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  2. Vertex figure - Wikipedia

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    These are seen as the vertices of the vertex figure. Related to the vertex figure, an edge figure is the vertex figure of a vertex figure. [3] Edge figures are useful for expressing relations between the elements within regular and uniform polytopes. An edge figure will be a (n−2)-polytope, representing the arrangement of facets around a ...

  3. Paraboloid - Wikipedia

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    In this position, the hyperbolic paraboloid opens downward along the x-axis and upward along the y-axis (that is, the parabola in the plane x = 0 opens upward and the parabola in the plane y = 0 opens downward). Any paraboloid (elliptic or hyperbolic) is a translation surface, as it can be generated by a moving parabola directed by a second ...

  4. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    In the theory of quadratic forms, the parabola is the graph of the quadratic form x 2 (or other scalings), while the elliptic paraboloid is the graph of the positive-definite quadratic form x 2 + y 2 (or scalings), and the hyperbolic paraboloid is the graph of the indefinite quadratic form x 2 − y 2. Generalizations to more variables yield ...

  5. Quadratic function - Wikipedia

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    () = + is called the vertex form, where h and k are the x and y coordinates of the vertex, respectively. The coefficient a is the same value in all three forms. To convert the standard form to factored form , one needs only the quadratic formula to determine the two roots r 1 and r 2 .

  6. Quadrature of the Parabola - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line. To find the area of a parabolic segment, Archimedes considers a certain inscribed triangle. The base of this triangle is the given chord of the parabola, and the third vertex is the point on the parabola such that the tangent to the parabola at that point is parallel to the chord.

  7. Parabolic reflector - Wikipedia

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    The vertex of the paraboloid is below the bottom edge of the dish. The curvature of the dish is greatest near the vertex. The axis, which is aimed at the satellite, passes through the vertex and the receiver module, which is at the focus. A circular paraboloid is theoretically unlimited in size. Any practical reflector uses just a segment of it.

  8. Neighbourhood (graph theory) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, in the octahedron graph, shown in the figure, each vertex has a neighbourhood isomorphic to a cycle of four vertices, so the octahedron is locally C 4. For example: Any complete graph K n is locally K n-1. The only graphs that are locally complete are disjoint unions of complete graphs. A Turán graph T(rs,r) is locally T((r-1)s,r ...

  9. Vertex operator algebra - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a vertex operator algebra (VOA) is an algebraic structure that plays an important role in two-dimensional conformal field theory and string theory.In addition to physical applications, vertex operator algebras have proven useful in purely mathematical contexts such as monstrous moonshine and the geometric Langlands correspondence.