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New year, new tag management thread.

Rules of the game are basically the same:

  • Post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
    • A particularly bad tag (a rule of thumb: «if I can't imagine a person classifying a tag as either interesting or ignored, I'm getting rid of it»),
    • A tag that should be a synonym of an existing one,
    • A tag that used for two or more completely unrelated things,
    • A need to create a new tag;
  • Upvote/downvote/comment as your agree/disagree with suggestions, so please post different suggestions in separate answers;
  • Wait a couple of days before implementing a suggestion.
  • After the problem described in an answer is resolved, please edit it to say so.
  • If your tag suggestion exists in a separate question, please provide a link to the question in your suggestion.

See also:

Also, note that one may use [tag:calculus] for , i.e. tags on the main site, and [meta-tag:discussion] for , i.e. for tags on the meta site.

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Proposal to blacklist

Reason: It's overly broad and there is no real mathematical content in it. Also, the tag has been created and removed several times.

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    $\begingroup$ As currently defined, it doesn't seem likely to be useful or consistently applied. It doesn't mean what I'd expect it to either, which would be something about dentifying different classes of theorem or proof and generic approaches to generalising ttem. So it's possibly a misleading tag too. $\endgroup$
    – timtfj
    Jan 31, 2019 at 2:07
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    $\begingroup$ I will add a link to the previous post about this tag: Is “generalization” a good tag? $\endgroup$ Jan 31, 2019 at 4:03
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Resolved. All questions with have been retagged to (or neither tag, in a few cases where the tag was inappropriate) and will be automatically deleted soon

Apparently we have tags and , with 10 and 20 questions respectively (including 1 with both), different tag excerpts, and a tag wiki for the first one only. I don't know the topic very well, but the excerpts seem to describe essentially the same context. Should these tags be merged?

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Resolved: renamed to .

For consistency with other multiple-word tags. Separating words with hyphens increases readability.

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Resolved. has been renamed .

Proposal: rename "generalizedeigenvector" to "generalized-eigenvector"

Pledge originally initiated by WillG in this suggested tag wiki excerpt edit. I support this proposal since it's a common pratice to separate words with hyphens in tag names in order to increase readability, like , , , etc.

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Resolved. The tags and have been renamed and , respectively.

Proposal: pluralize and

Putting names of mathematical objects in their plural form is a common practice, e.g. . We should treat "triangles" and "polygons" equally.

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Resolved. is now .

Proposal: pluralize

Because… well, you know: there are two of them.

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Resolved: has been merged into , a synonym created, and tag wiki updated.

Proposal: synonymize with

Notice that they are indeed different tags, as the former has user guidance, the latter doesn't. But they are essentially the same thing, i.e. a numerical method to solve first-order first-degree differential equations with a given initial value.

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Resolved: The tag synonym was created.

I suggest a synonym $\to$ .

The tag (dg-algebras) was created in July 2017 (shortly before allowed length of tag names was increased). A short tag-excerpt was also created at the time. The tag (differential-graded-algebras) was created recently (July 2019).

It seems clear that both tags are intended for the same meaning. Hence they should be synonymized. (Probably the tag with full name might be more suitable for the master tag - although I'd guess that either way would be acceptable.)

I'll add that synonym between the tags with these names exists on MathOverflow.

Since the two tag names are probably due to change in the character limit for tag names, I'll add also a link to the thread about Expanding abbreviated tag names.

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    $\begingroup$ Done as proposed. $\endgroup$
    – quid Mod
    Jul 7, 2019 at 19:18
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Partially resolved. has been synonymized into . A consensus has not yet been reached on the name change to .

Proposal: rename "topological-quantum-field-theory" to "topological-quantum-field-theories" and synonymise it with the tag "tqft"

An old question of mine recently had a couple of attempts to change the tags, which were approved (and I agree). In the process, the new tag was created, which I agree is better than the previous tag. However, a topological quantum field theory is a mathematical object like a group or a functor, and so the tag should be pluralised to distinguish it from a subject.

