The issue of eddy currents induced by the rapid switching of magnetic field gradients is a long-standing problem in magnetic resonance imaging. A new method for dealing with this problem is presented whereby spatial harmonic components of the magnetic field are continuously sensed, through their temporal rates of change, and corrected. In this way, the effects of the eddy currents on multiple spatial harmonic components of the magnetic field can be detected and corrections applied during the rise time of the gradients. Sensing the temporal changes in each spatial harmonic is made possible with specially designed detection coils. However to make the design of these coils possible, general relationships between the spatial harmonics of the field, scalar potential, and vector potential are found within the quasi-static approximation. These relationships allow the vector potential to be found from the field – an inverse curl operation – and may be of use beyond the specific problem of detection coil design. Using the detection coils as sensors, methods are developed for designing a negative feedback system to control the eddy current effects and optimizing that system with respect to image noise and distortion. The design methods are successfully tested in a series of proof-of-principle experiments which lead to a discussion of how to incorporate similar designs into an operational MRI.

The issue of eddy currents induced by the rapid switching of magnetic field gradients is a long-standing problem in magnetic resonance imaging. A new method for dealing with this problem is presented whereby spatial harmonic components of the magnetic field are continuously sensed, through their temporal rates of change, and corrected. In this way, the effects of the eddy currents on multiple spatial harmonic components of the magnetic field can be detected and corrections applied during the rise time of the gradients. Sensing the temporal changes in each spatial harmonic is made possible with specially designed detection coils. However to make the design of these coils possible, general relationships between the spatial harmonics of the field, scalar potential, and vector potential are found within the quasi-static approximation. These relationships allow the vector potential to be found from the field – an inverse curl operation – and may be of use beyond the specific problem of detection coil design. Using the detection coils as sensors, methods are developed for designing a negative feedback system to control the eddy current effects and optimizing that system with respect to image noise and distortion. The design methods are successfully tested in a series of proof-of-principle experiments which lead to a discussion of how to incorporate similar designs into an operational MRI.

Submitted by Carlos Roberto Lopes Vicente null (crlvicente@hotmail.com) on 2018-03-06T19:32:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Carlos.pdf: 1349576 bytes, checksum: 4bf9e37bb7bc9015d50dd54931d60cdd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elza Mitiko Sato null (elzasato@ibilce.unesp.br) on 2018-03-07T18:09:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 vicente_crl_me_sjrp.pdf: 1349576 bytes, checksum: 4bf9e37bb7bc9015d50dd54931d60cdd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-07T18:09:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 vicente_crl_me_sjrp.pdf: 1349576 bytes, checksum: 4bf9e37bb7bc9015d50dd54931d60cdd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-23 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Na busca por novos sistemas de comunicações muitos trabalhos têm sido realizados com o objetivo de obter constelações de sinais e códigos geometricamente uniformes no espaço euclidiano. Neste contexto, nossa proposta é identificar uma estrutura algébrica e geométrica para reticulados algébricos provenientes do homomorfismo canônico que possuam densidade centro ótima. Nesse sentido, a presente dissertação tem como foco as extensões galoisianas de grau primo ímpar p e encontrar estruturas de Z-módulos via essas extensões que gerem reticulados algébricos com densidade de centro ótima. / In the search for new communication systems many works have been performed in order to get constellation geometrically uniform signs and codes in Euclidean space. In this context, our proposal is to identify an algebraic and geometric structure for algebraic lattices from the canonical homomorphism possessing great center density. In this sense, this project focuses on the galoisian extensions of p odd prime degree and find Z-module structures via these extensions that create algebraic lattices with great center density. / 2015/20595-4

