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Slice of pizza with no crust

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Geometric way to view the truncated braid groups?

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Homeomorphic to the disk implies existence of fixed point common to all isometries?

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Does taking the direct limit of chain complexes commute with taking homology?

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Examples of falsified (or currently open) longstanding conjectures leading to large bodies of incorrect results.

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Equivalences and isomorphisms of short exact sequences

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Can the n-string sphere braid group embed in to the (n+1)-string sphere braid group?

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Applications of TQFTs beyond physics

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Properties of the Category of topological spaces with $n$ basepoints.

asked Mar 11, 2013 at 13:42

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Showing that the loopspace $\Omega S^{\infty}$ is homotopic to $S^{\infty}$.

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Higher dimensional analogue of the correspondence between $2$d TQFTs and Frobenius algebras?

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Cohomology of the pullback of a fiber bundle over the torus (generalised Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence?)

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Applying Khovanov homology to two different non-trivial diagrams of the unknot

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Finite strings of integers from $\{1,1,2,2,\ldots,n,n\}$ such that there are $k$ elements between the two $k$s

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Definition of the higher dimensional mapping tori

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Intuition behind a proof showing a square is homeomorphic to a quotient of an interval

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Repetitive tiling implies finite local complexity

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Sufficient condition for a direct limit of abelian groups to be infinitely generated

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How to test if a primitive matrix has an eigenvalue of unit modulus

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If direct limits of matrices are isomorphic, is the direct limit of the transpose matrices also isomorphic?

asked Jul 8, 2014 at 13:31

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Must every infinite subshift contain a non-periodic point?

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When is the space of connected components Hausdorff?

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Is the inverse limit of simplicial maps between finite directed graphs also a graph?

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Exchanging limits when functions may not converge uniformly

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Hyperbolic quadrilaterals with two adjacent right angles

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Method for finding eigenplanes of a linear transformation.

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Labeling edges of a cube with + and - so each face has an odd number of +s.

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Slice of pizza with no crust

Geometric way to view the truncated braid groups?

Homeomorphic to the disk implies existence of fixed point common to all isometries?

Does taking the direct limit of chain complexes commute with taking homology?

Examples of falsified (or currently open) longstanding conjectures leading to large bodies of incorrect results.

Equivalences and isomorphisms of short exact sequences

Can the n-string sphere braid group embed in to the (n+1)-string sphere braid group?

Applications of TQFTs beyond physics

Properties of the Category of topological spaces with $n$ basepoints.

Showing that the loopspace $\Omega S^{\infty}$ is homotopic to $S^{\infty}$.

Higher dimensional analogue of the correspondence between $2$d TQFTs and Frobenius algebras?

Cohomology of the pullback of a fiber bundle over the torus (generalised Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence?)

Applying Khovanov homology to two different non-trivial diagrams of the unknot

Finite strings of integers from $\{1,1,2,2,\ldots,n,n\}$ such that there are $k$ elements between the two $k$s

Definition of the higher dimensional mapping tori

Intuition behind a proof showing a square is homeomorphic to a quotient of an interval

Repetitive tiling implies finite local complexity

Sufficient condition for a direct limit of abelian groups to be infinitely generated

How to test if a primitive matrix has an eigenvalue of unit modulus

If direct limits of matrices are isomorphic, is the direct limit of the transpose matrices also isomorphic?

Must every infinite subshift contain a non-periodic point?

When is the space of connected components Hausdorff?

Is the inverse limit of simplicial maps between finite directed graphs also a graph?

Exchanging limits when functions may not converge uniformly

Hyperbolic quadrilaterals with two adjacent right angles

Method for finding eigenplanes of a linear transformation.

Labeling edges of a cube with + and - so each face has an odd number of +s.