty easy to write down generators after doing a deformation retract

summer jolt
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So this would be a deformation retraction right?

obtuse meteor
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yes

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squishy

summer jolt
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However if I have a hole on one side of the cylinder then I can't do a deformation retraction but could technically still do a retraction

obtuse meteor
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yes

summer jolt
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Ok I see, what would be h(x,0) here?

obtuse meteor
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a projection map

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onto the first coordinate (the S^1 coordinate)

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which is your retract

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have you learned about how retracts interact with pi1?

summer jolt
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And h(x,1) is the identity right?

obtuse meteor
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it's a really interesting and powerful thing

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yeah

summer jolt
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Ok I see, I was kind of confused because the time coordinates seem "reversed"

obtuse meteor
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yeah I agree

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usually I use the opposite time convention from what your definition was

summer jolt
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That makes sense thanks a lot I get it now!

obtuse meteor
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no problem!

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algebraic topology is super cool

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🥺

marsh forge
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yes

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come to the dark side

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this channel has been too much smooth stuff lately

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we need more topology and less geometry

obtuse meteor
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I don't like smooth stuff at all so I am welcome to talk about this a ton :)

marsh forge
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has ur class done galois covering stuff coho

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that was like

obtuse meteor
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not yet

marsh forge
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the set of results

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that sold me on AT

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its still my favorite thing

obtuse meteor
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we're gonna do covering spaces though

marsh forge
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its JUST SO NEAT

obtuse meteor
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don't know if we'll get galois covering

marsh forge
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ah ur close then

obtuse meteor
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the class has to do like

marsh forge
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you 100% will i think

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the whole point of covering theory is to make computing pi_1 easier

obtuse meteor
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a lot of stuff bc like quals prep lol

marsh forge
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and make computing pi_n trivial

obtuse meteor
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I don't know anything about galois theory tho

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so that's scary lol

marsh forge
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its only called galois theory bc like

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its very analogous

obtuse meteor
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it's got the same flavor

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ah good okay

marsh forge
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yeah its like

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looking at the class of automorphisms that fix something important

obtuse meteor
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here's the course description

Course Description: This course covers the fundamentals of algebraic topology. Topics include fundamental group, covering spaces, simplicial complexes, graphs and trees, applications to group theory, singular and simplicial homology, Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms, Brouwer’s and Lefschetz’ fixed-point theorems. This is one of the basic courses for students beginning study towards the Ph.D. degree in mathematics, and preparation for the corresponding qualifying exam. 
obtuse meteor
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We should talk more about topology

marsh forge
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Thats a great curriculum

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missing higher homotopy groups

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but honestly theres not a ton to say about them in a first course other than

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they exist

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they are abelian

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good luck computing them

obtuse meteor
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lmao yeah basically that's what our prof said

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"take the next alg top course if you want to learn about higher homotopy groups"

marsh forge
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heres a fun theorem though

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if Y is a cover of X then they share higher homotopy groups

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maybe you need X to have some adjectives

obtuse meteor
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lol

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that is a fun theorem

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My brain went gigantamax mode on my topology exam and I remembered a random comment from someone about how covering spaces tell you the subgroups of your fundamental group that someone told me a few months ago or something

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which allowed me to answer a True False Question correctly

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even though we hadn't covered that

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(the question was "There does not exist a cover of S^1 by S^1 wedge S^1")

obtuse meteor
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good and based

marsh forge
obtuse meteor
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yes

marsh forge
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Did they give you the expected answer

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/ do you have a geometric reason why there isnt one

sonic hill
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Wonder if you can prove that using the idea that the point where the circles join isn’t locally homeomorphic to any point on the circle

marsh forge
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you can

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you just did

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lol

obtuse meteor
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we didn't have to justify true things

marsh forge
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covers are local homeos

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take a nbhd of the 'spider'

obtuse meteor
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so I just wrote true 😄

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yeah that makes sense

marsh forge
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there is nothing you can map that too on S^1

obtuse meteor
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bc it's two-dimensional there

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I realized my "solution" was wrong because of that

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but I couldn't figure out why there couldn't be some weird one

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and convinced myself of it from the algebra reason

marsh forge
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A cover of a manifold should also have to be a manifold because the local homeos should lift local euclideanness

obtuse meteor
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(it's obvious geometrically now)

marsh forge
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ive never heard that stated but it should be true

obtuse meteor
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yeah this was a problem on our study guide actually

marsh forge
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you soln was a good one though

obtuse meteor
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the study guide is very based

marsh forge
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although it requires some thought about why pi_1(S^1vS^1) can't be a subgroup of Z

obtuse meteor
marsh forge
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oh

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duh

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abelian

obtuse meteor
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yeah abelian

marsh forge
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yeah thats easy

obtuse meteor
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that's what I thought yeah

marsh forge
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ugh

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i want to do more math

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but im so tired all the time these days

obtuse meteor
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apparently there's some point set extra condition on your covering space

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or else it's not a manifold

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probably something like long line covers something that's a manifold

marsh forge
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oh maybe yeah

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this still works for that specific problem tho

obtuse meteor
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does long line somehow cover R^2?

