• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      Disciplines in mathematics assume you’re familiar with that discipline’s shorthand, constants and common forms. Also, you’re not expected to read them as you’re able to read a book. If it’s 100% your niche specialty then maybe you could, but spending and hour or two puzzling out a broad understanding of a paper is absolutely normal, even for math academics.

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        It can feel like that, though I’m sure it’s (mostly) not deliberate. Also the sudden jump from straightforward to incomprehensible, accompanied by a comment from the author along the lines of “well duh”

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    Gronk has one club.

    Gronk brutally smashed the head of his fellow caveman, murdering his tribe, stealing his food, taking his club.

    Gronk has two club.

    Mahts.

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    Come on, you can’t just leave those dummy indices dangling, at least sum over them with a kronecker delta or the minkowski metric if this is some approximation of curved space.

    (2) Appears to have a typo, but it could just be that the sqrt symbol won’t extend further, which isn’t good either lol

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      This is absolutely taking the piss. “No calculus is required” is obviously not true when there’s, what, five integrals on the page?

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    If this is indeed real, can somebody please point me to the paper/text? That introduction has piqued my curiosity and I wanna read the whole thing, even if the math might be incomprehensible.

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    The square you root in the second equation should go over the both integrals, but that step is pointless anyways. Just by symmetryzing the integration boundaries it’s already a Gaussian integral, which is a standard integral