Sunday, May 31, 2020

proposal for analysis of math used in a subdomain of Physics based on the arXiv corpus

What type of math is used in the High-Energy Physics (HEP) corpus available from arXiv?
Example categories include

  • geometry
  • trigonometry
  • integration
  • differential equations
  • sets
  • linear algebra
Motives for asking this question:
  • if I read a randomly selected paper in HEP, what math should I have fluency in?
  • are there papers in HEP that use math which is unusual compared to the majority? For example, is there only one paper that uses geometry?
  • what is the diversity of math per author? (For multi-author papers, tag each author with all the math categories.)
  • what is the diversity of math per paper? (How many types of math appear in a given paper?)

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