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Graduate What Are Examples of Torsion in Homology?
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Graduate How Does Knowing a Lie Algebra Inform Us About Its Corresponding Lie Group?
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Graduate Proving the Connection of Subsets in Topology
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Graduate Is GL2(R) an Open Subspace, Compact, or Connected?
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Graduate Is there a function for d\theta on the circle?
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Graduate Homology and Homotopy groups from properties
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Graduate Homology groups from Homotopy groups
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Graduate Is There a Closed Surface in 3 Space That is Not Curved?
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Graduate Are All Two-Dimensional Manifolds Conformally Flat?
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Graduate Distances, compactification & Möbius transformations
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Graduate 3D space where circumfernce = 4*pi*R
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Graduate Euler angles of rotation about x=y=z
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Graduate Eccentricity of a compressed circular ring
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Graduate Complex curvilinear coordinates(?)
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Graduate Curvilinear coordinates question
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Graduate What is the method for finding the centers of circles in the Apollonian Packing?
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Graduate Poincaré-Hopf Theorem: Proving General Cases
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Graduate Proving Completeness of a function space
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Graduate Coordinate Chart on Manifold: What is $\mathbb{R}^{n}$?
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Graduate Embedding manifolds that are not very flat.
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Graduate Total and exterior derivative of a 1-form
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Graduate Compact Space Hausdorff Preservation
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Graduate Open set is countable union of disjoint open balls
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Graduate Topological Definition of Arc Length
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Graduate Geodesics in non-smooth manifolds
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Graduate Limit Point of a Set: Definition, Center Point & Empty Set
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Graduate Does an N-Cube have Surface Area?
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Graduate Closure of an abelian subgroup
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Graduate Linear Independence of Sets in a Linear Space
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Graduate Finding Limit of Angle Theta in Unit Cube in R^n
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Graduate Which algebraic topology textbook is the best for self-study?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Length of a Curved Fibre in Composite Processes?
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Graduate What is the Factor of F in the Differential Forms Problem on Smooth Manifolds?
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Graduate Can a Klein Bottle be Constructed Using Rectangular Prisms and Circles?
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Graduate Connectedness of the closed interval
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Graduate Relationship between Chern and Levi-Civita Connections on Kahler Manifolds
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Graduate Angle between space-like and time-like vectors
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Graduate Formulas for Cardinality & Topology of a Set
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Graduate The jacobian matrix of partial derivatives?
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Graduate Best books for Differential Geometry?
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Graduate Helix Tracing Helical Trajectory
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Graduate Is an associated bundle isomorphic to the principal bundle?
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Graduate Analytic equation of elliptic-like figure
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Graduate Annoying principal bundle problem
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Graduate Non-Symplectic Flows: Excluded Dynamics in Symplectic Mechanics
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Graduate Why Is the Fundamental Group of a Torus Described as Z+Z Instead of ZxZ?
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Graduate Surface area of a truncated ellipsoid
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Graduate Showing Regularity of X with Order Topology
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Graduate Integration on chains in Spivak's calculus on manifolds
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Graduate Understanding Image of a Curve - Ask Luca
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Graduate Matrix Formalism of Differential Geometry
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Graduate Do Orthogonal Transformation Matrices Imply Transpose Equals Inverse?
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Graduate How Is the Color Domain Used to Graph Complex Functions in Polar Coordinates?
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Graduate Ascoli's theorem: A subspace F of C(X,R^n)
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Graduate Not every metric comes from a norm
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Graduate Is Path Connectedness Enough for Local Path Connectedness?
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Graduate How Can Humanities Scholars Navigate the Complexities of Typology and Topology?
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Graduate Algebraic Geometry: Investigating x_1 and x_2 Generating Structure Sheaf
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Graduate Can the Fundamental Group of a Genus 2 Surface Embed That of a Genus 1 Surface?
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Graduate What Does a Trivial Fundamental Group Indicate About Space X?
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Graduate Algebraic Geometry (2nd question)
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Graduate Trying to get my head around tangent bundles
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Graduate Properties of a volume in 3D Euclidean space
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Graduate Is There a Unique Torsion-Free Affine Connection on a Lie Group?
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Graduate Evaluating T(A,A) and Components of T(A,__) in Minkowski Spacetime
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Graduate Differentiable manifold not riemannian
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Graduate Question whether 2 spaces are diffeomorphic
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Graduate Computating the components of a tensor
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Graduate Alexander Duality & Cup Product: Commuting?
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Graduate Calculating Moment Maps: Worked Examples Needed
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Graduate Proving Compatibility of Charts in a Union of Atlases
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Graduate Fundamental Group of the projective plane after we remove n points?
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Graduate Differential geometry and hamiltonian dynamics
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Graduate Euclidian topology ang cofinite topology
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Graduate Visualizing Immersions vs. Submersions
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Graduate How to compute the metric without an embedding
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Graduate Relating inverse metric to densitized triads
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Graduate Lie derivative of vector field = commutator
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Graduate SO(n) actions on vector bundles
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Graduate Can someone explain this proof to me?
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Graduate Tensor components of a Hodge dual
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Graduate Comparing Tensor Double Dot Scalar Product Definitions
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Graduate How to compute the cohomology of the Klein bottle
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Graduate Proving that the cartesian metric is rotation invariant
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Graduate Local Invariants: Definition, Examples & Curvature
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Graduate How to prove there is no Lebesgue number for open cover (1/n,1)?
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Graduate Physics Major's Questions on Geodesics
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Graduate Divergence Theorem: Show 0 Integral on Closed Surface
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Graduate Nonsqueezing theorem - a proof with the action
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Graduate Construct 2-Fold Cover of M Using H^1(M;Z2)
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Graduate Two topological spaces are homeomorphic
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Graduate Curvature and locally flat spaces
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Graduate Curvilinear coordinates question
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Graduate Verifying Manifold from RP2 to R4 Embedding
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Graduate Is DxD -> R by e(z,w)=|(z-w)/(1-w'z)| a Metric Space?
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Graduate Is There a Smooth Map from S^n to the Equator E of S^n for n ≥ 2?
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Graduate Integral curves and one-parameter groups of diffeomorphisms
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Graduate Understand Isotropic Tensors for Physics
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Graduate Computing tangent spaces of implicitly defined manifolds
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Graduate Lie Algebra Structure of 3-Sphere: Left Invariant Vector Fields
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