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Graduate Varying Energy in a Schwartzschild Metric
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Graduate Quickly: Multlinearity of exterior derivative, and proof of invariant formula
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Graduate How can I construct a Riemann surface from branch data?
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Graduate What is the significance of the modulus of a Riemann surface?
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Graduate Morse homology of a tilted torus.
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Graduate Visualising singular cohomology using cap product.
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Graduate How to Calculate the Axis of Rotation in 3D Space?
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Graduate Deriving Elastica Equation: Bernoulli/Newton
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Graduate Does the metric tensor only depend on the coordinate system used?
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Graduate Calculating Riemann Curvature Tensor: Faster Methods?
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Graduate How Do Velocity and Displacement Vectors Transform in Plane Polar Coordinates?
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Graduate What are the best resources for beginners to learn about Holonomy Groups?
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Graduate How Do Indices Function in Tensor Notation?
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Graduate Topologising RP2 using open sets in R3
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Graduate Levi-cevita parallel propagation on a sphere
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Graduate Euler characteristic of complex projective plane
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Graduate Limiting the placement of covering rectangle with smaller rectangles algorithm?
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Graduate Developing a General Formula for a family of Curve Shapes
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Graduate Vectors, Covectors & Tangentvector in Manifolds without Metric
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Graduate Understanding Minimal Surfaces: Laplace Pressure of a Capillary Bridge
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Graduate What are projective transformations?
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Graduate Can 5th order equations be solved by means other than radicals?
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Graduate Question on energy displacement.
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Graduate How to create normal Riemann surface for cubic?
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Graduate Reference for simplicial homology and cohomology
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Graduate Is Horn-torus a valid genus-1 Riemann Surface?
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Graduate Question on tensor notation in group theory
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Graduate Interpretation of torsion vs riemann tensor
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Graduate Index Notation: ∂_i 1/r = -x_i/r^3?
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Graduate Smooth Homotopy, Regular Values (Milnor)
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Graduate Is e an Accumulation Point in This Topology?
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Graduate Path ordered integral over simplices?
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Graduate Help finishing connectedness proof.
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Graduate 4 component spinor isomorphic to S^7?
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Graduate Parallel propagator and covariant derivative of vector
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Graduate Rigged Hilbert Space: Algebraic v.s. Continuous Dual Space
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Graduate Mapping contours over normal Riemann surfaces
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Graduate Xyx^-1y^-1 a Lie group homomorphism?
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Graduate Linear change of coordinates preserving a certain property
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Graduate Topology generated by interior operator
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Graduate Intuition check-tiling a 3-sphere with 16 tetrahedra
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Graduate Proving no simplex has 2-fold symmetry
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Graduate Geodesic Equation - Physics Explained
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Graduate What is a Conifold and How is it Related to Orbifold Singularities?
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Graduate Covariant exterior derivative vs regular exterior derivative
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Graduate Define a function z = f(x,y) by f(0,0) = 0 and otherwise?
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Graduate Does the Mystery Manifold theorem exist?
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Graduate Is π(L) a Submanifold of the Torus?
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Graduate Trying to prove dual of there are at least tree points on every line
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Graduate How to compute the exponential map
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Graduate Anti-Symmetric Tensor: Solving for 'a' in W[ijWk]l=aW[ijWkl]
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Graduate Proving the Jacobi identity from invariance
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Graduate Riemannian Submersions: Understanding the Definitions and Well-Definedness
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Graduate Intuitive explanation of parallel transport and geodesics
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Graduate Perpendicular vector in 6th dimensional space
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Graduate Simple quesion about metric on extended real line
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Graduate Function that transforms (half) plane to annulus
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Graduate How to construct the two sheet cover of Klein Bottle?
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Graduate Dense orbits of irrational n-tuples in n-Torus
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Graduate Monomorphism cancellation property
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Graduate What is the Tensor Analog of the Poincare Lemma?
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Graduate Smooth Homotopy: Problem with Definition?
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Graduate Invariant vectors/eigenvectors of R(., v)v
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Graduate Quick question about interpretation of contravariant and covariant components
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Graduate Regular Point Theorem of Manifolds with Boundaries
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Graduate Vector field curvature in the complex plane
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Graduate Symmetric vector to tensor representation?
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Graduate How Einstein field equation becomes the Poisson equation?
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Graduate The relation between two terminology cusp (group & algebraic curve)
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Graduate How to determine whether the preimage of a point is a imbedding submanifold?
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Graduate Two approaches to lie algebras
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Graduate Isometric diffeomorphism on HPn/S^4n+3
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Graduate Covectors not identical with 1-forms?
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Graduate How does the covariant exterior derivative generalize to vector bundles?
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Graduate What is the Definition of a Manifold and How Does it Relate to Topology?
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Graduate Lie Groups and Canonical Coordinates
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Graduate Vertical subspace in HPn (Riemannian submersions)
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Graduate Velocity Vector has Coordinate-Independent Meaning
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Graduate Metric: A Property of Manifolds or Coordinate Systems?
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Graduate Meaning of totally antisymmetric tensor
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Graduate On the properties of Homogeneous Spaces
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Graduate Residues and the fundamental group
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Graduate How many ways to compute Puiseux series?
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Graduate Is the bracket of graded derivations a natural graded derivation?
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Graduate Prove Finite Orthogonal Set is Linearly Independent
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Graduate Proving Every Line is Contained by Two Planes: Using Incidence Axioms
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Graduate Is the interior of an angle a convex set?
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Graduate Does the presence of torsion require a non-symmetric metric?
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Graduate Connection coefficients as derivatives of parallel propagator
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Graduate Circle becomes a pair of parallel lines
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Graduate Limit of critical points of algebraic functions
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Graduate Equivalence classes and Induced metric
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Graduate How Can Railroads Implement Design Alignment with Tangential Track Movements?
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Graduate What Are Frame Bundles on Manifolds and Why Are They Important?
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Graduate Understanding the Product Property of Maslov Index: A Proof Using Homotopy Axiom
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Graduate Is Symmetry Limited in Geometry?
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Graduate Show me a book about hyper-sphere (n-sphere)
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Graduate Uniformity of Space: Definition & Examples
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Graduate Interpretation of projective space
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Graduate Show that a bilinear form is an inner product
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