The investigation is initially a continuation of Neuberger's work on linear boundary value problems. A very general iterative procedure for solution of these problems is described. The alternating-projection theorem of von Neumann is the mathematical starting point for this study. Later theorems demonstrate the validity of numerical approximation for Neuberger's method under certain conditions. A sampling of differential equations within the scope of our iterative method is given. The numerical evidence is that the procedure works well on neutral-state equations, for which no software is written now.

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Dans le cadre discrétisé, la taille d'un ensemble à l'échelle δ est évaluée par son nombre de recouvrement par δ-boules (également connu sous le nom de l'entropie métrique). Dans cette thèse, nous étudions les propriétés combinatoires des ensembles discrétisés sous l'addition, la multiplication et les projections orthogonales. Il y a trois parties principales. Premièrement, nous démontrons un théorème somme-produit dans les algèbres de matrices, qui généralise un théorème somme-produit de Bourgain concernant l'anneau des réels. On améliore aussi des estimées somme-produit en dimension supérieure obtenues précédemment par Bougain et Gamburd. Deuxièmement, on étudie les projections orthogonales des sous-ensembles de l'espace euclidien et étend ainsi le théorème de projection discrétisé de Bourgain aux projections de rang supérieur. Enfin, dans un travail en commun avec Nicolas de Saxcé, nous démontrons un théorème produit dans les groupes de Lie parfaits. Ce dernier résultat généralise les travaux antérieurs de Bourgain-Gamburd et de Saxcé. / In the discretized setting, the size of a set is measured by its covering number by δ-balls (a.k.a. metric entropy), where δ is the scale. In this document, we investigate combinatorial properties of discretized sets under addition, multiplication and orthogonal projection. There are three parts. First, we prove sum-product estimates in matrix algebras, generalizing Bourgain's sum-product theorem in the ring of real numbers and improving higher dimensional sum-product estimates previously obtained by Bourgain-Gamburd. Then, we study orthogonal projections of subsets in the Euclidean space, generalizing Bourgain's discretized projection theorem to higher rank situations. Finally, in a joint work with Nicolas de Saxcé, we prove a product theorem for perfect Lie groups, generalizing previous results of Bourgain-Gamburd and Saxcé.

We introduce methods to cope with self-similar sets when we do not assume any separation condition. For a self-similar set K ⊆ ℝᵈ we establish a similarity dimension-like formula for Hausdorff dimension regardless of any separation condition. By the application of this result we deduce that the Hausdorff measure and Hausdorff content of K are equal, which implies that K is Ahlfors regular if and only if Hᵗ (K) > 0 where t = dim[sub]H K. We further show that if t = dim[sub]H K < 1 then Hᵗ (K) > 0 is also equivalent to the weak separation property. Regarding Hausdorff dimension, we give a dimension approximation method that provides a tool to generalise results on non-overlapping self-similar sets to overlapping self-similar sets. We investigate how the Hausdorff dimension and measure of a self-similar set K ⊆ ℝᵈ behave under linear mappings. This depends on the nature of the group T generated by the orthogonal parts of the defining maps of K. We show that if T is finite then every linear image of K is a graph directed attractor and there exists at least one projection of K such that the dimension drops under projection. In general, with no restrictions on T we establish that Hᵗ (L ∘ O(K)) = Hᵗ (L(K)) for every element O of the closure of T , where L is a linear map and t = dim[sub]H K. We also prove that for disjoint subsets A and B of K we have that Hᵗ (L(A) ∩ L(B)) = 0. Hochman and Shmerkin showed that if T is dense in SO(d; ℝ) and the strong separation condition is satisfied then dim[sub]H (g(K)) = min {dim[sub]H K; l} for every continuously differentiable map g of rank l. We deduce the same result without any separation condition and we generalize a result of Eroğlu by obtaining that Hᵗ (g(K)) = 0. We show that for the attractor (K1, … ,Kq) of a graph directed iterated function system, for each 1 ≤ j ≤ q and ε > 0 there exists a self-similar set K ⊆ Kj that satisfies the strong separation condition and dim[sub]H Kj - ε < dim[sub]H K. We show that we can further assume convenient conditions on the orthogonal parts and similarity ratios of the defining similarities of K. Using this property we obtain results on a range of topics including on dimensions of projections, intersections, distance sets and sums and products of sets. We study the situations where the Hausdorff measure and Hausdorff content of a set are equal in the critical dimension. Our main result here shows that this equality holds for any subset of a set corresponding to a nontrivial cylinder of an irreducible subshift of finite type, and thus also for any self-similar or graph directed self-similar set, regardless of separation conditions. The main tool in the proof is an exhaustion lemma for Hausdorff measure based on the Vitali's Covering Theorem. We also give several examples showing that one cannot hope for the equality to hold in general if one moves in a number of the natural directions away from `self-similar'. Finally we consider an analogous version of the problem for packing measure. In this case we need the strong separation condition and can only prove that the packing measure and δ-approximate packing pre-measure coincide for sufficiently small δ > 0.