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yeah it does

marsh forge
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uh

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shouldnt it cover S^1

obtuse meteor
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yeah it does was to specific problem

marsh forge
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I doubt it covers R^2 but maybe im wrong

obtuse meteor
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yeah it should

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good catch

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nah it doesn't

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dimensionality

marsh forge
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yeah ur not getting a local homeo

obtuse meteor
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sometimes I envision long line as like

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a plane with a weird topology

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bc long line weird

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and there is a bijection

marsh forge
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the lesss time i spend thinking about long line

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the better

obtuse meteor
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but this gives wrong geometry

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mhm

sonic hill
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I think of the long line as a line where every increasing sequence converges

lyric wadi
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Hey, so I was wondering if there were any texts which could serve as a good introduction to studying top/pl/diff/btop etc?
For context, I have some knowledge of singular homology/cohomology, de rham cohomology and a very basic acquaintance with stuff like plumbing/fibre bundles etc so feel free to tell me there's so much more I need to understand first (and hopefully some stuff that might be good to read while I'm at it)

marsh forge
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Hm do you mean like

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a good introduction comparing those categories

lyric wadi
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yeah

marsh forge
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interesting, no I'm not sure.

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I think a good idea is to compare the history of the Poincare Conjecture in all of them

lyric wadi
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basically I want to understand what it means that the kirby-siebenmann invariant is an obstruction to lifting

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and similar stuff

marsh forge
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idk if there is anything that compares them maybe you should write up some notes haha

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i'd read it

lyric wadi
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fair lol

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I guess I'll go bury my head in some category theory and hope stuff starts falling into place

pastel linden
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holy shit 42 problems for review

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that is a lot for a midterm

obtuse meteor
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I think we weren't intended to like actually do all those for review

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just like give each a look and solve the ones which were interesting and stuff

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the ones to focus on were true/false and fundamental group calculations

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the fact that when you puncture a fundamental polygon you can deformation retract to the boundary of the fundamental polygon and it works with all the gluing

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is honestly OP for a lot of these

gritty widget
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Can I someone help me with the hodge star operator

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I’m comfortable with it abstractly but cannot calculate with it

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Say we have \omega=sin(\theta)d\theta wedge d\phi

heady grove
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How would i show this field is axis symmetry

chrome dew
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I'd look at the symmetry of the quadratic surface u dot u = c for a constant c

heady grove
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i have a feeling this field has been rotated somehow? it should be 2D

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@chrome dew

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i think

chrome dew
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what you said doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I said

heady grove
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yeah i know

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Say i rotate this by z->-z, x->-x and y->-y

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this gives back the same field

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so in symmetric on rotation

chrome dew
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just read what I wrote

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and do it

heady grove
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i dont quite understand why that works

chrome dew
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what you're saying is just a special case

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it's looking at for what values u is constant

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which defines a level surface

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symmetries of this level surface are the symmetries of your field

gritty widget
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Does anyone know conditions for a one form, such that the integral of that one form does not depend on the choice of path in your space?

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If we are in R^n stokes theorem gives us that being closed is sufficient

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For the context I am trying to do this

bitter yoke
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These are called exact differential forms I think

gritty widget
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Really? I know that A is exact if A=dB

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But I don’t see how this implies that the integral of A around a path is constant

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Oh

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If we are only talking about closed paths then this should work

sleek thicket
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Closed should be enough

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In fact I think it's equivalent

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No, I am lying

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I misunderstood the question

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Thought it was about homotopy invariance of paths

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ISM proves exact iff only integral depends only on endpoints

gritty widget
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Ism?

sleek thicket
#

Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by John M Lee

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I'm a big fan

gritty widget
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You have him as a lecturer don’t you

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King

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I do like lee

sleek thicket
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I do lol

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He's great

gritty widget
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Would like to see him do a characteristic class book

sleek thicket
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Well they're showing up in my bundles class

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Today we did stuff with the chern classes

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But he's not doing eg the construction of them

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So he probably won't write a book on the subject

gritty widget
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My manifold knowledge is so strange

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I did point set topology

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Then moved uni for a masters

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And the masters diff geom started with vector bundles, principal bundles and finished with chern-gauss-bonnet theorem

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So

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I suck at manifolds

sleek thicket
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Oof

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My manifolds course was like the opposite of that

gritty widget
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Thumb reveal? OwO

sleek thicket
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We built everything up from first principles

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Over the course of a year

gritty widget
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Yeah I mean

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Most people in this course he

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Had*

sleek thicket
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Starting with topological spaces and ending with like, stokes theorem/de rham coho/foliations

gritty widget
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Done a good manifolds course in the bachelors

sleek thicket
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Yeah

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I would strongly recommend ISM btw

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I'm a big fan

gritty widget
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Yeah I’ve used myself

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But never taken a course with it

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And I’ve done cohomology operations like steenrod squares

