Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1976. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

The results from this dissertation are a computation of ultrapowers by supercompactness measures and concepts related to such measures. The second chapter gives an overview of the basic ideas required to carry out the computations. Included are preliminary ideas connected to measures, and the supercompactness measures. Order type results are also considered in this chapter. In chapter III we give an alternate characterization of 2 using the notion of iterated ordinal measures. Basic facts related to this characterization are also considered here. The remaining chapters are devoted to finding bounds fwith arguments taking place both inside and outside the ultrapowers. Conditions related to the upper bound are given in chapter VI.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Estudamos folheaÃÃes de formas espaciais por hipersuperfÃcies completas, sob certas condiÃÃes sobre as suas curvaturas mÃdias de ordem superior. Em particular, no espaÃo euclidiano obtemos um Teorema tipo-Bernstein para grÃficos cujas curvaturas mÃdia e escalar nÃo mudam de sinal (podendo ser nÃo constantes). NÃs tambÃm estabelecemos a nÃo existÃncia de folheaÃÃes da esfera padrÃo cujas folhas sÃo completas e tÃm curvatura escalar constante, alargando assim um teorema de Barbosa, Kenmotsu e Oshikiri. Para o caso mais geral de folheaÃÃes r-mÃnimas do espaÃo euclidiano, possivelmente com um conjunto singular, somos capazes de invocar um teorema de D. Ferus para dar condiÃÃes sob as quais as folhas nÃo-singulares sÃo folheadas por hiperplanos. / We study foliations of space forms by complete hypersurfaces, under some mild conditions on its higher order mean curvatures. In particular, in Euclidean space we obtain a Bernstein-type theorem for graphs whose mean and scalar curvature do not change sign but may otherwise be nonconstant. We also establish the nonexistence of foliations of the standard sphere whose leaves are complete and have constant scalar curvature, thus extending a theorem of Barbosa, Kenmotsu and Oshikiri. For the more general case of r-minimal foliations of the Euclidean space, possibly with a singular set, we are able to invoke a theorem of Ferus to give conditions under which the nonsigular leaves are foliated by hyperplanes.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Neste trabalho, definimos as transformaÃÃes de Newton e provamos algumas propriedades relacionadas a elas. Fizemos um estudo sobre operador elÃptico e usamos isso para provar que dadas algumas condiÃÃes para a curvatura seccional de uma variedade riemanniana M, conseguimos majorar a funÃÃo altura (em modulo) de um grÃfico vertical compacto imerso em MxR. / In this paper, we define the transformations of Newton and prove some properties related to them. We did a study on elliptic operator and use it to prove that given some conditions for the sectional curvature of a riemannian manifold M,able function of increasing height (in modulus) of a graph vertical compact immersed in MXR.

The vector bundles with the basic structure space with affine connection. It is shown that in the present bundles the linear inducts the affine connection, and the curvature of the objects of the present connection is traced. Having defined the concept of the first differential extension of the vector bundles, an indication is made that the linear connection of vector bundles inducts the elongated linear connection of space and linear co-connection, expression form of the linear co-connection components and their interrelation. There are derived commutative formulas of the inducted connection and forms of its components of curvature objects.