Le résultat principal dans le travail présenté est le calcul explicite de la série génératrice des opérateurs de Hecke dans l'algèbre de Hecke locale pour les groupes symplectiques de genre 3 et 4. L'algorithme est basé sur l'isomorphisme de Satake, qui permet de réaliser toutes les opérations dans l'algèbre des polynômes à plusieurs variables. C'est la première fois que cette expression est calculée pour le genre 4. Pour obtenir le résultat principal, une méthode de calcul symbolique a été développée. Cette approche algorithmique s'applique à d'autres types de séries de Hecke. En particulier, nous formulons et prouvons un analogue du Lemme de Rankin pour le genre 2. Nous avons aussi calculé les séries génératrices des carrés symétriques et des cubes symétriques.<br /><br />Se basant sur nos résultats nous formulons une conjecture de modularité pour les convolutions des fonctions L spineurs associées aux formes modulaires de Siegel. Nous considérons d'autres conjectures importantes liées aux formes modulaires de Siegel et à leurs fonctions L. Nous utilisons ces constructions pour calculer les facteurs algébriques rationnels aux valeurs critiques de la fonction L spineur attachée à F12 de Miyawaki. A notre connaissance c'est le premier exemple d'une fonction L-spineur de forme parabolique de Siegel de degré 3, dont certaines valeurs spéciales peuvent être calculées explicitement.<br /><br />Finalement, nous appliquons la théorie des algèbres de Hecke pour construire des cryptosystèmes algébriques sur ensembles finis de classes à gauches dans l'algèbre de Hecke. Nous utilisons une relation entre les classes à gauches et les points sur certains variétés algébriques projectives.

Orientador: Paulo Ricardo da Silva / Banca: João Carlos da Rocha Medrado / Banca: Fernando de Osório Mello / Banca: Claudio Aguinaldo Buzzi / Banca: Vanderlei Minori Horita / Resumo: Neste trabalho estudamos sistemas diferenciais forçados, também conhecidos como sistemas de equações com impasse. Estudamos os casos onde tais sistemas são suaves e os casos onde são possivelmente descontínuos. Usando técnicas de perturbação singular obtemos alguns resultados sobre a dinâmica destes sistemas em vizinhanças dos conjuntos de impasse. No caso suave, a Teoria de Fenichel clássica e crucial para o desenvolvimento dos principais resultados. Para o caso com descontinuidades, uma teoria similar a Teoria de Fenichel 'e desenvolvida. Além disso, estudamos a bifurcação de ciclos limites das órbitas periódicas de um centro diferencial linear quando perturbamos tal centro dentro de uma classe de sistemas diferenciais lineares por partes com impasse / Abstract: In this work we study constrained differential systems, also known as systems of equations with impasse. We study the cases where such systems are smo oth and the cases where they are p ossibly discontinuous. Using singular p erturbation techniques we obtain some results on the dynamic of these systems in neighb orho o ds of the impasse sets. In smo oth case, the classical Fenichel's Theory is crucial for the development of the main results. For the case with discontinuity, a similar theory to Fenichel's Theory is develop ed. Moreover, we study the bifurcation of limit cycles from the p erio dic orbits of a linear differential center when we p erturb such center inside a class of piecewise linear differential systems with impasse / Doutor

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-11-06T18:45:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 maurorodriguesrochajunior.pdf: 550118 bytes, checksum: 5b26ad1ab2bd9d4a190d742762346968 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-11-09T14:32:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 maurorodriguesrochajunior.pdf: 550118 bytes, checksum: 5b26ad1ab2bd9d4a190d742762346968 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-09T14:32:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 maurorodriguesrochajunior.pdf: 550118 bytes, checksum: 5b26ad1ab2bd9d4a190d742762346968 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-11 / O principal objetivo desse trabalho é estudar duas aplicações distintas das bases de Gröbner a códigos lineares. Com esse objetivo, estudamos como relacionar códigos a outras estruturas matemáticas, fazendo com que tenhamos novas ferramentas para a realização da codificação. Em especial, estudamos códigos cartesianos afins e os códigos algébrico-geométricos de Goppa. / The main objective of this work is to study two different applications of Gröbner basis to linear codes. With this purpose, we study how to relate codes to other mathematical structures, allowing us to use new tools to do the coding. In particular, we study affine cartesian codes e algebraic-geometric Goppa codes.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-09T17:08:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JOGLI GIDEL DA SILVA ARAÚJO - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2014..pdf: 597763 bytes, checksum: 4efda81f9c43bb545607e3229077124a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T17:08:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOGLI GIDEL DA SILVA ARAÚJO - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2014..pdf: 597763 bytes, checksum: 4efda81f9c43bb545607e3229077124a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03 / Capes / Neste trabalho, estudamos a geometria de gráficos Killing conformes inteiros, isto é, gráficos construídos a partir do fluxo gerado por um campo de vetores V Killing conforme completo, os quais estão definidos sobre uma folha integral da folheação V⊥ ortogonal a V. Além disso, estudamos a restrição da norma do gradiente da função z a qual determina tal gráficoΣ(z), nesse sentido, apresentamos condições suficientes para assegurar que Σ(z) é uma hipersuperfície totalmente umbílica e, em particular, uma folha integral de V⊥. / We study the geometry of entire conformal Killing graphs, that is, graphs constructed through the flow generated by a complete conformal Killing vector field V and which are defined over an integral leaf of the foliation V⊥ orthogonal to V. In this setting, under a suitable restriction on the norm of the gradient of the function z which determines such a graphΣ(z), we establish sufficient conditions to ensure that Σ(z) is totally umbilical and, in particular, an integral leaf of V⊥.

