Let t:[a,b] → ft be a C2 family of \"good\" C4 e piecewise expanding unimodal maps, with a critical point c, that is transversal to the topological classes of such maps. Given a lipchitzian observable ∅, consider the function ℛ∅(t)=∫∅dµt, where µt is the unique bsolutely continuous invariant probability of ft. We show a central limit theorem for the modulus of continuity of ℝ∅, that is limh→0m{t ∈ [a,b] : t + h ∈ [a,b] e 1/(Ψ(t)(-log|h|)½)((ℛ∅(t + h) - ℛ∅(t))/h) ≤ y} converges to 1/(2π)½ ∫y-∞e-s2/2ds. Now, let us consider a C2+ε expanding map f : 𝕊1 → 𝕊1 and a C1+ε periodic function v : 𝕊1 → ℝ. We show that the unique bounded solution of the twisted cohomological equation v(x) = α(f(x)) - Df(x)α(x) is either of class C1+ε or nowhere differentiable. We also prove that if α is nowhere differentiable, them the modulus of continuity of α satisfies a central limit theorem, that is, there is α &gt 0 such that limh→0µ{x : (α(x + h) - α(x))/(σ𝓁h(-log|h|)½) ≤ y} = 1/(2π)½ ∫y-∞e-t2/2dt, where µ is the absolutely continuous invariant probability of f. / Seja t:[a,b] → ft uma família C2 \"boa\" de transformações unimodais expansoras por pedaços com um ponto crítico c, que é transversal às classes topológicas de tais transformações. Dado um observável lipschitziano ∅, considere a função ℛ∅(t)=∫∅dµt, onde µt é a única probabiidade invariante absolutamente contínua de ft. Mostramos um teorema do limite central para o módulo de continuidade de ℝ∅, isto é limh→0m{t ∈ [a,b] : t + h ∈ [a,b] e 1/(Ψ(t)(-log|h|)½)((ℛ∅(t + h) - ℛ∅(t))/h) ≤ y} converge para 1/(2π)½ ∫y-∞e-s2/2ds. Vamos considerar agora f : 𝕊1 → 𝕊1 uma transformação expansora de classe C2+ε e v : 𝕊1 → ℝ uma função periódica de classe C1+ε. Mostramos que a única solução limitada da equação cohomológica torcida v(x) = α(f(x)) - Df(x)α(x) ou é de classe C1+ε ou não possui derivada em ponto algum. Mostramos também que se α não possui derivada em ponto algum, então o módulo de continuidade de α satisfaz um teorema do limite central, isto é, existe α &gt 0 tal que limh→0µ{x : (α(x + h) - α(x))/(σ𝓁h(-log|h|)½) ≤ y} = 1/(2π)½ ∫y-∞e-t2/2dt, onde µ é a probabilidade invariante absolutamente contínua associada a f.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第23002号 / 理博第4679号 / 新制||理||1671(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻 / (主査)教授 大西 明, 准教授 菅沼 秀夫, 教授 田中 貴浩 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

This thesis is divided into two topics: the development of a procedure for wind serviceability design of steel buildings and the development of a simple linear response history analysis for building codes. In the United States the building codes are generally silent on the issue of serviceability. This has led to a wide variation in design practices related to service level wind loads. Chapter 2 of this thesis contains a literature review which discusses pertinent aspects of wind drift serviceability, including selecting the mean recurrence interval (MRI), mathematical modeling of the structure, and establishment of rational deformation limits. Chapter 3 contains a journal article submitted to Engineering Journal which describes the recommended procedure for damage based wind serviceability design of steel structures. The procedure uses a broad range of MRIs, bases damage measurement on shear strains, includes all sources of deformation in the model, and bases deformation limits on fragility curves. Chapter 4 of this thesis contains a literature review which examines issues related to performing linear response history analysis. Chapter 5 contains a conference paper submitted to the Tenth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering which serves as a position paper promoting the inclusion of a linear response history analysis procedure in future editions of the NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and ASCE 7. The procedure address the following issues: selection and scaling of ground motions, the use of spectral matched ground motions, design for dependent actions, and the scaling of responses with the response modification coefficient (R) and the deflection amplification factor (Cd). / Master of Science