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But not fundamental group

sleek thicket
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Wtf

gritty widget
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Yeah

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My bachelors wasn’t great

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But my masters is a pretty high level course

sleek thicket
#

That seems like a tough situation

gritty widget
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Yeah I found the first semester pretty insane

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But I’m very glad I did what I did

sleek thicket
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Nice!

gritty widget
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But it is funny

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Doing a problem and getting it down to some statements that sounds like it should be true

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But I don’t know enough of some bachelor course to know if it is

sleek thicket
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Lol

gritty widget
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Like lmao I’ve never taken proof based linear algebra

sleek thicket
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same lol

gritty widget
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Obviously you pick it up as you go along

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I must sleep

sleek thicket
#

I think of all that stuff in the context of like, modules over a PID

gritty widget
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Big ty

heady grove
gritty widget
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Topkek

sleek thicket
#

this is why honorables should get delete powers again

obtuse meteor
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actually this is a great reason why they shouldn't

pastel linden
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pin it please

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stoner math discord thonkeyes

little hemlock
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Let X be a regularly embedded submanifold of M. What does the pushforward of the inclusion look like? Is it injective with rank equal to dim X?

gritty widget
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sounds right

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"embedded submanifold" usually means "inclusion is an embedding" (immersion, homeo onto image)

little hemlock
#

makes sense. Thanks

gritty widget
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does anyone have any intuition behind the iso $[\Sigma X, Y]\simeq [X, \Omega Y]$

gentle ospreyBOT
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spinsicle

gritty widget
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for like S^ 1 or something

digital peak
gritty widget
#

oh, ng is a pothead?

marsh forge
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Another way of writing this is $[X\wedge S^1,Y]=[X,Maps(S^1,Y)]$

gentle ospreyBOT
marsh forge
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Which is exactly 'homotopical currying'

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(edited to be a little more correct)

cedar pebble
gritty widget
#

Hi, do you guys have content about the Kay-Wald boundedness theorem ? Intuitive explanation or not too hard proof would be awesome

ivory dragon
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where is this coming up? it's a fairly recent result so i doubt there'll be a particularly easy proof

gritty widget
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I'm working on a project for a Mathematical course ("mathematics of wave equations of general relativity")

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And ... I'm a physicist

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So it's quite hard, not to say really hard to try to understand

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I didn't find any conference or video lesson either unfortunately

ivory dragon
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although if anyone here can offer anything it'd certainly be welcome

gritty widget
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I'll try that thank you

pliant marsh
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I'm trying to show that the Zarinski topology on R agrees with the cofinite topology on R. I was wondering if this reasoning is enough?

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Furthermore I'm not entirely sure on what "agree" actually means, does it mean that I have to show that all open sets in one topology is open in the other and same with closed sets?

marsh forge
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yeah that looks fine

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you might want to justify why V(P) is finite

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as thats like the main thing

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but thats obvious

pliant marsh
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alright cool, thanks

gritty widget
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nitpick: you may want to amend your first sentence to also include the empty set

pliant marsh
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oh yes, will do

gritty widget
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also, the logic is slightly weird, "[V(P)] is indeed finite if P is non-zero", but you really want to know that V(P) is always finite and can be made to correspondn to any finite set

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what you said implies only that the zariski topology is coarser than the cofinite topology

pliant marsh
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Oh I see, so I'd have to do the converse as well?

gritty widget
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i guess you can think of it like that

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you can certainly do it by "every open set in the cofinite topology is open in the zariski topology" and vice versa. or you can just do it by characterizing all open sets in the cofinite topology and all open sets in the zariski topology, and showing that they are the same (which sounds like the way that you want to do it)

pliant marsh
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Hm I think I'll do it the first way, since I have more of an idea of how to do that. What I wrote down is just random thoughts written in a formal manner so I'm not really sure how that corresponds to the second way haha.

gritty widget
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the second way essentially amounts to showing that ${{x \in \mathbb{R}: P(x) = 0}: P \in \mathbb{R}[x]} = {A \subseteq \mathbb{R}: |A|<\infty} \cup {\mathbb{R}}$

gentle ospreyBOT
gritty widget
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where you have already pointed out that the LHS is a subset of the RHS

pliant marsh
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ah okay I see, thank you I'll go with that then

summer jolt
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Hi, I've got a question about the definition of intersection multiplicity for intersections between algebraic curves. This was the definition given to me

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I don't quite get what the definition means by the ideal I. In my abstract algebra course,we defined ideals as subsets that are closed wrt addition, negatives and absorbs products. So here what are the ideals generated by f(x,y,1) and g(x,y,1)

marsh forge
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smallest ideal containing both

summer jolt
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@marsh forge ok so suppose we consider two curves let's say $y^2 z = x^3$ and $y=0$, then what is the ideal?

gentle ospreyBOT
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snypehype

marsh forge
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Sorry when it comes to this kind of computation I'd need to be more careful bc I dont think about it often, but the intuition is that you make the ideal by throwing in f,g, and then everything else needed to make it an ideal (for example, you'd have to add f+g, -f,-g, etc)

summer jolt
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So all linear combinations of f(x,y,1) and g(x,y,1)?

