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The Gauss map is a function N from an oriented surface M in Euclidean space R^3 to the unit sphere in R^3. It associates to every point on the surface its oriented unit ...

A cubic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 3. A univariate cubic polynomial has the form f(x)=a_3x^3+a_2x^2+a_1x+a_0. An equation involving a cubic polynomial is called a ...

A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2. A univariate quadratic polynomial has the form f(x)=a_2x^2+a_1x+a_0. An equation involving a quadratic polynomial is ...

A mathematical relationship expressing f_n as some combination of f_i with i<n. When formulated as an equation to be solved, recurrence relations are known as recurrence ...

A metric g_(ij) which is zero for i!=j.

The operator D=-i(d+d^*), where d^* is the adjoint.

Two nonsingular forms are equivalent over the rationals iff they have the same determinant and the same p-signatures for all p.

J_(nualphabeta)^mu=J_(nubetaalpha)^mu=1/2(R_(alphanubeta)^mu+R_(betanualpha)^mu), where R is the Riemann tensor.

Orthogonal contravariant and covariant satisfy g_(ik)g^(ij)=delta_k^j, where delta_j^k is the Kronecker delta.

A tensor g whose discriminant satisfies g=g_(11)g_(22)-g_(12)^2>0.