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John Baez
Добавлен 1 апр 2021
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-11-27
If we give the topos of ℕ-sets its double negation topology, apparently sheaves with respect to this topology are ℤ-sets. It is also interesting to study the double negation topology on the category of Set-valued functors on the category of finite fields, or finite fields of characteristic p:
Olivia Caramello, Topological Galois theory, arxiv.org/abs/1301.0300
Investigating zeta functions arising from 2-rigs. Say a 2-rig is a symmetric monoidal cocomplete category enriched over abelian groups. Then - morally speaking, at least - any 2-rig R comes from an algebraic stack, and the groupoid of 'points' of this stack over a commutative ring k is the groupoid of 2-rig maps from R to kMod. If our...
Olivia Caramello, Topological Galois theory, arxiv.org/abs/1301.0300
Investigating zeta functions arising from 2-rigs. Say a 2-rig is a symmetric monoidal cocomplete category enriched over abelian groups. Then - morally speaking, at least - any 2-rig R comes from an algebraic stack, and the groupoid of 'points' of this stack over a commutative ring k is the groupoid of 2-rig maps from R to kMod. If our...
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John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-11-20
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Zeta functions and structure types. There is a kind of structure R_L we can put on finite sets, i.e. a species in Joyal's sense, such that an R_L-structure on a finite set is a way of making it into a finite field. We can extract from this a Dirichlet series: ncatlab.org/johnbaez/show/Dirichlet species and the Hasse-Weil zeta function The exponential of this is the Riemann zeta function. The sl...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-11-13
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More on possible relations between tuning systems and Coxeter groups. Just intonation involves a group homomorphism from ℤ² to GL(1,ℝ), sending the first generator to 5/4 (a just major third) and the second to 6/5 (a just minor third). Similarly equal temperament involves a group homomorphism ℤ² to GL(1,ℝ) sending the first generator to 2^(1/3) (an equal-tempered major third) and the second to ...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-11-06
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More digressions on the mathematics of tuning systems. Possible relations between just intonation and Coxeter groups - see the series starting here: johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/10/07/pythagorean-tuning/ How the PLR group acts on the Tonnetz (or 'tone net'): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz alpof.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/an-introduction-to-neo-riemannian-theory-9/ Triads as a torsor of the di...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-10-09
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Chat about tuning systems, especially just intonation. The category of commutative separable algebras has special commutative Frobenius algebras as objects but algebra homomorphisms (not necessarily preserving the coalgebra structure) as morphisms, so 'separability' is being treated as a mere *property* of an algebra, namely the property that their *exists* a special Frobenius structure. We set...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-10-02
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The spectrum of a special commutative Frobenius algebra is a finite example of a Stone space, i.e. a compact Hausdorff space that is totally separated (which in the conversation we called 'totally disconnected'): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_space Alternatively, a special commutative Frobenius algebra gives a scheme X where the diagonal D ⊆ X × X has a complement in the category of schemes. Spec...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-09-14
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Kähler differentials generalize 1-forms to an arbitrary commutative algebra A over a general commutative ring k: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kähler_differential But there are even more general differentials that work for an arbitrary algebra A over k, used in noncommutative geometry. They are a universal object for derivations from A to (A,A)-bimodules. This universal derivation is obtained from D: A...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-08-31
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Getting special commutative Frobenius algebras from torsors of the group N!, meaning the symmetric group S_N, over the field k = ℚ. We can do this from using a map from a map of Vect-valued props. This map goes from the prop for special commutative Frobenius algebras, described for example in Proposition 6.1 here: Brandon Coya and Brendan Fong, Corelations are the prop for extraspecial commutat...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-08-17
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Recall from last time that N! is another name for the symmetric group S_N, a '2-rig' over a field k is a symmetric monoidal cocomplete k-linear category, and an 'N!-torsor' in a 2-rig R over k is a map of 2-rigs from the 2-rig of representations of N! over k to R. We are trying to get special commutative Frobenius algebras in a 2-rig R from N!-torsors in R, for example when k = ℚ. Can we descri...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-08-10
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A vector bundle of "subdimension n" is one where the fibers are vector spaces of dimension at most n. Should we think of these as generically having the largest possible dimension, or the lowest possible dimension? We can treat commutative separable algebras over a commutative algebra A over Q as 'finite sets over Spec(A)'. How can we understand finite sets of cardinality N over Spec(A)? Writin...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-08-03
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The philosophy of separable algebras and how they're connected to Galois theory. How Carboni got a Boolean pretopos by taking the opposite of the category of separable commutative k-algebras over a field k, or some generalization of that, like etale algebras over a commutative ring: Aurelio Carboni, Matrices, relations, and group representations, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002186...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-07-13
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Azumaya-Brauer-Picard theory: Niles Johnson, Azumaya objects in triangulated bicategories, arxiv.org/abs/1005.4878. John Baez, Grothendieck-Galois-Brauer Theory (Part 1), golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2023/06/grothendieckgaloisbrauer_theor.html nLab, Picard 3-group, ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Picard 3-group Studying an abelian cubic extension of the Gaussian field Q[i]. For more on this whole series ...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-07-07
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Artin reciprocity: classifying abelian extensions of the Gaussian field. Azumaya-Brauer-Picard theory: Niles Johnson, Azumaya objects in triangulated bicategories, arxiv.org/abs/1005.4878. John Baez, Grothendieck-Galois-Brauer Theory (Part 1), golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2023/06/grothendieckgaloisbrauer_theor.html nLab, Picard 3-group, ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Picard 3-group For more on this whol...
Life's Struggle to Survive
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When pondering our future amid global warming, it is worth remembering how we got here. Even after it got started, the success of life on Earth was not a foregone conclusion! In this talk I recount some thrilling, chilling episodes from the history of our planet. For example: our collision with the planet Theia, the "snowball Earth events" when most of the oceans froze over, and the asteroid im...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-29
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Artin reciprocity: classifying abelian extensions of the Gaussian field. Azumaya-Brauer-Picard theory: Niles Johnson, Azumaya objects in triangulated bicategories, arxiv.org/abs/1005.4878. John Baez, Grothendieck-Galois-Brauer Theory (Part 1), golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2023/06/grothendieckgaloisbrauer_theor.html nLab, Picard 3-group, ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Picard 3-group For more on this whol...
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-22
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John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-22
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-15
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John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-15
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-08
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John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-08
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-01
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John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-06-01
John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-05-25
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John Baez and James Dolan, 2023-05-25
This Week's Finds 18: categorifying the quantum harmonic oscillator
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This Week's Finds 18: categorifying the quantum harmonic oscillator
This Week's Finds 17: counting derangements
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This Week's Finds 17: counting derangements
The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything
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The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything
This Week's Finds 16: species and their generating functions
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This Week's Finds 16: species and their generating functions
This Week's Finds 15: combinatorics, groupoid cardinality and species
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This Week's Finds 15: combinatorics, groupoid cardinality and species
This Week's Finds 14: the 3-strand braid group
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This Week's Finds 14: the 3-strand braid group
This Week's Finds 13: topology and the periodic table of n-categories
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This Week's Finds 13: topology and the periodic table of n-categories
This Week's Finds 12: the periodic table of n-categories
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This Week's Finds 12: the periodic table of n-categories