Submitted by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2016-12-09T17:10:49Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Edvaldo Elias de Almeida Batista - 2016.pdf: 1198471 bytes, checksum: 88d7db305f0cfe6be9b62496a226217f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2016-12-09T17:11:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Edvaldo Elias de Almeida Batista - 2016.pdf: 1198471 bytes, checksum: 88d7db305f0cfe6be9b62496a226217f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-09T17:11:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Edvaldo Elias de Almeida Batista - 2016.pdf: 1198471 bytes, checksum: 88d7db305f0cfe6be9b62496a226217f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this thesis, we study variational inequalities and generalized vector equilibrium problems. In Chapter 1, several results and basic definitions of Riemannian geometry are listed; we present the concept of the monotone vector field in Hadamard manifolds and many of their properties, besides, we introduce the concept of enlargement of a monotone vector field, and we display its properties in a Riemannian context. In Chapter 2, an inexact proximal point method for variational inequalities in Hadamard manifolds is introduced, and its convergence properties are studied; see [7]. To present our method, we generalize the concept of enlargement of monotone operators, from a linear setting to the Riemannian context. As an application, an inexact proximal point method for constrained optimization problems is obtained. In Chapter 3, we present an extragradient algorithm for variational inequality associated with the point-to-set vector field in Hadamard manifolds and study its convergence properties; see [8]. In order to present our method, the concept of enlargement of maximal monotone vector fields is used and its lower-semicontinuity is established to obtain the convergence of the method in this new context. In Chapter 4, we present a sufficient condition for the existence of a solution to the generalized vector equilibrium problem on Hadamard manifolds using a version of the KnasterKuratowski-Mazurkiewicz Lemma; see [6]. In particular, the existence of solutions to optimization, vector optimization, Nash equilibria, complementarity, and variational inequality is a special case of the existence result for the generalized vector equilibrium problem. / Nesta tese, estudamos desigualdades variacionais e o problema de equilíbrio vetorial generalizado. No Capítulo 1, vários resultados e definições elementares sobre geometria Riemanniana são enunciados; apresentamos o conceito de campo vetorial monótono e muitas de suas propriedades, além de introduzir o conceito de alargamento de um campo vetorial monótono e exibir suas propriedades em um contexto Riemanniano. No Capítulo 2, um método de ponto proximal inexato para desigualdades variacionais em variedades de Hadamard é introduzido e suas propriedades de convergência são estudadas; veja [7]. Para apresentar o nosso método, generalizamos o conceito de alargamento de operadores monótonos, do contexto linear ao contexto de Riemanniano. Como aplicação, é obtido um método de ponto proximal inexato para problemas de otimização com restrições. No Capítulo 3, apresentamos um algoritmo extragradiente para desigualdades variacionais associado a um campo vetorial ponto-conjunto em variedades de Hadamard e estudamos suas propriedades de convergência; veja [8]. A fim de apresentar nosso método, o conceito de alargamento de campos vetoriais monótonos é utilizado e sua semicontinuidade inferior é estabelecida, a fim de obter a convergência do método neste novo contexto. No Capítulo 4, apresentamos uma condição suficiente para a existência de soluções para o problema de equilíbrio vetorial generalizado em variedades de Hadamard usando uma versão do Lema Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz; veja [6]. Em particular, a existência de soluções para problemas de otimização, otimização vetorial, equilíbrio de Nash, complementaridade e desigualdades variacionais são casos especiais do resultado de existência do problema de equilíbrio vetorial generalizado.