west brook
#

Would anyone like to help me try to formalize the concept of a geometric conjugate?

gritty widget
#

Does anyone have a good intuition for uniformizers and divisors?

sweet wing
#

i only know them through number theory hmm

gritty widget
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do you have a good intuition for them through number theory?

trail ibex
#

Maybe just shoot your question and see what comes up ?

cursive flume
#

how can one prove the polarization identity for the einstein tensor?
rather: why is the einstein tensor a symmetric bilinear form?

flint cove
#

This is not really my topic, but doesn't symmetry follow from symmetry of the ricci tensor and the metric tensor?

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And bilinearity since it's a linear combination of 2-tensors

cursive flume
#

right makes sense

sleek thicket
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@fading vale hello

gentle ospreyBOT
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Moth | not male

fading vale
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hi shamrock

sleek thicket
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locally trivial as in a locally trivial fiber bundle?

fading vale
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i think so

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he hasnt really talked about that

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does that sound right

gentle ospreyBOT
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Moth | not male

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Moth | not male

fading vale
#

uh anyway the part of the proof im confused about

gentle ospreyBOT
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Moth | not male

sleek thicket
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sorry I just started an irl thing but I'll look in like 10

gentle ospreyBOT
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Moth | not male

fading vale
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(U x {b} i meant obviously)

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so i assume he means an automorphism in the slice category over U or something

gentle ospreyBOT
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Moth | not male

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Moth | not male

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Moth | not male

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Moth | not male

fading vale
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but then idk how youd extend it

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im gonna move on for now and just assume this but if anyone could ping me if they figure it out that would be nice lmao

fading vale
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ok wait nvm that was silly

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f obviously gives rise to a map on U and then that gives rise to a map f_x U x {x} for any x in [b, c] so u can let the automorphism g be given by the f_x on every U x {x} i think

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and then glue phi and g circ psi

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yeah nvm u can ignore this i had to work out some kinks in what i described above lmao but it works

sweet wing
fading vale
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tom dieck why

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what exactly does this mean by "connected principle coverings are the connected coverings with largest possible automorphism group"

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didnt this entire discussion assume that p had a G principle covering

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without that you cant even define l so i dont see how this says anything about general connected coverings

sleek thicket
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Principal coverings probably means normal coverings?

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I say this because a covering map is normal iff it's a principal bundle over the group of deck transforms

fading vale
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its properly discontinuous with p(gx) = x for g in G, and where the induced action on each fiber is transitive

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sooo

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idk is that equivalent

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i dont remember hatcher 1.3 at all

sleek thicket
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Hmm, the second condition should be equivalent to normality

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I think the first is just ensuring you get a covering map?

fading vale
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uhhh

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you assume p is a cover

sleek thicket
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hmm

fading vale
#

im mostlyj ust confused because like

sleek thicket
#

Okay I think I see why I was confused

fading vale
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E connected ensures that l is injective right?

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uhh i should probably reread and verify that real quick

sleek thicket
#

I don't see why? Can't you take G = Aut(p) × C2 and let the second factor act trivially?

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You'll preserve transitivity and all

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(assuming the group of automorphisms acts transitively)

fading vale
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i meant like

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in this specific context

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with G properly discontinuous, p(gx) = p(x), action on the fiber transitive

sleek thicket
#

Ah I was missing proper discontinuity

fading vale
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yeah

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i guess im just confused cuz i feel like in the case where you have an arbitrary cover this discussion shouldnt tell us anything at all

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the only way the size of the cover comes into play here as far as i can tell would be if l was surjective but not injective

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and G principle implies l injective

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but like... you need that for l(g) to even be an automorphism

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so ??

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i feel like this shouldnt tell us anything at all about arbitrary connected coverings

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ok another thing since i moved on from that

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what are the equivalence classes here? like under what relation?

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it sounds like its just identifying the orbits of H but like. arent those just the points of E/H??

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i found an answer on MSE god i love that website

sand void
#

Give an example of a pair (X, d) which obeys axioms (bcd) of Definition
1.1.2, but not (a)

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any examples?

gritty widget
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what is definition 1.1.2? what are axioms a through d?

sand void
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we've to show if d(x,y) > 0 can be shown from the rest axioms of a metric

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or give an example where d(x,x) = 0, d(y,x) = d(x,y) and triangle inequality holds

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but d(x,y) < 0

gritty widget
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metric on a singleton space

sand void
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could you describe a bit?

gritty widget
#

not without seeing what definition 1.1.2 is

sand void
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it's the definition of a metric

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whether the axiom d(x,y) >0 is redundent or not

gritty widget
sand void
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question b

gritty widget
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that's not even what you originally asked

sand void
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my bad sorry

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but this is the question

gritty widget
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anyways the "distinct" part makes my example fail

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so you'll have to look for something else

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although with these definitions you could do something similar

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like ||send everything in a two point space to zero||

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cause then a and c and d are trivially satisfied, but you have two distinct points in the space whose d is zero

sand void
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yes

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right

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but then d(x,x) = 0 iff x = 0 doesn't satisfy

gritty widget
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the first condition isn't an iff, in that picture

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in fact the second condition could be rephrased as the converse to the first

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so with that in mind

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the question is essentially to find a case where all conditions but one direction of that biconditional hold

violet sonnet
#

hello! i'd like to work out the positions of these circles but i can't figure it out, been here for a while

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i'd like some sort of function $p : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{R}^2$ so that $p(i)$ is the position of the i'th circle

gentle ospreyBOT
#

jn3008

violet sonnet
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would this be possible?