This thesis reviews the parameters required to perform linear response history analysis according to Chapter 16 of the American Standard ASCE 7-10. A careful analysis is presented about the selection of ground motions using real records and using artificial records generated such that their response spectrum matches with a defined target spectrum; three different techniques are studied for the generation of these artificial records. Also, this document revises the scaling of ground motion techniques in the American Standard ASCE-7 as well as in other seismic codes. It presents a detailed analysis of the variables influencing the scaling of ground motions, and it suggests a new scaling technique for linear response history analysis. The assumptions made establishing the flexibility of the diaphragms are also analyzed as well as dynamic methods to include accidental torsion when doing a linear response history analysis. Other modeling issues such as the orientation of the ground motion axis, scaling of element forces and displacements, orthogonal loading, solution techniques, P-Delta effects, modeling of the basement, and calculation of drifts are also studied in the context of linear response history analysis. The thesis concludes with suggested code language for linear response history analysis intended to be considered in future editions of the American Standard ASCE 7. / Master of Science

<p> Block copolymers are a class of soft materials which can self-assemble into a variety of ordered structures. One method to induce new structures is the application of an external field such as an electric field. Previously, studies of the field-induced phase transitions are based on the assumption that the structural change follows certain symmetry pattern or simply using real-space numerical methods. The goal of the current project is to develop a simple analytic method to predict the structural change. Our approach is based on a linear response theory, in which the external field is taken as a perturbation and the lowest-order contribution to the solution is computed. We applied our method to the Landau-Brazovskii theory which is valid close to the order-disorder transition point of diblock copolymers. The result shows that there will be an additional term to the order parameter as a response to the external field. The structural change can be predicted by a new Fourier expansion of the order parameter. As an example, we examined the structural change of a body-centered cubic phase under an applied electric field.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

This study estimated soybean yield responses to K fertilizer using trials data from 18 sites in Mississippi from 2011-2016. Eight response functions were fitted, including linear, linear plateau, quadratic, quadratic-plateau, square root quadratic, spherical plateau, exponential, and exponential-plateau functions. The ratio of high responsive, low responsive, and no responsive sites to K rates is 3:3:12 respectively. The response functions led to different predicted optimal K rates, and the best response function for each site was determined by the Vuong closeness test and economic loss analysis. The predicted economically optimal K rates are 157, 73, and 0 lb/acre for high, low, and no response sites respectively, and the average optimal K rate is 55 lb/acre. Compared to the currently used regional uniform K fertilizer rate of 80 lb/acre, the response-based K rates are expected to generate soybean production gain of about $14 per acre for Mississippi soybean producers.

In dieser Arbeit werden Algorithmen für die Berechnung elektronischer Korrelations- und Anregungsenergien mittels der Coupled-Cluster Methode auf adaptiven Gittern entwickelt und implementiert. Die jeweiligen Funktionen und Operatoren werden adaptiv durch Multiskalenanalyse dargestellt, was eine Basissatz unabängige Beschreibung mit kontrollierter numerischer Genauigkeit ermöglicht. Gleichungen für die Coupled-Cluster Methode werden in einem verallgemeinerten Rahmen, unabhängig von virtuellen Orbitalen und globalen Basissätzen, neu formuliert. Hierzu werden die amplitudengewichteten Anregungen in virtuelle Orbitale ersetzt durch Anregungen in n-Elektronenfunktionen, welche durch Gleichungen im n-Elektronen Ortsraum bestimmt sind. Die erhaltenen Gleichungen können, analog zur Basissatz abh¨angigen Form, mit leicht angepasster Interpretation diagrammatisch dargestellt werden. Aufgrund des singulären