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    $\begingroup$ Wait, theories? $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Mar 7, 2019 at 14:04
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    $\begingroup$ @AsafKaragila A topological quantum field theory is a functor from a cobordism category to a category of vector spaces (with some extra properties). There are many such functors, and so one usually wants to study them as a class of objects. $\endgroup$
    – Dan Rust
    Mar 7, 2019 at 14:13
  • $\begingroup$ There is already a separate post which is related to this: Some ideas on tags about physical field theory. I will add that creating a synonym between this tag and (tqft) seems like a reasonable idea. (So that both names are left in the system.) $\endgroup$ Mar 7, 2019 at 14:14
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    $\begingroup$ The first sentence made me cry from the inside, I have to admit. It's always a bit weird when your topic is the object. Group theorists don't study "group theories" per se, they study groups. And category theorists don't study "theories of category" per se, they study categories. Sure, you could argue that in fact we study the theories (is this consistent, does this imply that, etc.) but in reality we think about them in semantic terms. So it just surprises me every time when the "theory" part is the object, rather than the syntactic backbone of the object. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Mar 7, 2019 at 14:15
  • $\begingroup$ @MartinSleziak thanks I hadn't seen that recent post (which explains why the recent edits were made). I agree that it should be a synonym, so I've edited this post. Asaf, I agree the naming convention is... unfortunate. I think this is a holdover from its history in physics. In fact it's possible that physicists may still study TQFT as a 'subject' rather than as an object. I'm not enough of an expert to comment on that. $\endgroup$
    – Dan Rust
    Mar 7, 2019 at 14:46
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    $\begingroup$ @Andrews I think the usage is different. A TQFT is an 'object' which is studied in mathematics as one member of a class of objects. A particular string theory is a sub-discipline of the subject-area 'string theory' and is not an 'object'. $\endgroup$
    – Dan Rust
    Mar 7, 2019 at 16:00
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    $\begingroup$ Still, "topological quantum field theory" as the subject seems to be widely used. For example, googling "topological quantum field theories" returns mostly articles titled "topological quantum field theory", some of which are written by reputable mathematicians (e.g. Aatiyah). Are you suggesting that the subject form is not used among mathematicians working on that subject? (What do they call it then?) $\endgroup$
    – Alexander Gruber Mod
    Mar 24, 2019 at 22:19
  • $\begingroup$ @AlexanderGruber It's a good question and I don't feel close enough to give an answer. My limited exposure to TQFTs has always been as objects that are studied within category theory/low dimensional topology, but obviously there is a history in mathematical physics to consider. Atiyah's paper is maybe not the best reference point as it was literally the introduction of the definition and things have evolved greatly since then, such as Lurie's classification. Perhaps it's best to check which questions have already been tagged and try to work out which usage seems to be most prevalent. $\endgroup$
    – Dan Rust
    Mar 25, 2019 at 0:24
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    $\begingroup$ If someone with a bit more authority on TQFTs would like to offer their suggestion, that would also be useful. Alternatively, we could make a community wiki post and ask people to vote up/down for their preference. $\endgroup$
    – Dan Rust
    Mar 25, 2019 at 0:24
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Proposal to remove (or even blacklist)

It is a meta tag and it is a bad one. I sincerely ask the creator to stop retagging old questions until we have an actual discussion.

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    $\begingroup$ As of now it has 0 tagged question. Let's hope they will stop now. $\endgroup$ Jun 27, 2019 at 16:34
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    $\begingroup$ For people who are unaware of the meaning of the phrase "meta tag" I will add a link to the relevant FAQ post: The “meta-tags”.. I'll also mention this question by the tag-creator: Relating to create a new tag. $\endgroup$ Jun 29, 2019 at 3:43
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Resolved (mostly) Creation of a tag . Merge of the GCD part, not yet merged the LCM part, in case some objection emerges. The tag wiki might need some (more) attention.


Proposal: merge and

We tend to combine homologus objects into one tag, like , and . It's well known that $ab = \gcd(a,b) \times \mathrm{lcm}(a,b)$, so knowing the implies the same for , and vice versa.

The majority of questions are also tagged with .

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    $\begingroup$ A related previous post: On (gcd) and (greatest-common-divisor) and other similar tags. $\endgroup$ Jun 14, 2019 at 13:09
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    $\begingroup$ Maybe to gcd-and-lcm? $\endgroup$
    – Alexander Gruber Mod
    Aug 15, 2019 at 17:12
  • $\begingroup$ @quid I just put a little bit of time into the tag wiki, but I am wondering if, perhaps, the tag info should be completely rewritten? Right now, it looks like a hodge-podge of facts about the gcd and lcm, without much in the way of guidance about how to use the tag. I'm not sure what would be better, but perhaps someone more intimate with these topics should have a look? $\endgroup$
    – Xander Henderson Mod
    Aug 31, 2019 at 14:31
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Proposal: Add the tag ; make , and aliases thereof.