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not sure where to start

cloud owl
#

i don't understand what the initial configuration is

violet sonnet
#

it's a fractal

cloud owl
#

yeah but afaik it's really hard to do anything without an initial setup

violet sonnet
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this is the setup

cloud owl
#

what is that

violet sonnet
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red is isometric to blue

cloud owl
#

ok i think i see it better now

violet sonnet
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it's the same pattern over and over, rotated and scaled

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i guess in a way it is the "initial setup" that's the mystery to be solved

cloud owl
#

it's still incredibly difficult but now there's somewhere to start

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jesus, that's awful, idk how to do this

violet sonnet
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it's tough

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because it has no start and end

cloud owl
#

well it could

violet sonnet
#

what if we stop at some big circle, and call that the beginning

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and the sequence proceeds to infinity as they get smaller

cloud owl
#

let's just take all the circles with centres on the blue lines

violet sonnet
#

okay

cloud owl
#

wow, no, that's just absurdly hard

violet sonnet
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the tangency pattern is given by i is tangent to {i-5, i-3, i-2, i+2, i+3, i+5}

cloud owl
#

i have absolutely no clue what that means

violet sonnet
cloud owl
#

yes

violet sonnet
#

I have an image of the circles labelled, but I cannot upload it

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not on the phone nor on pc.

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should I give up?

wanton marsh
#

so given 3 circles you want to find the two circles that are tangent to all of them ?

violet sonnet
#

i'm quite proud of myself

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it's a recursive function

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but it works

flat raven
cloud owl
#

wow, that's legitimately extremely impressive

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kudos

prisma pebble
#

what language/program did you code that in?

violet sonnet
#

thanks! :), so the ratio in between the circles was guessed by trial and error because working it out by hand on paper was way too complicated, like sums of arcsin(sqrt(thing)), ended up being around 0.730001 which is really curious

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I coded it in javascript using p5.js @prisma pebble

prisma pebble
#

whoa, cool

obtuse meteor
sleek thicket
fading vale
#

as it should be

bitter yoke
sleek thicket
#

what does number theory have to do with coffee cups???

fading vale
#

😡

sleek thicket
#

smh

bitter yoke
#

the server icon is a picture of an elliptic curve over C

sleek thicket
#

no it is a cup of coffee, the most fundamental object in topology

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and besides "elliptic curve"??? That doesn't sound like it's about numbers at all

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Actually I don't know if I mentioned it but I applied to an reu on elliptic curves

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Pomona

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@shut moat did you have a question?

tight agate
#

all of us are going to end up being baristas

shut moat
#

ya but I'm still trying to word it decently

fading vale
#

then when THAT doesnt work out we'll become baristas

shut moat
#

does the generalization of stoke's theorem to discontinuous forms require currents? the context here is that I'm trying to formally justify some of the stuff we do in electrostatics. $\mathbf{E}$ is a vector field that satisfies $\text{div}\mathbf{E} = \frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0}$. Using this, we then say that $\frac{Q}{\epsilon_0} = \int_V \div \mathbf{E} d^3\mathbf{x} = \int_{\partial V} \Phi_{\mathbf{E}}$. However, we often have charge densities defined only on surfaces. (For instance, a uniform charge density on a sphere). $\rho$ can't be formally regarded as a $3$-form without some dirac delta bullshit. So stoke's theorem seems to break here. Yet we can still charge on and use divergence theorem to show that the electric field in the ball bounded by the sphere is zero, and a $\frac{1}{r^2}$ vector field outside. So presumably there's a variant of stoke's out that \emph{does} work for this problem.

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shite

fading vale
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lol

gentle ospreyBOT
shut moat
sleek thicket
#

lol I was going to ping double dual but he's already in chat

tepid depot
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Hi

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I don't know anything but I would believe it if currents were the rigorous answer

cloud owl
tepid depot
#

No this definitely is advanced

cloud owl
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ok

tepid depot
#

Although actually, if your form defined on the surface may be extended, your ok

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I vaguely feel like spivak calc on manifolds deals with these things

sleek thicket
#

You can always extend it, right? A continuous or smooth section of a vector bundle on a closed subset to a nbhd ?