Coulomb Potentials werden die Arbeitsgleichungen mit einem explizit korrelierten Ansatz regularisiert. Coupled-Cluster singles mit genäherten doubles (CC2) und ähnliche Modelle werden, für geschlossenschalige Systeme und in regularisierter Form, in die MADNESS Bibliothek (eine allgemeine Bibliothek zur Darstellung von Funktionen und Operatoren mittels Multiskalenanalyse) implementiert. Mit der vorgestellten Methode können elektronische CC2 Paarkorrelationsenergien und Anregungsenergien mit bestimmter numerischer Genauigkeit unabhängig von globalen Basissätzen berechnet werden, was anhand von kleinen Molekülen verifiziert wird / In this work algorithms for the computation of electronic correlation and excitation energies with the Coupled-Cluster method on adaptive grids are developed and implemented. The corresponding functions and operators are adaptively represented with multiresolution analysis allowing a basis-set independent description with controlled numerical accuracy. Equations for the coupled-cluster model are reformulated in a generalized framework independent of virtual orbitals and global basis-sets. For this, the amplitude weighted excitations into virtuals are replaced by excitations into n-electron functions which are determined by projected equations in the n-electron position space. The resulting equations can be represented diagrammatically analogous to basis-set dependent approaches with slightly adjusted rules of interpretation. Due to the singular Coulomb potential, the working equations are regularized with an explicitly correlated ansatz. Coupled-cluster singles with approximate doubles (CC2) and similar models are implemented for closed-shell systems and in regularized form into the MADNESS library (a general library for the representation of functions and operators with multiresolution analysis). With the presented approach electronic CC2 pair-correlation energies and excitation energies can be computed with definite numerical accuracy and without dependence on global basis sets, which is verified on small molecules.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine einheitliche und allumfassende Theorie der Nicht-linearen Polarisationsspektroskopie in der Frequenzdomäne (NLPF) aufgestellt. Dies Methode basiert auf der in einer isotropen Farbstofflösung durch ein polarisiertes, monochromatisches Laserfeldes (pump) erzeugten Anisotropie, die mittels eines weiteren monochromatischen Laserfeldes (probe), mit einer um 45° gegenüber dem Pumpfeld gedrehten Polarisationsrichtung geprobt wird. Ausgehend von den grundlegenden Gleichungen für den nichtlinearen Respons molekularer Systeme auf elektromagnetische Felder wird das zweidimensional NLPF-spektrum hergeleitet, und zwar sowohl in der niedrigsten Ordnung Störungstheorie als auch unter Verwendung eines selbstkonsistenten Ansatzes für beliebige Pumpfeldstärken. In der niedrigsten Ordnung Störungstheorie können drei in ihrer Frequenzabhängigkeit sich unterscheidende Arten von Ausdrücke explizit angegeben werden. Diese sind drei Areten von Peaks im NLPF-spektrum zuzuordnen: Den T2-peaks, dem T1-peaks und den Zweiphotonen-peaks. Letztere sind unter Normalbedingungen im allgemeinen nicht beobachtbar und wurden daher nicht weiter behandelt. Die in dieser Arbeit erstmals gelungene, allgemeine und einheitliche theoretische Beschreibung der T1- und T2-peaks in NLPF-spektren von Mehrniveausystemen stellt einen Durchbruch hin zu einer allumfassenden Subbandenanalyse mittels NLPF dar. Durch Einbeziehung der teilweise bereits bekannten Auswirkungen homogener und inhomogener Linienverbreiterung und spektraler Diffusion auf NLPF-spektren, sowie deren Verallgemeinerung im Ramen der Theorie nichtmarkowscher Dissipationsprozesse, konnte eine Methodik entwickelt werden, die es erlaubt, NLPF-spektren molekularer und supramolekularer Systeme in Bezug auf das ihnen zugrundeliegende Termschema mit Übergangsfrequenzen und -dipolen, die homogenen und inhomogenen Linienbreiten, sowie dem zugeordneten Energierelaxations- und -transferpfad mitsamt zugehörigen Raten zu analysieren. Die in dieser Arbeit vorgestellte und über frühere rudimentäre Ansätze weit hinausgehende Theorie der NLPF bei starken Pumpfeldern, die auf einem selbstkonsistenten Ansatz für den Fourier-transformierten statistischen Operator beruhen, eröffnet