Edit 2: I've revised the proposal statement to Alexander Gruber's (in my view superior) suggestion in the comments. Implementing this proposal poses some advantages over the status quo:

  • It would (productively) free the > 6k questions about the gradient from the rather broad tag .
  • It would resolve the weird asymmetry of the tagging situations of the three operators.
  • It would reflect the close pedagogical relationship of the three operators, as Alexander pointed out in the comments: In practice many questions about one operators at least implicitly involve one of the others.
  • It should in principle resolve the persistent problem of users erroneously using the tag for questions about convergence and divergence in the analytic sense.

Proposed tag-excerpt:

The gradient, curl, and divergence are first-order differential operators that play a fundamental role in vector calculus and its generalizations.

Proposed tag-wiki:

In vector calculus and in differential geometry, the gradient, curl, and divergence are fundamental first-order differential operators.

  • The gradient acts on differentiable (scalar) functions, producing vector fields that encode the direction and magnitude of maximum increase of the function. It can be regarded as a special case of the Jacobian and of the covariant derivative.
  • The curl acts on vector fields and yields vector fields that measure the direction and magnitude of rotation. Unlike the other two operators, the curl is only defined in $3$-dimensions, but it has an analog in $2$ dimensions that is sometimes also called the curl.
  • The divergence acts on vector fields and produces functions that measure the quantity of the fields' source at each point.

These operators have been fruitfully generalized to broader settings. For example, generalizations of the gradient appear in distribution theory and functional analysis, and their applications include the method of gradient ascent (descent) in optimization theory.


Edit After the discussion in the comments here and in the Tagging chat room, I went to create this tag, only to find that it was assigned as a synonym for in 2014. That same discussion comprises an argument for de-synonymizing , i.e., letting it function as an independent tag. The topic is certainly broad enough: ~6.5k questions mention the gradient; ~4.4k questions tagged with . Barring this, it would only be consistent to make and synonyms of vector-analysis, too.


This tag is intended for questions about or involving the gradient operator, which is a major theme in vector calculus and also important differential geometry. Probably most questions using this tag would also be tagged with or , but this operation is particularly important and arises commonly in such questions.

The tag-excerpt would read something like:

The gradient is a first-order differential operator that measures that rate and direction of fastest increase of a differentiable function.

The tag-wiki would read something like:

In vector calculus and in differential geometry, the gradient is a differential operator generalizing the derivative that acts on differentiable (scalar) functions, producing vector fields. The gradient of a function at a point is a vector that encodes the direction in which the function increases the most rapidly as well as the rate of increase; as such the gradient of a function is a special case of the Jacobian. The gradient has been fruitfully generalized to distribution theory and functional analysis, and applications include the method of gradient ascent (descent) in optimization theory.

Some model questions for this tag could include:

(At the moment the first of these is tagged with , which is not appropriate, since the question is not asking about the gradient flow o.d.e., and that choice of tag probably reflects the gap that the proposed tag aims to fill.)

The analogous differential operators in ($3$D) vector calculus already have their own tag:

suggesting that a tag is not too granular. (NB glancing at the search results show that the is frequently misapplied, to questions about analytic convergence/divergence. Cf. Arnaud D.'s helpful comment.) Naive searches of questions for the three terms give $\sim6.5$k results containing $\texttt{gradient}$, which suggests wide applicability.

By contrast, question searches find

(Again, the latter of these includes many questions about divergence in the analytic sense.) These figures also suggest that if we do not add a tag, then for consistency and should be removed, thought that change would entail a loss of usability in my view.

When I first raised the proposal in the Tagging chat room, Martin Sleziak helpfully pointed out that the tag was previously used in 2013 but then quickly removed in an edit.