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This is done in ISM I think

shut moat
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well, the problem is that the associated \rho isn't smooth

sleek thicket
#

Ah okay, sorry

shut moat
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it's zero inside and outside, and rho on the boundary

sleek thicket
#

oh that's odd

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hmm

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you could try writing it as a limit

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But you'd need some way to commute the limit and the integral

tepid depot
#

So like if it's 1/r^2 you'd use an annulus for example

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And compute things close to the singularity

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Sorry for vagueness lol

obtuse meteor
tight agate
#

true

tepid depot
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@shut moat

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Is this basically what you want to make rigorous?

shut moat
#

that's a similar issue, but not exactly that

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I think it might help if I wrote the specifics of the problem-
You have a charge density $\rho$ on the sphere of radius $R$, so that the amount of charge on a patch $U$ of the sphere is $\int_{U}\rho dS$. To come up with the electric field, you do the following:
Take a sphere of radius$ r < R$. the ball it bounds contains no charge, so $\text{div}\mathbf{E} = 0$ everywhere inside, so there's no flux, and the electric field vanishes.
Then, take a sphere of radius $r > R$. It now contains the charged sphere, so the enclosed charge is Q so the electric field is $\mathbf{E}(\mathbf{x}) = \frac{Q}{4\pi \epsilon_0 |\mathbf{x}|^3}\mathbf{x}$. So the full electric field is defined as this piecewise vector field inside and outside the sphere

gentle ospreyBOT
tepid depot
#

oh maybe you just want to smoothly approximate this discontinuous thing you have

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in the context of physics, i think you would need to carefully look at what your model is assuming. is it valid to have discontinuous charge density?

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i’m not a physicist so forgive me if i’m totally not getting it btw

shut moat
#

we use "lower dimensional" charge densities all the time as dummy systems in intro EM, but it's true that IRL charge densities are always actually 3d distributions

tepid depot
#

that really makes me think this is just a case of a physicist making an assumption that breaks their own model

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and pressing on because they don’t really care

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but I would still think smoothly approximating the invalid given is probably the best way to deal with this

shut moat
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well, the conclusion is reasonable, I think, and it is a good approximation of putting charge on a plastic sphere or something like that (so I'm not sure if it's breaking the model)

tepid depot
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right sure

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i think the real physical situation is basically a smooth approximation too right?

flat raven
shut moat
tepid depot
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ok i don’t know physics very well i think that comment was wrong

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being more rigorous is reduced to a sentence, which is basically “technically you need to use limits”

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presumably because these multivariable calc laws don’t apply when things are discontinuous

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so i would see if you can get the same answer with an approach of that nature

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stokes theorem applies outside an epsilon neighborhood of the sphere. apply the theorem and send epsilon to 0

shut moat
#

But integrating while ignoring the discontinuity seems to consistently work well. Doesn't this suggest that there's probably a stronger statement to be made that characterizes problems like these? (without treating them as limits of integrals)

tepid depot
#

it probably depends on how messy the discontinuity is

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it’s very regular in this problem, and any problem you’d actually see in physics

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this approach would be correct but yield a more complicated result if the discontinuity was worse

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one that might disagree with “ignoring the discontinuity”

marsh forge
#

maybe S^1 wants to see if there is a version of stokes that captures these nice disconts

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i guess

tepid depot
#

that’s a guess, but you should try and see if you can figure out what conditions make “ignoring the discontinuity” work!

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there probably is but idk if it’d be written anywhere

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probably “piecewise smooth” is good enough

marsh forge
#

Yeah i dont even know who i would ask for the folklore lol

tepid depot
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i would think

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but you have to think about the geometry of the pieces too

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“piecewise smooth with piecewise smooth boundaries on each piece”

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something like that i bet is good

shut moat
#

that sounds believable

tepid depot
shut moat
#

oh I didn't know the form can be C^1, the version I've seen requires that both the form and the manifold containing the rough set be C^2 :o

tepid depot
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i bet you can use stokes theorem to write down a formula in the case above i discussed

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by using epsilon neighborhoods of the discontinuities

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that’s probably as general as you can get it

shut moat
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yeah that seems reasonable, I'll try and see if I can work out the details of this

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ty for the help! catheart

fading vale
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idk if im stupid or what

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but like

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at the start of the second paragraph "there exists for each x in B an open neighborhood V_x blah blah blah h maps V_x x [i/n, (i+1)/n]..."

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h is a map from X x I -> B

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so??

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this looks vaguely like a typo because lemma 3.2.3 talks about open coverings of what would be X x I in the case of 3.2.2 but even substitute that isnt super clear

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since we dont ahve a given cover of X x I and it talks about how the thing is mapped into an open set U that p is trivial over

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so ud think that youd have to apply 3.2.3 to the covering \mathcal{U} of B or something where p is trivial over U in \mathcal{U}

fading vale
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i like how this channel is just progressively tracking my mental breakdowns as i go through tom dieck

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honestly the messages here could be an autobiography

river granite
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petthecat

gritty widget
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it's like exercising

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but instead of breaking down your muscles and they reform stronger it's your mental

tidal cedar
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It's gonna be the source of a docudrama

sleek thicket
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no your mental

tidal cedar
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And here we see the killer, known only as Moth, and their notes on why they suddenly snapped and went on a spree that would shock academia to its core

gentle ospreyBOT
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spinsicle

gritty widget
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i'm trying to find an \eta so this commutes

gentle ospreyBOT
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spinsicle

gritty widget
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i tried using this but it doesn't workkkkkkkk

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help thank you n.n

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actually i should to this the other way around and then the iso is simpler

native raptor
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hey, anyone able to help me define a left-invariant metric on SU(2)?

