Unfamiliar notation

[noamross]

The new notation in Eq. 2 (integral subscripts) has me squinting a bit. Can you explain it to me?

[noamross]

OK, looking at the code, I see that the slash is \setminus and I guess this means that the first inegral is only over states which are zero, and the second is over states which are not zero. Given the zero in the second integral, why do we include it? It seems to reduce clarity. My instinct is to remove the second integral and change the first subscript something like to "s = [0, 0, ..., 0]"

[sebastian-schreiber]

Hi Noam,

I will add some description below this as it is notationally the correct
way of presenting the integral i.e. integrating over the whole domain \S is
equal to integrating over the extinction state {0} and the non-extinction
states \S\setminus {0}

Cheers, Sebastian

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Noam Ross notifications@github.com wrote:

OK, looking at the code, I see that the slash is \setminus and I guess
this means that the first inegral is only over states which are zero, and
the second is over states which are not zero. Given the zero in the second
integral, why do we include it? It seems to reduce clarity. My instinct is
to remove the second integral and change the first subscript something like
to "s = [0, 0, ..., 0]"

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