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    $\begingroup$ Note that divergence can cause some confusion, so there have been suggestions to remove it. But gradient seems quite reasonable to me. $\endgroup$
    – Arnaud D.
    Nov 20, 2019 at 22:51
  • $\begingroup$ Perhaps divergence could be split into convergence-and-divergence for issues related to convergence of sequences/series (so, a synonym of convergence) and we could retain divergence (per the tag description) or change it to divergence-operator for questions about the vector calculus/DG operator? $\endgroup$ Nov 20, 2019 at 23:04
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    $\begingroup$ In the question linked by Arnaud D., there is a suggestion to rename (convergence) to (convergence-divergence) in a comment by quid. A the top-voted answer suggests to rename (divergence) to some name which makes clear that it is about vector calculus nad not about series. (Nevertheless, this is only tangential here, but I considered it worth mentioning since the previous comments discuss the (divergence) tag.) $\endgroup$ Nov 20, 2019 at 23:14
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    $\begingroup$ Right, the suggestion from that answer part of what motivated the suggestion divergence-operator, which I like better than the suggestions for the tag name given there. $\endgroup$ Nov 21, 2019 at 1:45
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    $\begingroup$ Well, I did not see that coming LOL. $\endgroup$ Dec 3, 2019 at 20:18
  • $\begingroup$ You're right that divergence and curl have no business existing if gradient doesn't, but because they are so related pedagogically, my instinct is more to wrap them up into one tag than to emancipate gradient. Probably vector-analysis is not quite right, but how would y'all feel about something like div-grad-curl? $\endgroup$
    – Alexander Gruber Mod
    Dec 5, 2019 at 6:35
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    $\begingroup$ (Potentially bringing about the best synonym ever: ▽⋅▽▽×.) $\endgroup$
    – Alexander Gruber Mod
    Dec 5, 2019 at 6:44
  • $\begingroup$ @AlexanderGruber That's a better suggestion than mine, not least because a nontrivial fraction of the questions about these operators at least implicitly involve more than one of them (often via the composition identities $\operatorname{curl} \circ \operatorname{grad} = 0$ and $\operatorname{div} \circ \operatorname{curl} = 0$). But I would strongly recommend listing the operators in the canonical order in the tag name, i.e., grad-curl-div. $\endgroup$ Dec 5, 2019 at 6:47
  • $\begingroup$ (Of course, I make no claim that ▽▽×▽⋅ is a more attractive synonym.) $\endgroup$ Dec 5, 2019 at 6:48
  • $\begingroup$ I've updated the proposal to reflect Alexander's improvements to the suggestion, and I've thrown together a sample tag-excerpt and tag-wiki. I've left the rest of the post the same; some of it is now outdated, but the current intent should be clear from context. $\endgroup$ Dec 5, 2019 at 7:12
  • $\begingroup$ (Apparently posting in this thread is a good way to earn the Necromancer badge.) $\endgroup$ Dec 5, 2019 at 18:44
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Resolved: , , , and are now , , , and , respectively.

Proposal: pluralize , , , and .

(To match , , , , and , as well as the general philosophy of having things be plural.)

I'm actually not super convinced signed graphs are common enough to deserve their own tag, but if they are to have one it should be consistent with the other tags.

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Partially Resolved: is now , but the tag still lacks usage and a wiki.

Proposal: rename "singularvalues" to "singular-values"

There's no usage guidance and tag wiki yet.

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Resolved; and are created

Proposal : tag(s) for accessible and locally presentable categories

A couple months ago someone created (among others) the tags locally presentable categories and accessible categories, but they were removed. Now this is not really my specialty, but I think these tags could be useful, and in fact I was surprised to learn from Martin Sleziak that this was the first time they appeared.

Both topics give some search results on the site, and there seems to be no tag more precise than "category theory" on the questions about them. By the way, the tags exist on MO, and there are also a book and a lot of articles on the subject.

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    – Arnaud D.
    Mar 26, 2019 at 23:12
  • $\begingroup$ And now I've added the tag "accessible categories". $\endgroup$
    – Arnaud D.
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Proposal: make a synonym of .

In theory, there is a distinction between these tags, with referring to just differentiable manifolds and also including topological manifolds. In practice, the distinction does not matter for many questions and alone is very frequently used for questions that are actually only about smooth manifolds. For example, looking at the 10 most recent questions, 8 of them seem to be primarily or entirely about smooth manifolds but only 3 of them are also tagged . If you want to use tags to signal that you are interested specifically in smooth manifolds, there are also other ways to do so, for instance using or .

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    $\begingroup$ If the majority of "manifolds" questions seem to be about "smooth-manifolds", then maybe the synonym should go the other way around, and a separate tag "topological-manifolds" be introduced? $\endgroup$ Jul 11, 2019 at 13:29
  • $\begingroup$ Willie Wong's suggestion seems sensible to me. $\endgroup$ Sep 16, 2019 at 19:35
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Proposal: I suggest to create a synonym between and . (I am not really sure which direction is better.)

The tag has been on the site for some time, you can see that the tag-excerpt and the tag-wiki have been created in 2013. The tag has been created recently (July 2019).