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so far i've got that the tangent space is diffeomorphic to S^3 x R^3

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so i just need to explicitly define a left-invariant global frame right? and then i could equip it with the standard inner product to make it an orthonormal frame?

sleek thicket
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makes sense to me

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essentially what you're doing is choosing a basis on the tangent space at the identity (= lie algebra), using that to define an inner product on the lie algebra, and then defining the inner product everywhere else by pushing forward along the left translation maps

native raptor
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yeah i think i follow that much

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maybe my problem is that i'm trying avoid working in coordinates lol

gritty widget
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lie groups
coordinates
catwiggle

sleek thicket
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you should be avoiding working on coordinates!

native raptor
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oh okay good lol

sleek thicket
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The whole point of lie groups is that they have nice global structure

native raptor
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can i just like. let E_1, E_2, E_3 be some left-invariant global frame

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i'm sorry i'm terrible at this

gritty widget
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that could work, and then you define the metric to be the one that makes that frame orthonormal

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it's probably easier to, as shamrock said, work on the lie algebra and then left translate

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(basically the same thing i guess, since left-invariant global frames are obtained by left-translating bases of \mathfrak g)

native raptor
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okay i'll try that, thank you!

frigid patrol
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Let G be a lie group. Use the fact that G x G -> G, (g,h) |-> gh is differentiable to show that G -> G, g |-> g^-1 is differentiable.

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Hint: ||Use inverse function theorem in a neighborhood of the unit element.||

sleek thicket
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Are you posing this problem to us or asking for help?

frigid patrol
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Asking for help

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Just incase you dont want to use a hint

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This is the first exercise in tom Dieck's book

gritty widget
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||m(g, i(g)) = m(i(g), g) = e, where m is the multiplication map and i the inversion||

frigid patrol
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Sure

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How does that help

gritty widget
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idk it's just the first thing that comes to mind, i've never done the exercise before

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You know that inverses exist since G is a group

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Define the ‘inverse diagonal’ to be all points (g,g inverse) in G times G

digital peak
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is sphere an analytic manifold hmmm

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it's gotta be, right? stereographic projection is a rational function

sleek thicket
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it's a complex manifold

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As CP^1

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Sorry by sphere do you mean S^2 or S^n?

digital peak
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S^2

sleek thicket
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Then yeah I think it's easiest to think of it as a complex manifold

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Which should automatically imply it's real analytic

sleek thicket
sweet wing
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CP1 honestly

frigid patrol
sleek thicket
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Consider the function f(x, y) = (x, xy)

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Then f is smooth and h = i(g) is uniquely determined by f(g, h) = (g, e)

frigid patrol
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Okay

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Is df a linear isomorphism of the tangent spaces at identity?

sleek thicket
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I think so

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It comes down to the differential of the multiplication at the identity

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And to the differential of a cartesian roduct of two functions

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(something of the form of p |-> (φ(p), ψ(p))

frigid patrol
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Ok I think the jacobian at the identity is something like
[1 1]
[0 1]

sleek thicket
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something like that

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wrt any basis for T_(e, e) (G×G) you get by pairing two bases for T_e G

frigid patrol
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Oh I realize I miss read the hint and it said to use implicit function thm

sleek thicket
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That might work too

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We have a relation gh = e

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so we can locally solve for h

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(that's my idea at least)

frigid patrol
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Yeah it's just implicit function thm monkey

sleek thicket
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tbh I don't remember the statement of either the implicit or inverse function theorems

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I just think about the rank theorem

digital peak
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weird

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lie theory starts with a bit of intro top... doesn't mention connectedness. Hw has a connectedness problem

sleek thicket
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how do you do lie theory without already knowing topology stuff?

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Is it like, matrix groups exclusively?

frigid patrol
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connectedness is an importing thing to consider in lie thoery

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if your lie group isnt connected, you can quotient out by the connected component of the identity and get a discrete group

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thats why most of lie theory is concerned with connected lie groups

digital peak
sleek thicket
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This does not answer my question hmmm

digital peak
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there is a fun anal class that spends the first half building up point set, but just the parts relevant to fun anal

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not connectedness

frigid patrol
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Why does any nhbd of identity generate the whole connected component of the identity?

