Wong, Chun Yin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-135). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

For a particular equilibrium point, the local performance is determined by the partial derivatives of the control law evaluated at the equilibrium point. For a linear controller, the derivatives are equal to the state-feedback gains and the gains on the external inputs. These gains can be changed to vary the local performance of the system. An extended-linear controller links together the desired local controllers of various equilibrium points producing a nonlinear controller with the desired characteristics in a neighborhood of the equilibrium curve. Global performance is the behavior of the system away from the equilibrium curve. Although the extended-linear controller has good local performance, the global performance might be poor or even unstable. This thesis uses cubic spline techniques to investigate the coupling of global information into local controllers without affecting the local performance. Although “stand-alone” interpolative spline structures do not give the desired local performance, global information can be splined into linear and extended-linear controllers to provide both good global and good local performance. / Master of Science

Let (Mn, g) be a Riemannian manifold. Say K ! E ! M is a principal K-bundle with connection A. We define a natural evolution equation for the pair (g,A) combining the Ricci flow for g and the Yang-Mills flow for A which we dub Ricci Yang-Mills flow. We show that these equations are, up to di eomorphism equivalence, the gradient flow equations for a Riemannian functional on M. Associated to this energy functional is an entropy functional which is monotonically increasing in areas close to a developing singularity. This entropy functional is used to prove a non-collapsing theorem for certain solutions to Ricci Yang-Mills flow. We show that these equations, after an appropriate change of gauge, are equivalent to a strictly parabolic system, and hence prove general unique short-time existence of solutions. Furthermore we prove derivative estimates of Bernstein-Shi type. These can be used to find a complete obstruction to long-time existence, as well as to prove a compactness theorem for Ricci Yang Mills flow solutions. Our main result is a fairly general long-time existence and convergence theorem for volume-normalized solutions to Ricci Yang-Mills flow. The limiting pair (g,A) satisfies equations coupling the Einstein and Yang-Mills conditions on g and A respectively. Roughly these conditions are that the associated curvature FA must be large, and satisfy a certain “stability” condition determined by a quadratic action of FA on symmetric two-tensors.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duke University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Mathematics, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 24, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78). Also issued in print.

Orientador: Olivâine Santana de Queiroz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T03:06:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hitomi_EduardoEizoAramaki_M.pdf: 5800906 bytes, checksum: 04b93921a20d8ab0f71d4977b9e93e73 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação realizamos um estudo sobre o fluxo de curvatura média em espaços Euclidianos sob as perspectivas analítica e geométrica. Tratamos inicialmente da existência e regularidade de soluções em tempos pequenos de equações parabólicas quase lineares de segunda ordem em variedades Riemannianas, o que é essencial para garantirmos a existência de uma solução suave em tempo pequeno do fluxo de curvatura média. Em uma segunda parte, passamos a alguns resultados sobre o comportamento no intervalo maximal de existência de uma solução suave da hipersuperfície em evolução, por meio de equações das componentes geométricas associadas e de Princípios de Máximo. Próximo desse tempo maximal, analisamos a formação de singularidades do Tipo I por meio da Fórmula de Monotonicidade de Huisken e de rescalings, e do Tipo II por meio de uma técnica de blow-up devida a Hamilton. Em especial, reservamos o caso de curvas a um capítulo a parte e apresentamos resultados clássicos da teoria de curve-shortening flows / Abstract: In this dissertation we study the mean curvature flow in Euclidean spaces from the analytic and geometric point of view. We deal initially with short-time existence and regularity of a solution for second order quasilinear parabolic equations on Riemannian manifolds, which is essential to guarantee the short-time existence of a smooth solution to the mean curvature flow. In a second part, we present some results concerning the behavior of the evolving hypersurface close to the maximal time of existence of a smooth solution, by means of Maximum Principles and evolution equations of the associated geometric components. Close to this maximal time, we analyse the formation of singularities of Type I by means of rescalings and Huisken's Monotonicity Formula, and of Type II by means of a blow-up technique due to Hamilton. In particular, we reserve the case of curves to a separate chapter, where we present some classical results in curve-shortening flow theory / Mestrado / Matematica / Mestre em Matemática