As far as I can tell, the two names are often used as synonyms. Even the tag-excerpt for (linear-groups) says that: "A linear group or matrix group is a group $G$ whose elements are invertible $n \times n$ matrices over a field $F$."

It's possible that sometimes people make distinction between the two terms. The Wikipedia article Linear group says: "In mathematics, a matrix group is a group G consisting of invertible matrices over a specified field K, with the operation of matrix multiplication, and a linear group is an abstract group that is isomorphic to a matrix group over a field K, in other words, admitting a faithful, finite-dimensional representation over K." However, from the tag-info I gather that the intended usage of the tag (linear-groups) was for groups of matrices.

Since both names are used, I suppose that having a synonym might be useful. (A user posting a question will be able to find the tag both if they starts typing "matrix" and if they start typing "linear".)

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Resolved. was removed.

Proposal: remove "continuoustime" tag

The tag has zero questions currently.

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    $\begingroup$ If a tag has no question it dissappears after a day. There is no way for us to remove a tag "more" than having no more questions with it. (Note that the page would still exist, eg this-tag-does-not-exist.) $\endgroup$
    – quid Mod
    Feb 25, 2019 at 19:21
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    $\begingroup$ To add to, here is an older post with a more detailed explanation: Deleting Tags after being created. $\endgroup$ Feb 26, 2019 at 2:27
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Resolved: is now created.

Proposal: Create "mirror symmetry" tag

mirror symmetry is already a tag in MO, and there're already several questions about it now in MSE: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5).

Here is an introductory to mirror symmetry mathematically which says mirror symmetry introduces a correspondence between complex geometry and symplectic geometry, so actually it doesn't require strong physical background in string theory (physically).


I've already created and begin to add this tag to relevant questions gradually, and welcome to improve tag info and usage :)

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  • $\begingroup$ I will add a link to a short conversation about this tag in the tagging chatroom: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3740/conversation/… $\endgroup$ Mar 23, 2019 at 10:25
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    $\begingroup$ This is probably obvious, but the tag-info should clearly say what the tag is intended for. (Since many users when seeing the tag called mirror-symmetry will use it for problems related to reflections w.r.t. line/plane in geometry and not about the use in string theory, algebraic geometry and related areas.) So maybe it might be useful to suggest what the tag-excerpt and tag-wiki might look like. $\endgroup$ Mar 23, 2019 at 10:47
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    $\begingroup$ A way which could decrease the likelihood of such misuse of this new tag would be choosing a longer name which makes this distinction clear. (There are already a few such tags, for example, we have (lattice-orders) and (integer-lattices instead of just (lattices). Or (magma) and (magma-cas) to distinguish two different meanings of the word magma.) But I have to admit that I don't have a suggestion of a suitable name which would distinguish this tag from symmetry in geometry. $\endgroup$ Mar 23, 2019 at 10:48
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    $\begingroup$ Can you set up a more descriptive tag info? For example, please list several different aspects of the subject and for each cases, suggests some more suitable tags. (and mirror symmetry is not only about CY, at least they also study the mirror of some fano manifolds) $\endgroup$ Mar 24, 2019 at 21:48
  • $\begingroup$ @ArcticChar OK. And if you're familiar with mirror symmetry, you can help improve tag info, too. $\endgroup$
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Following an earlier discussion I approved a synonym to . Likely down the road a merge will happen.

The main reasons are:

  • we do not separate tags by level, and in this case there even is that is an "advanced" tag so that further separation seems not useful.

  • the community did over the past two years not use that tag much. In absolute numbers usage is not that bad (about 70), but there are thousand times as many question in overall. Thus, one could say, it is basically just not used at all.

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Proposal : create to differentiate from .

The tag currently has 18 questions, 12 of which are about the Grothendieck group rather than the Grothendieck construction (there is no tag-wiki). A search for "Grothendieck construction" (without the quotation marks) returns 70 questions, and there seem to be questions about both concepts that do not have the tag.

Since the two concepts are, as far as I know, unrelated, this seems to be a misuse of the tag. I would therefore suggest to create (or maybe a less ambiguous name, such as would be even better) and retag the questions as necessary.

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    – Xander Henderson Mod
    Sep 16, 2019 at 23:25
  • $\begingroup$ I think there is a dire need for a tag wiki here. I'm somewhat ignorant, but for me Grothendieck group only means the group you get from an abelian category by modding out short exact sequences. Similarly, to me the phrase group completion would trigger an expectation of seeing questions related to profinite groups and such. In other words, I might unwittingly tag/retag questions here without a tag wiki. $\endgroup$ Oct 27, 2019 at 12:14
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Resolved. is created.

