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Graduate S^n not a mapping cylinder. S^n and homeom. subspaces
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Graduate Taking the Trace of a Tensor Product
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Graduate Transformations involving singular points
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Graduate Circles in Non-Euclidean Geometry
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Graduate Simple question about definition of tangent bundle
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Graduate Sample Topological Spaces: X,t,G,F
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Graduate A problem about integral curves on a manifold
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Graduate What Defines a One-Form in Multivariable Calculus and Differential Geometry?
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Graduate Connection between Lie-Brackets an Embeddings
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Graduate What Is the Usual Metric on the Sphere That do Carmo Doesn't Mention?
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Graduate Representations of the lorentz group
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Graduate Sphere Radius = 1 centered at origin
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Graduate The topology of rational numbers: connected sets
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Graduate Is K Open or Closed? A Topology GRE Question
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Graduate Distance between polygons in 3d? (points of contact as a function of time)
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Graduate How to Rotate a Vector in Different Coordinate Spaces?
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Graduate Partitions of unity: support of a function
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Graduate Tensor Indices Switch with Infinitesimals and Space-Time Derivatives
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Graduate Why does stereographic projection preserve angles but not area?
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Graduate Differential geometry in quantum mechanics - conserved quantities
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Graduate Help with a special kind of Torus
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Graduate How Do Completely Regular Hausdorff Spaces Relate to Compact Hausdorff Spaces?
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Graduate How does one calculate the distance (or length) on the ground
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Graduate Proving \alpha^i = v x^i on tangent vector space T_pM"
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Graduate Area section of a sphere used for integration?
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Graduate Understanding the Degree of a Continuous Map g:Circle --> Circle
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Graduate What are the real-world implications of tangent vectors to a manifold?
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Graduate Something I read somewhere about Spin manifolds, I don't remember where?
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Graduate Elementary questions about fibre bundles
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Graduate Space filling curves: two and a half questions
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Graduate Projective Space: CP1, Homeomorphism to 2-Sphere?
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Graduate How Do Tensor and Wedge Products Relate in Differential Geometry?
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Graduate A question of the complete metric space
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Graduate Short question about Laplacians
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Graduate What Is the Easiest Topology Textbook?
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Graduate Why is the cusp not a submanifold?
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Graduate Topological transform of singular points?
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Graduate Ricci-Tensor from Riemann in higher dimensional flat space
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Graduate Banach Space that is NOT Hilbert
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Graduate Another implememntation of van Kampen thoerem.
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Graduate Proving C(X) is a Banach Space for Compact Hausdorff X
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Graduate Can Trilateration Determine the Angle in a Dynamic Circle Problem?
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Graduate Proving Simple Connectedness: Intersection and Union of Two Spaces
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Graduate Nontriviality of the Möbius bundle without orientability
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Graduate What is the relationship between open and dense sets in R^n?
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Graduate Is the product of two open sets open?
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Graduate Where did the error occur in calculating the Lie derivative using an example?
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Graduate Connected components of a manifold
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Graduate Action of Clifford-elements on vectors & spinors
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Graduate How Do Torsion Concepts Differ in Algebra and Differential Geometry?
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Graduate What are the 'closed geodesic' ?
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Graduate What Are Differential Forms and How Do They Apply in Differential Geometry?
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Graduate Working with the inverses of composite functions
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Graduate Can every isometry in the plane be composed of at most three reflections?
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Graduate How Do Basis and Topology Definitions Interact in Set Theory?
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Graduate Differential Geometry: Show Regular Curve is Invertible
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Graduate Finding new major axis of ellipse after stretching along arbitrary axis
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Graduate How Can I Define a Topology on N with Exactly k Limit Points?
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Graduate The universal property characterizing the quotient topology
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Graduate Comma notation in tensor expression?
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Graduate Analogy between vectors and covectors
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Graduate Formal definitions of cutting and pasting etc
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Graduate Visualising calabi yau manifolds
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Graduate Is the Finite Cartesian Product of Simply Connected Sets Also Simply Connected?
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Graduate Understanding Functional Determinants in Mathematics
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Graduate What is the equation for a möbius strip with a constant bend?
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Trace of an Arbitrary Tensor?
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Graduate Degree of a Map: Directly Proving k is Degree of f
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Graduate Integrating a 2-form on a 2-cube
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Graduate Conformal Equivalence: Help with Penrose's Road to Reality
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Graduate What is the Definition of 'Cos' in Hyperbolic Geometry?
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Graduate How Do Covariant and Contravariant Vectors Differ in Tensor Calculus?
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Graduate Conservative vector field; classification of derivative
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Graduate Ellipse: geometric equivalence of two definitions
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Graduate Orientability and Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds
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Graduate Can Sard's Theorem Confirm Submanifolds as Measure Zero?
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Graduate Visualizing left action of SO(3) on itself
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Graduate Total Derivative in Curvilinear Coordinates
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Graduate Transforming Index to Matrix Form for Amateurs
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Graduate Cylindrical section is an ellipse?
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Graduate Covariant vectors vs reciprocal vectors
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Graduate Produce Scalar from Tensor: What's the Name?
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Graduate Indices in differential geometry
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Graduate Hyperbolic Circle <=> Euclidean Circle.
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Graduate Hyperbolic Distance and double Cross Ratio.
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Graduate Finding the Point That Divides an Interval in Hyperbolic Geometry
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Graduate The Exterior Covariant Derivative: Understanding Connections and Fibre Bundles
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Graduate Vanishing measure of a set with codimenon 2
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Graduate Show that there is no immersion of S^n into R^n
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Graduate Is the Inverse Jacobian used to Transform Flat Space into Curved Space?
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Graduate Dimension of a topological space
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Graduate Form of line element of a torus.
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Graduate Simple connectivity and finite coverings
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Graduate Can the homotopy extension property fail on certain pairs of spaces?
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Graduate Guide to CW Complexes and n-Cells
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Graduate Understanding the Smash Product of Two Topological Spaces
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Graduate Divergence of mixed II-order tensors
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Graduate Negative Curvature: Can We Draw an Infinite Triangle?
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Graduate Gaining Intuitive Understanding of Parallel Transporting Tensors
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Graduate About the implicit function theorem
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