ein komplett neues Feld von Anwendungen der NLPF. Für Zweiniveausysteme konnten die selbstkonsistenten Gleichung vollständig analytisch gelöst werden. Dabei konnten die Querverbindungen zur nichtlinearen Absorption und zum optischen Starkeffekt aufgezeigt werden. Aus der resultierenden Sättigungskurve für das NLPF-signal kann die Sättigungsintensität mit hoher Genauigkeit bestimmt werden. Diese kann unter Heranziehen der aus Analyse des T1-peaks bei niedrigen Intensitäten gewonnen Energierelaxationsrate und der analog aus T2-peakanalyse erhaltenen homogenen Linienbreite zur Bestimmung der Dipolstärke des Übergangs ohne Bestimmung der Farbstoffkonzentration verwendet werden. Dies erweist sich insbesondere bei der Analyse molekularer Aggregation als vorteilhaft. Durch Abbildung auf das gelöste Zweiniveauproblem konnte die Methodik auch auf spezielle Mehrniveausysteme übertragen werden. Eine analytische Lösung für allgemeine Mehrniveausysteme scheiterte jedoch an der komplizierten Orientierungsmittelung über die isotrope Verteilung der Übergangsdipole. Beide oben beschriebenen Methoden, Subbandanalyse bei niedrigen und Bestimmung der Übergangsdipolstärke bei hohen Pumpintensitäten, wurden in der vorliegenden Arbeit zur Untersuchung der Natur der angeregten Zustände in photosynthetischen Antennen von Purpurbakterien und höheren Pflanzen eingesetzt. Für die periphere lichtsammelnde Antenne LH2 des Purpurbakteriums Rhodobacter sphaeroides ergab die T2-peakanalyse der B850-absorptionsbande überraschenderweise zwei Subbanden, die im Absorptionsspektrum selbst bei tiefsten Temperaturen nicht aufzufinden gewesen wären. Eine Erklärung für die in Bezug auf die Oszilatorstärke asymmetrische Aufspaltung der B850-bande konnte allerdings nicht gefunden werden. Für den LH2 des sehr ähnliche Purpurbakterium Rhodospirillium molischianum konnte keine Aufspaltung der B850-bande festgestellt werden. Vielmehr liegt eine überwiegend homogen verbreiterte Bande mit einer homogener Linienbreite (FWHM) von 474±10 cm-1 und einem oberen limit für die inhomogene Linienbreite von 120 cm-1 vor. Daher wurde Rhodospirillium molischianum ausgewählt, um Delokalisation der Anregung im B850-aggregat mittels pumpintensitätsabhängiger NLPF zu untersuchen. Die Frage nach der Delokalisationslänge im B850-aggregat gab und gibt teilweise immer noch Anlass zu hitzigen Debatten. Das Ergebnis einer Ausdehnung der Anregung über 3-4 Bakteriochlorophylle des B850-aggregats der vorliegenden Arbeit unterstützt die aus Exciton-Exciton gewonnen Resultate. Weder eine vollständig lokalisierte noch vollständig delokalisierte Beschreibung war mit dem hier präsentierten Ergebnis in Übereinstimmung zu bringen. Auch im Hauptlichtsammelkomplex höherer Pflanzen LHC II konnte mittels pumpintensitätsabhängiger NLPF-spektren Delokalisation der Anregung über mindestens ein Chlì¥Á / In the work be presented a standard theory of non-linear polarization spectroscopy in the frequency domain (NLPF) will be established. The NLPF technique based on anisotropy induced in a dye-solution, which is isotropic elsewhere, by a polarized monochromatic pump laser field. This is probed by a second laser field, which polarization direction is turned of 45 degree in respect to that of the pump. From the fundamental equations describing the non-linear response of molecular systems on electromagnetic fields, the two-dimensional NLPF spectrum is deduced for arbitrary pump-intensities. At low pump-intensities a subband analysis by NLPF has been established. This allows one to study the term scheme and energy relaxation path of molecular and supra-molecular systems by their NLPF-spectra. This includes the determination of transition-frequencies and -dipole orientations, homogeneous and inhomogeneous linewidths, as well as energy relaxation rates. Furthermore, using a self-connsistent approach, the pump-fieled dependence of the NLPF-spectrum has been deduced for the two-level system in general and also for specific multi-level systems. This method allows one to determine the oscillator strength without knowledge of the concentration, what is quite useful for studying molecular aggregates. Applications are presented to the peripheral light harvesting antenna LH2 of purple bacteria and the light harvesting complexes LHC II and CP 29 of higher plants.

