Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1987. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-101). Also available on the World Wide Web.

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In this thesis, the root-locus theory for a class of diffusion systems is studied. The input and output boundary operators are co-located in the sense that their highest order derivatives occur at the same endpoint. It is shown that infinitely many root-locus branches lie on the negative real axis and the remaining finitely many root-locus branches lie inside a fixed closed contour. It is also shown that all closed-loop poles vary continuously as the feedback gain varies from zero to infinity.

In this thesis, the root-locus theory for a class of diffusion systems is studied. The input and output boundary operators are co-located in the sense that their highest order derivatives occur at the same endpoint. It is shown that infinitely many root-locus branches lie on the negative real axis and the remaining finitely many root-locus branches lie inside a fixed closed contour. It is also shown that all closed-loop poles vary continuously as the feedback gain varies from zero to infinity.

MacMahon's Master Theorem is an important result in the theory of algebraic combinatorics. It gives a precise connection between coefficients of certain power series defined by linear relations. We give a complete proof of MacMahon's Master Theorem based on MacMahon's original 1960 proof. We also study a specific infinite dimensional matrix inverse due to C. Krattenthaler.

The representation theory of infinite dimensional groups is in its infancy. This paper is an attempt to apply the orbit method to a particular infinite dimensional group, the spin extension of the restricted unitary group. Our main contribution is in showing that various homogeneous spaces for this group admit measures which can be used to realize the unitary structure for the standard modules.

by Huang Yu. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-150). / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1 --- Global Attractors of Semigroups --- p.9 / Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1 --- Basic Notions --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2 --- Semigroup of Class K --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3 --- Semigroup of Class AK --- p.15 / Chapter 1.4 --- Hausdorff and Fractal Dimensions of Attractors --- p.19 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Hausdorff and Fractal dimensions --- p.20 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- The Dimensions of Invariant Sets --- p.22 / Chapter 1.4.3 --- An Application to Evolution Equations --- p.35 / Notes --- p.39 / Chapter 2 --- Invariant Manifolds and Inertial Manifolds --- p.40 / Introduction --- p.40 / Chapter 2.1 --- Preliminary --- p.41 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Notions --- p.41 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Nemytskii Operator --- p.43 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Contractions on Embedded Banach Spaces --- p.47 / Chapter 2.2 --- Linear and Nonlinear Integral Equations --- p.49 / Chapter 2.3 --- Invariant Manifolds --- p.55 / Chapter 2.4 --- Inertial Manifolds --- p.59 / Notes --- p.63 / Chapter 3 --- Semilinear Parabolic Variational Inequalities --- p.64 / Introduction --- p.64 / Chapter 3.1 --- Existence Results --- p.66 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Existence of Global Attractors --- p.69 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Weakly Approximating Inertial Manifolds --- p.76 / Chapter 3.4 --- An Application: The Obstacle Problem --- p.87 / Chapter 4 --- Semilinear Wave Equations with Damping and Critical Expo- nent --- p.91 / Introduction --- p.91 / Chapter 4.1 --- Existence Results --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Global Attractor for the Problem --- p.96 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- A Proposition on Uniform Decay --- p.98 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Compactness of the Trajectories of (4.2.7) --- p.102 / Chapter 4.3 --- A Particular Case-Linear Damping --- p.105 / Chapter 4.4 --- Estimate of the Dimensions of the Global Attractor --- p.111 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- The Linearized Equation --- p.114 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- The Hausdorff and Fractal Dimensions of the Attractor --- p.117 / Chapter 5 --- Partially Dissipative Evolution Equations --- p.123 / Introduction --- p.123 / Chapter 5.1 --- Basic Notions --- p.124 / Chapter 5.2 --- Semilinear Parabolic Equations and Systems --- p.128 / Chapter 5.3 --- Semilinera Hyperbolic Equation with Damping --- p.136 / Reference --- p.145

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (February 26, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

We analyse different Gibbsian properties of interactive Brownian diffusions X indexed by the lattice $Z^{d} : X = (X_{i}(t), i ∈ Z^{d}, t ∈ [0, T], 0 < T < +∞)$. In a first part, these processes are characterized as Gibbs states on path spaces of the form $C([0, T],R)Z^{d}$. In a second part, we study the Gibbsian character on $R^{Z}^{d}$ of $v^{t}$, the law at time t of the infinite-dimensional diffusion X(t), when the initial law $v = v^{0}$ is Gibbsian.

We study the (strong-)Gibbsian character on RZd of the law at time t of an infinitedimensional gradient Brownian diffusion / when the initial distribution is Gibbsian.