Proposal: create "derangements" tag

I have a sense that the search bar doesn't serve very well for finding combinatorics problems about derangements. It's especially hard to search for very basic problems involving them, like the hat-check problem. Another question that seems relatively common is solving and relating the two different canonical recurrence relations for the sequence.

I would contrast this with Catalan numbers, which currently has a tag attached to 297 posts. Honestly, I don't know if that's a large or a small number in terms of justifying a tag, but I would expect that derangement problems would be roughly as common.

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  • $\begingroup$ I used this tag in my most recent question. I also took the time to write the tag excerpt, so if anyone else wants so start using this tag, it's now possible. $\endgroup$
    – ViHdzP
    Dec 27, 2019 at 4:28
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    $\begingroup$ @URL Thanks, I'll get to retagging old questions in my copious spare time! $\endgroup$
    – user694818
    Dec 27, 2019 at 7:07
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Proposal: Create tag "squarefree" and its related tag info

I was surprised to find that we don't have a "squarefree" tag. There are about 350 Questions on Math.SE that mention "squarefree" (and about three times that many if all posts are included). Among other advantages, a tag would provide the wikia summary of basic ideas for this topic in number theory (or perhaps a bit more generally).

I have a dim memory of a discussion of "squarefree" vs. "quadratfrei" as terminology goes, but I can't find it on Meta Math (so maybe it was on a different site or newsgroup altogether).

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Proposal: create "linear-fractional-transformation", and synonymize with and .

They refer to the same thing in most basic cases.

Tag is really hard to notice its exsitence, and it only has 16 questions for almost 6 years.

Here's some discussion about this.

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    $\begingroup$ Isn't a linear fractional transformation more general? My understanding is that an LFT may be defined over any field, whereas a Möbius transformation is specifically an LFT over $\mathbb{C}$. This distinction may not require two distinct tags, but perhaps the tag "linear-fractional-transformation" should be created, with both lft and mobius-transformation being synonymized with that new tag? $\endgroup$
    – Xander Henderson Mod
    Apr 19, 2019 at 13:19
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    $\begingroup$ Problem is I think many people asking about mobius transformations may not know the term linear fractional transformation, so that might be confusing to them. $\endgroup$
    – Alexander Gruber Mod
    Apr 29, 2019 at 0:54
  • $\begingroup$ I would support renaming lft into linear-fractional-transformation, though $\endgroup$
    – Alexander Gruber Mod
    Apr 29, 2019 at 0:55
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Resolved. is created.

Proposal: Create "semisimple-lie-algebras" tag

Semisimple lie algebras is an important class of Lie algebras, and we already have tag .

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    $\begingroup$ I hope that I have not been presumptious, but there seems to be no objection to this tag, so I went ahead and created it $\endgroup$
    – Xander Henderson Mod
    Apr 19, 2019 at 13:15
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Proposal: Tag suggestion:

See Tag suggestion: (cyclic-symmetric-sums).

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Resolved: the tag is removed from that one question.

Please consider removing the tag 4d. It is a new tag and has only one question, which is about cube in 4d.

On one hand, it is definitely not necessary to have the tag $nd$ for all $n\in \mathbb N$. More importantly, four dimensional manifold has a special role in differential geometry, so the tag $4d$, if it remains, might eventually contains a mixture of questions in elementary geometry and (very advanced) differential geometry.

I have tried to remove the tags but some other disagree.

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Proposal: Remove the tag

This tag was created by the question Are there such things as infinite-dimensional regular polytopes?, which is currently the only question with this tag. I don't see this tag having much utility.

Update : The tag has been removed from the question, and should disappear soon.

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  • $\begingroup$ For some reason, I thought that the term "infinite-dimensional space" was just as well established as "$n$-dimensional space". Turns out $\mathbb R^\infty$ is a much more niche topic. Oh well. $\endgroup$
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    Dec 27, 2019 at 4:30
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Partially Resolved: created. We still need a tag wiki and adding the tag to a few old questions.

Proposal: create tag "stochastic-programming"

Reason:

  1. It's an area of research.
  2. There's over a hundred stochastic programming questions.
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Proposal: pluralise .

Reasons:

  1. It's a convention to have pluralised tag names if possible.
  2. A proposition sometimes has multiple proofs.
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