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This problem has been addressed before under https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/trouble-understanding-coordinates-for-the-lagrangian.1006528/ I also copied the following problem statement with Landau's very sketchy solution from this old post, because I don't have the English edition of... Read more

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Cecile G. Tamura
13h ago

His revolutionary idea? Before “computer science” was even a field, Church invented the lambda calculus (λ-calculus)—an elegant, abstract system for expressing computation through pure mathematical functions. In 1936, he used it to prove that no universal algorithm could ever decide the truth of all mathematical statements, solving Hilbert’s famous Entscheidungsproblem in the negative. This becam…

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Philosophy of Science

This article proves two no-go results against the conventionality of geometry. I then argue that any remaining conventionality arises from scientific incompleteness. I illustrate by introducing a new kind of conventionality arising in the presence of higher spatial dimensions, where the incompleteness is resolved by introducing new physical theories like Kaluza–Klein theory. Thus, conventional ch…

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Urs Schreiber
1d ago

superalgebra and (synthetic ) supergeometry A supermanifold is a space locally modeled on Cartesian spaces and superpoints. There are different approaches to the definition and theory of supermanifolds in the literature. The definition is popular. The definition has been argued to have advantages, see also the references at super ∞-groupoid. See at geometry of physics – supergeometry the section …

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Introduction: The Timeless Nature of Algorithms When you crack open a standard Data Structures and Algorithms textbook, it’s easy to assume the contents are products of the digital age. But here’s the kicker: many of these algorithms were devised centuries before computers existed . Take the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor—it dates back to 300 BCE . Or the sieve of Era…

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Urs Schreiber
2d ago

synthetic differential geometry Introductions geometry of physics: coordinate systems, smooth spaces, manifolds, smooth homotopy types, supergeometry Differentials Tangency The magic algebraic facts Theorems Axiomatics Models smooth algebra (-ring) differential equations, variational calculus Chern-Weil theory, ∞-Chern-Weil theory Cartan geometry (super, higher) Given a vector space and an elemen…

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Urs Schreiber
4d ago

higher geometry / derived geometry Ingredients Concepts geometric little (∞,1)-toposes geometric big (∞,1)-toposes Constructions Examples derived smooth geometry Theorems Classical groups Finite groups Group schemes Topological groups Lie groups Super-Lie groups Higher groups Cohomology and Extensions Related concepts physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics theory (physics), model (p…

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Urs Schreiber
4d ago

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical) quantum mechanical system, quantum probability interacting field quantization physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics theory (physics), model (physics) experiment, measurement, computable physics Axiomatizations Tools Structural phenomena Types of quantum field thories examples In physics, a scalar field…

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Urs Schreiber
5d ago

physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics theory (physics), model (physics) experiment, measurement, computable physics Axiomatizations Tools Structural phenomena Types of quantum field thories examples The spinning string is a variant of the string in direct analogy (but one worldvolume dimension higher) to how the spinning particle is a variant of the particle. (Which means that “spi…

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Urs Schreiber
5d ago

A random matrix is a matrix-valued random variable. Random matrix theory studies mainly the behaviour of eigenvalues and various functions of random matrices; as such it has large importance in physics. Review: Leonid Petrov, Random Matrices, lecture notes 2019 (pdf slides, pdf, webpage) Madan Lal Mehta, Random matrices, 3rd ed. Pure and Applied Math. (Amsterdam) 142, Elsevier/Academic Press 2004…

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John D. Cook

I ran an experiment today to see whether Claude could generate Lean code to prove a calculation at the bottom of this post, six lines of calculus. I started with this prompt This page contains a mathematical proof that a Fourier coefficient, a_n, is given in terms of a Bessel function. The LaTeX source for […] The post Formally proving a calculation with Claude and Lean first appeared on John D. …

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New mathematical research suggests dark energy may not be needed to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe, challenging the foundations of the standard cosmological model. Mathematicians are questioning whether dark energy is actually responsible for the universe’s accelerating expansion. In a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, researchers at the [...]

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In every cohesive (∞,1)-topos there is an intrinsic notion of ∞-Chern-Weil theory that gives rise to a notion of connection on principal ∞-bundles. We describe here details of the realization of this general abstract structure in the cohesive -topos Smooth∞Grpd of smooth ∞-groupoids. For an ∞-Lie group, a connection on a smooth -principal ∞-bundle is a structure that supports the Chern-Weil homom…

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Urs Schreiber
6d ago

physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics theory (physics), model (physics) experiment, measurement, computable physics Axiomatizations Tools Structural phenomena Types of quantum field thories examples An ordinary gauge field (such as the electromagnetic field or the fields that induce the nuclear force) is a field (in the sense of physics) which is locally represented by a differenti…

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Building a Broadcast Clock: The Math Behind Radio Station Programming Schedules By the KAVANA engineering team -- June 2026 The broadcast clock defines what happens in each minute of an hour: news at :00, traffic at :15, music rotation at :02-:12, commercial break at :20-:24. The implementation challenges are different from general scheduling problems. The Core Constraint: Hard Time Boundaries A …

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Nature

Nature, Published online: 08 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01820-1 Artificial intelligence is not replacing human intuition in these fields, but reimagining how questions are asked, explored and understood.

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