Orientador: Rafael de Freitas Leão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T03:14:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mendes_Douglas_M.pdf: 1234399 bytes, checksum: 9934061cdc7cbbc1da3d2586302aac2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Os grupos Spin aparecem de várias formas em Matemática e em Física-Matemática, tendo grande importância na teoria de brados e de operadores diferenciais sobre os mesmos. O conceito de estrutura spin é deles derivado, sendo ele a base de toda uma teoria, conhecida como geometria spin. Esta dissertação introduz os primeiros conceitos necessários ao estudo de tais grupos, assim como alguns aspectos importantes relacionados a eles. Dada a natureza dos grupos Spin e dos problemas aos quais estão relacionados, vários tópicos na interface entre álgebra e geometria tiveram de ser abordados. Estudamos em um primeiro momento as álgebras de Clifford, sua representação adjunta torcida e os grupos Spin como subgrupos do grupo das unidades de tais álgebras. À estes estudos, seguiu-se uma análise detalhada da teoria de espaços de recobrimento e da classificação dos mesmos. Pudemos com isso entender o grupo Spin, via representação adjunta torcida, como o recobrimento universal do grupo especial ortogonal de um espaço quadrático não-degenerado. Nos concentramos daí na teoria de brados principais e a relação destes com as propriedades geométricas das variedades sobre as quais eles estão construídos. Para sintetizar o que foi estudado, construímos algebricamente a fibração de Hopf ao final desta dissertação, explicitando sua relação com a estrutura spin da esfera S² / Abstract: Spin groups come in many forms in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, having great importance in the theory of fiber bundles and differential operators defined on them. The concept of spin structure is derived from them, being the basis of all a theory, known as spin geometry. This thesis introduces the first concepts necessary for the study of such groups, as well as important aspects related to them. Given the nature of the Spin groups and problems which they're related to, several topics at the interface between algebra and geometry had to be addressed. At first, we studied Clifford algebras, their twisted adjoint representation and Spin groups as subgroups of the group of units of such algebras. Followed these studies a detailed analysis of the theory of covering spaces and the classification of them. Done that, we were able to understand the group Spin, via the twisted adjoint representation, as the universal covering space of the special orthogonal group of a non-degenerate quadratic space. From there, we focused on the theory of principal bundles and their relationship with the geometric properties of manifolds on which they are built. To summarize what was studied, we algebraically construct the Hopf fibration at the end of this thesis, explaining its relationship with the spin structure of the sphere S² / Mestrado / Matematica / Mestre em Matemática

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Theatre is widely unrecognized for the compelling influence it has held in society throughout history. In this thesis, I specifically examine the implications surrounding the social protest theatre of black and Jewish American minority communities in the first half of the twentieth century. I discuss how their historical circumstance, culture, and idiosyncratic natures caused them to choose agitated propaganda theatre as an avenue for protest. I delve into the similarities in circumstance, but their theatre case studies separate the two communities in the end. I present case studies of each community, beginning with anti-lynching plays of the 1920s that were written by black American playwrights both in response to white supremacist propaganda theatre and to assert a dignified representation of the black community. However, their plays and protest movement never developed a larger popular following. My next minority theatre case study is an examination of 1930s Jewish labor drama created in protest of popular anti-Semitic theatre and poor labor conditions. The Jewish community differs from the black community in their case because the racist propaganda was produced by a man who was Jewish. Another difference is that their protest theatre was on the commercial stage by this point because of a rise in a Jewish middle class and improvement of circumstance. Both the Jewish protest theatre and labor reform movements were more successful. My conclusion is a summation of black and Jewish American theatre of the era with a case study of collaboration between the communities in George Gershwin’s operetta about black Americans, Porgy and Bess. I conclude that these two communities eventually departed from circumstance and therefore had differing theatrical, political, and social experiences in America during the 1930s.

Orientador: Jayme Vaz Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-24T19:00:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RochaJunior_Roldaoda_M.pdf: 4478856 bytes, checksum: 633cef106ddf91dc74b9d11ae74d1372 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação o formalismo dos spinors e twistors de Penrose são formulados em termos das álgebras de Clifi'ord. Para tal utilizamos o modelo paravetorial do espaço-tempo, onde um vetor do espaço-tempo é escrito em termos da soma de escalares e vetores da álgebra de Cli:fford do espaço euclideano tridimensional. Com isso construímos um formalismo que utiliza a menor estrutura algébrica capaz de descrever teorias físicas relativísticas, como as teorias eletromagnética e de Dirac. Os spinors são definidos algebricamente como elementos de um ideal lateral mínimal da álgebra de Clifi'ord. Utilizamos o teorema de periodicidade (1,1) das álgebras de Clifi'ord para descrever de maneira linear, em termos da complexificação da álgebra de Clifi'ord do espaço-tempo, as transformações conformes desse espaço-tempo. Os twistors aparecem como uma classe particular de spinors algébricos. Consideramos ainda algumas possíveis generalizações / Abstract: In this dissertation the Penrose theory of spinors and twistors is formulated from the point of view of the Clifi'ord algebras. We use the paravector model of spacetime, where a spacetime vector is written as a sum of scalars and vectors of the Clifi'ord algebra associated with the three-dimensional euclidean space. From this we construct a formalism that uses the least algebraic structure that describes relativistic physical theories, such as the electromagnetic and the Dirac ones. Spinors are defined algebraically as elements of a minimallateral ideal of a Cli:fford algebra. We use the modulo (1,1) periodicity theorem of Clifi'ord algebras to describe the conformal transformations as linear transformations, using the method of complexmcation of the spacetime Clifi'ord algebra. Twistors are defined as a particular class of algebraic spinors. We consider some possible generalizations / Mestrado / Mestre em Matemática Aplicada

Orientador: Roldão da Rocha Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática, 2013

Orientador: Roldão da Rocha Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática, 2013

Orientador: Roldão da Rocha Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática, 2013

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1967. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-74). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1978. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 370-386).