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@digital peak what book are you using for lie groups

digital peak
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no idea

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this is a lecture only class

gritty widget
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not confident on that one

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shamrock correct me

sleek thicket
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Let X be the subgroup generated by that nbhd U of the identity. Then for any g in X we have gU <= X because X is a subgroup and gU is open because left translation by g is a homeomorphism. An open subgroup is automatically closed, because its complement is a union of cosets, which will all be open. Since the connected component of the identity is subgroup containing U it also contains X. By connectedness X is the whole component

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It's not a lie group thing

frigid patrol
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We dont have exp@gritty widget

sleek thicket
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It's a topological group thing

frigid patrol
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This is chapter 1

gritty widget
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oh ew it's just topology 🤢

sleek thicket
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I think you need to assume the nbhd is contained in the connected component of the identity

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Additionally

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Otherwise take your nbhd to be the whole space

frigid patrol
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Thanks rocksham

sleek thicket
gritty widget
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the best way to learn is to post the wrong answer petTheCat thanks shamrock

sleek thicket
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lol

frigid patrol
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Exp may diverge far away from the original pt

sleek thicket
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I remembered correctly

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Not entirely sure that it's connected but uhh probably idk

gritty widget
sleek thicket
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shouldn't you be able to riemannian geometry this

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Simply find a connected lie group which is not complete under a bi invariant metric

gritty widget
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yes then i have to pull out lie groups with bi-invariant metrics out of my ass

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e.g. O(n)

sleek thicket
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Tfw compact

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tfw compact metric spaces are complete

gritty widget
sleek thicket
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Wait I think I just realized something

gritty widget
sleek thicket
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Thinking

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I'm being dumb

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Lie groups are automatically complete under a bi invariant metric

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Right?

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I've seriously confused myself

gritty widget
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R+

sleek thicket
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Because the exponential map exists for all time?

gritty widget
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wait no

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uh

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yeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhh

sleek thicket
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Yeah that's isometric to R, right ?

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Tterra bravely danning himself

gritty widget
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i had my third brain fart today ignore that

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today is not my day

sleek thicket
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I mean I've been saying nonsense for like the past 5 minutes

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Seriously confused about RG

gritty widget
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i believe you are right

sleek thicket
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I wonder if I could work as a TA for the manifolds course at my school

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It's notoriously hard and faced paced

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would probably be a dick move to not just help ppl though

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The clientbase is very small

gritty widget
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yeah, so complete = some exponential map is defined on the entire tangent space. for a bi-invariant metric, the lie group exponential (defined on all of T_eG) coincides with riemannian exponential

sleek thicket
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Yupp

gritty widget
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ur good

sleek thicket
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And lie groups equipped with a left invariant metric are homogeneous

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So complete iff complete at a point

gritty widget
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do carmo's treatment of completeness is still haunting me

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all manifolds are connected pepega

sleek thicket
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aha I remembered correctly!

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So a necessary condition for a connected lie group to admit a bi invariant metric is that the exponential map be surjective

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right?

gritty widget
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yes

sleek thicket
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That's p cool

gritty widget
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lie group exponential and riemannian exponential at identity (which is onto by lemma) coincide so you're all good catwiggle

sleek thicket
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oh huh

gritty widget
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wait

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edited

sleek thicket
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Milnor showed that the only lie groups which admit bi invariant metric are direct products of compact and abelian lie groups

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I did not know that

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Lee mentions it in IRM

gritty widget
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that's neat

sleek thicket
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I wonder if I could read that paper

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Probably not

gritty widget
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i might have glanced through it before

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i vaguely recall something like that

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you probably could read it

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hm okay i might have been reading something else

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do you know what it;s called

sleek thicket
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Something like "on left invariant metrics and curvature"

gritty widget
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Curvatures of Left Invariant Metrics on Lie Groups ?

sleek thicket
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That's the one

gritty widget
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yeah i stumbled along this one while i was doing that one lee problem and failing

sleek thicket
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Lol

gritty widget
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i like to think that spending that long on a problem and slowly convincing myself it was wrong was a good thing

sleek thicket
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Yeah!

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I love doing that

gritty widget
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that was probably the first time it happened to me

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still seething

sleek thicket
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lmao consider yourself lucky

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It happens to me like

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Once per class

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I think 3/6 of my algebra exams last year had an error

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iconic email from my professor

frigid patrol
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:(

sleek thicket
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This isn't exhaustive lol

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I love Sándor but he did make a lot of mistakes on the problem sets/exams

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That's the best one

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I ended up working up until the end of the extension

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turned an arduous day long exam into an until 3am exam

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Lmao

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Usually my profs announce it in class and/or on canvas

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When I point something out

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one time my analysis prof put me on the spot after I pointed out an error before class

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And made me do the announcement

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(folland's hint was false)

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Yeah haha I was a deer in the headlights

fathom cave
gentle ospreyBOT
fathom cave
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the writers mentions V is an invariant vector field ( i have no idea what invariant vector field is.) does it have anything to do with the reasoning here?

thorny flare
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not sure if this is advanced enough to ask in here, but is there a way to show that for an open set G and a finite set K, G-K is open?

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I keep finding examples online where K is closed

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but not where K is finite