Ceramic-matrix composites of alumina and silicon carbide whiskers have recently found novel commercial application as electromagnetic absorbers. However, a detailed understanding of how materials issues influence the composite electrical response, which underpins this application, has been absent until now. In this project, such composites were electrically measured over a wide range of conditions and modeled in terms of various aspects of the microstructure in order to understand how they work. For this purpose, three types of composites were made by different methods from the same set of ceramic powder blends loaded with different volume fractions of whiskers. In doing so, the interfaces between whiskers, the preferred orientations of whiskers, and the structure of electrically-connected whisker clusters were varied; the whisker aspect-ratio distributions were the same for all methods. At the electrode interfaces, Schottky barriers at the junctions of the electrically-percolating wide-bandgap semiconductor whiskers on the surface were responsible for a significant portion of the total measured impedance. The associated electrical response was studied on the microscopic and macroscopic level, and the gap between these different scales was bridged. Also, a modeling approach was developed for the non-linear behavior of the composite which results from these barriers. In regards to the whiskers within the composite bulk, the effects of various factors on the wide-band frequency dependence of the dielectric response and dc conductivity were explained and contextualized for the electromagnetic absorber application. Such factors include whisker preferred orientation, electrical percolation and cluster structure, the interfaces between electrically-connected SiC whiskers, and porosity. A quantitative correlation between the anisotropy of the microstructure and that of the conductivity was found, and was understood in terms of the interfacial SiC-Al2O3-SiC conduction mechanism. This behavior was shown to differ from the behavior commonly observed for other disordered mixtures of relatively conductive particles dispersed inside insulating polymer hosts. A description of this new mechanism was developed based on an observed correlation between the temperature dependencies of the static and radio-frequency electrical responses. Also, the aforementioned non-linear response model was expanded upon to describe conduction through and across electrically-percolated clusters. The model demonstrates how loading and interface behavior influence the topology and the strength of the non-linear response of the clusters.

Si le noyau atomique peut sembler aujourd'hui un système bien connu, sa description microscopique théorique comporte toujours des lacunes : décrire la structure nucléaire des noyaux tout le long de la charte des noyaux de manière satisfaisante par une seule interaction s'avère encore compliqué aujourd'hui.Les interactions les plus performantes et les plus utilisées pour atteindre ce but sont les interactions effectives. On peut généralement classer celles-ci en deux catégories: celles de portée finie et celles de portée nulle. L'interaction de Skyrme, dont il est principalement question dans ce manuscrit, appartient à la deuxième catégorie. Apparue dans les années 50 comme un développement en gradients à l'ordre 2, sa simplicité en a longtemps fait une interaction de choix. Une collaboration internationale, UNEDF, a toutefois montré que l'interaction en l'état était trop limitée pour reproduire correctement les données expérimentales actuelles et qu'il était nécessaire d'y trouver des extensions. Ce manuscrit propose une telle extension, décrivant le processus aboutissant à l'utilisation d'un développement en gradients jusqu'à l'ordre 6.Après avoir présenté les principales forces effectives utilisées dans le cadre de la structure nucléaire, nous montrerons le comportement de cette nouvelle interaction dans le modèle idéal de la matière infinie et son application dans la description des étoiles à neutrons. Nous verrons ainsi que les performances de notre interaction se sont avérées prometteuses. La comparaison des mêmes propriétés pour des potentiels de portée finie a validé ce constat. Notre extension à l'interaction de Skyrme offre à minima des performances comparables dans ce modèle.En conséquence, nous détaillerons également dans la suite du manuscrit la manière dont nous avons poursuivi le développement de notre nouvelle interaction en l'adaptant pour la description de noyaux sphériques. La dernière partie présente le processus d'ajustement de notre interaction, visant à une description des noyaux le long de la charte nucléaire. Une paramétrisation issue d'un tel ajustement sera enfin proposée / The nucleus may seem well known, but its microscopic description still isn't perfect. Describing accurately the nuclei along the nuclear chart remain complicated.Nowadays, the effective interactions are the best choice to achieve such a goal, and can be sorted in two categories: finite-range and zero-range. Skyrme interaction, the main subject of this report, belongs to the latter. Used since the 50s because of its simplicity, it is an expansion of gradients up to the 2th order. However, an international collaboration, UNEDF, showed recently that this interaction was too limited to describe all the nuclear constraints given by experimental datas. The conclusion was the necessity of Skyrme interaction extensions.This thesis is describing the process from the design of the interaction to its use in nuclei and in fitting procedures.First, we review the requirements and the construction of a general nuclear interactions, and the main interactions used in nuclear structure, both finite and zero range.We then show the behaviour of these interactions in a perfect model: the infinite nuclear matter. This is considered a preliminary test for every interaction aiming to describe nuclei, and the performances of our interactions are discussed, along the performances of the other models.The last part of the thesis is the adaptation of our extension for calculations of nuclei. Furthermore, the fitting procedure of our extended Skyrme interaction on both infinite nuclear matter and nuclei quantities is detailed. A resulting parametrisation is presented at the end of the thesis, aiming to describe more accurately the nuclear chart and the additional physic provided by the new terms