A discrete formalism for General Relativity was introduced in 1961 by Tulio Regge in the form of a piecewise-linear manifold as an approximation to (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds. This formalism, known as Regge Calculus, has primarily been used to study vacuum spacetimes as both an approximation for classical General Relativity and as a framework for quantum gravity. However, there has been no consistent effort to include arbitrary non-gravitational sources into Regge Calculus or examine the structural details of how this is done. This manuscript explores the underlying framework of Regge Calculus in an effort elucidate the structural properties of the lattice geometry most useful for incorporating particles and fields. Correspondingly, we first derive the contracted Bianchi identity as a guide towards understanding how particles and fields can be coupled to the lattice so as to automatically ensure conservation of source. In doing so, we derive a Kirchhoff-like conservation principle that identifies the flow of energy and momentum as a flux through the circumcentric dual boundaries. This circuit construction arises naturally from the topological structure suggested by the contracted Bianchi identity. Using the results of the contracted Bianchi identity we explore the generic properties of the local topology in Regge Calculus for arbitrary triangulations and suggest a first-principles definition that is consistent with the inclusion of source. This prescription for extending vacuum Regge Calculus is sufficiently general to be applicable to other approaches to discrete quantum gravity. We discuss how these findings bear on a quantized theory of gravity in which the coupling to source provides a physical interpretation for the approximate invariance principles of the discrete theory. / by Jonathan Ryan McDonald. / Vita. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Orientador: Diego Sebastian Ledesma / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T22:36:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paula_PedroManfrimMagalhaesde_M.pdf: 1130226 bytes, checksum: bbd8d375ddf7846ed2eafe024103e682 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre variedades Riemannianas que possuem um tensor de Bakry-Émery-Ricci com limitações. Inicialmente abordamos tanto aspectos da geometria Riemanniana tradicional como métricas e geodésicas, quanto aspectos mais avançados como as fórmulas de Bochner, Weitzenböck e o teorema de Hodge. Em seguida discutimos a convergência de Gromov-Hausdorff e suas propriedades, além de serem apresentados alguns teoremas como os de Kasue e Fukaya. Por fim estudamos as propriedades topológicas e geométricas de variedades com limitação no tensor de Bakry-Émery-Ricci e o comportamento de tais limitações com respeito à submersões e à convergência de Gromov-Hausdorff / Abstract: This work presents a study about Riemannian manifolds having a Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor with bounds. Initially we approached both the traditional aspects of Riemannian geometry like metrics and geodesics, as more advanced aspects like the Bochner, Weitzenböck formulas and the Hodge's theorem. Then we discussed the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence and its properties, in addition to showing some theorems as those from Kasue and Fukaya. Lastly we studied the topological and geometric properties of manifolds with bounds on the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor and the behavior of these bounds with respect to submersions and the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence / Mestrado / Matematica / Mestre em Matemática

This dissertation considers several problems related to Ricci flow, including the existence and behavior of solutions. The first goal is to obtain explicit, coordinate-based descriptions of Ricci flow solutions--especially those corresponding to Ricci solitons--on two classes of nilpotent Lie groups. On the odd-dimensional classical Heisenberg groups, we determine the asymptotics of Ricci flow starting at any metric, and use Lott's blowdown method to demonstrate convergence to soliton metrics. On the groups of real unitriangular matrices, which are more complicated, we describe the solitons and corresponding solutions using a suitable ansatz. Next, we consider solsolitons involving the nilsolitons in the Heisenberg case above. This uses work of Lauret, which characterizes solsolitons as certain extensions of nilsolitons, and work of Will, which demonstrates that the space of solsolitons extensions of a given nilsoliton is parametrized by the quotient of a Grassmannian by a finite group. We determine these spaces of solsoliton extensions of Heisenberg nilsolitons, and we also explicitly describe many-parameter families of these solsolitons in dimensions greater than three. Finally, we explore Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow, both as it arises naturally in certain bundle constructions related to Ricci flow and as a geometric flow in its own right. In the first case, we generalize a theorem of Knopf that demonstrates convergence and stability of certain locally R[superscript N]-invariant Ricci flow solutions. In the second case, we prove a version of Hamilton's compactness theorem for the coupled flow, and then generalize it to the category of etale Riemannian groupoids. We also provide a detailed example of solutions to the flow on the three-dimensional Heisenberg group. / text

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