M.Sc. / In this dissertation, a symmetry analysis of a third order non-linear partial differential equation which describes the filtration of a non-Newtonian liquid in porous media is performed. A review of the derivation of the partial differential equation is given which is based on the Darcy Law. The partial differential equation contains a parameter n and a function f. We derive the Lie Point Symmetries of the partial differential equation for all cases of n and f. These symmetries are used to find the invariant solutions of the partial differential equation. We find that there is only one conservation law for the partial differential equation with f and n arbitrary and we prove that there is no potential symmetry corresponding to this conservation law for any case of n and f.

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Résumé de la thèse :ce travail porte sur la notion d'espace symétrique symplectique extrinsèque. Ces espaces sont des espaces symétriques symplectiques dont la structure est induite par le plongement dans variété symplectique ambiante munie d'une connexion.<p><p>Par analogie à la théorie standard des espaces symétriques, nous démontrons un théorème d'équivalence entre les espaces symétriques symplectiques extrinsèques d'une variété qui est elle-même un espace symétrique symplectique.<p><p>La définition d'un espace symétrique symplectique extrinsèque fait intervenir l'existence d'affinités globales de la variété ambiante, les ``symétries extrinsèques', qui induisent la structure symétrique de la sous-variété ;ceci mène à poser une question du type :quelles sont les variétés possédant ``beaucoup' de ces affinités~? Une question précise ainsi qu'une réponse sont fournies dans un contexte où la variété ambiante est seulement supposée munie d'une structure<p>symplectique et d'une connexion symplectiques. Nous considérons également le cas où ces symétries commutent avec un champ $K$ d'endomorphismes symplectiques fixé de la variété, de carré $pmId$. Nous définissons une notion de courbure sectionnelle pour plans $K$-stables et montrons que les espaces à $K$-courbure sectionnelle constantes sont localement symétriques de type Ricci.<p><p>Par suite nous étudions les espaces symétriques symplectiques extrinsèques dans un espace vectoriel symplectique. Nous montrons par exemple qu'un tel espace, s'ils est de dimension deux, est forcément intrinsèquement plat (c.-à-d. à courbure intrinsèque nulle), mais que son image n'est pas forcément un plan affin de l'espace vectoriel ambiant. Nous décrivons en fait explicitement tous les espaces<p>symétriques symplectiques extrinsèques, dans un espace vectoriel, dont la courbure intrinsèque s'annule identiquement. Nous décrivons également une famille d'exemples d'espaces extrinsèques, dont nous montrons qu'elle fournit la totalité des espaces extrinsèques de codimension $2$, dans un espace vectoriel.<p><p>Enfin, nous décrivons quelques exemples d'espaces symétriques symplectiques extrinsèques qui sont totalement géodésiques, dans un espace de type Ricci particulier.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis is dedicated to the study of the existence of homogeneous Einstein metrics on the total space of homogeneous fibrations such that the fibers are totally geodesic manifolds. We obtain the Ricci curvature of an invariant metric with totally geodesic fibers and some necessary conditions for the existence of Einstein metrics with totally geodesic fibers in terms of Casimir operators. Some particular cases are studied, for instance, for normal base or fiber, symmetric fiber, Einstein base or fiber, for which the Einstein equations are manageable. We investigate the existence of such Einstein metrics for invariant bisymmetric fibrations of maximal rank, i.e., when both the base and the fiber are symmetric spaces and the base is an isotropy irreducible space of maximal rank. We find this way new Einstein metrics. For such spaces we describe explicitly the isotropy representation in terms subsets of roots and compute the eigenvalues of the Casimir operators of the fiber along the horizontal direction. Results for compact simply connected 4-symmetric spaces of maximal rank follow from this. Also, new invariant Einstein metrics are found on Kowalski n-symmetric spaces.

The work is divided into three main parts. In a first time (chapter 1) we define a “BTZ” black hole in anti de Sitter space in any dimension. That will be done by means of group theoretical and symmetric spaces considerations. A physical “good domain” is identified as an open orbit of a subgroup of the isometry group of anti de Sitter. Then (chapter 2) we show that the open orbit is in fact isomorphic to a group (we introduce the notion of globally group type manifold) for which a quantization exists. The quantization of the black hole is performed and its Dirac operator is computed. The third part (appendix A and B) exposes some previously known results. Appendix A is given in a pedagogical purpose: it exposes generalities about deformation quantization and careful examples with SL(2,R), and split extensions of Heisenberg algebras. Appendix B is devoted to some classical results about homogeneous spaces and Iwasawa decompositions. Explicit decompositions are given for every algebra that will be used in the thesis. It serves to make the whole text more self contained and to fix notations. Basics of quantization by group action are given in appendix A.4. One more chapter is inserted (chapter 3). It contains two small results which have no true interest by themselves but which raise questions and call for further development. We discuss a product on the half-plane or, equivalently, on the Iwasawa subgroup of SL(2,R), due to A. Unterberger. We show that the quantization by group action machinery can be applied to this product in order to deform the dual of the Lie algebra of that Iwasawa subgroup. Although this result seems promising, we show by two examples that the product is not universal in the sense that even the product of compactly supported functions cannot be defined on AdS2 by the quantization induced by Unterberger's product. Then we show that the Iwasawa subgroup of SO(2,n) (i.e. the group which defines the singularity) is a symplectic split extension of the Iwasawa subgroup of SU(1,1) by the Iwasawa subgroup of SU(1,n). A quantization of the two latter groups being known, a quantization of SO(2,n) is in principle possible using an extension lemma. Properties of this product and the resulting quantization of AdSl were not investigated because we found a more economical way to quantize AdS4 .

In this thesis, we seek exact solutions for the interior of a radiating relativistic star undergoing gravitational collapse. The spherically symmetric interior spacetime, when matched with the exterior radiating Vaidya spacetime, at the boundary of the star, yields the governing equation describing the gravitational behaviour of the collapsing star. The investigation of the model hinges on the solution of the governing equation at the boundary. We first examine shear-free models which are conformally flat. The boundary condition is transformed to an Abel equation and several new solutions are generated. We then study collapse with shear in geodesic motion. Two classes of solutions are generated which are regular at the stellar centre. Our treatment extends the results of Naidu et al (2006) which had the undesirable feature of a singularity at the centre of the star. In an attempt to find more general models, we transform the fundamental equation to a Riccati equation. Two general classes of solution are found and are used to study the thermal evolution in the causal theory of thermodynamics. These solutions are shown to reduce to the Friedmann dust solution in the absence of heat flow. Furthermore, we obtain new categories of solutions for the case of gravitational collapse with expansion, shear and acceleration of the stellar fluid. This is achieved by transforming the boundary condition into a Riccati equation. In special cases the Bernoulli equation is regained. The solutions are given in terms of elementary functions and they permit the investigation of the physical features of radiative stellar collapse. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2007.

In this thesis we study spherically symmetric spacetimes related to the Einstein field equations. We consider only neutral matter and apply the Einstein field equations with isotropic pressures. Our object is to model relativistic stellar systems. We express the Einstein field equations and the condition of pressure isotropy in terms of Schwarzschild coordinates and isotropic coordinates. For Schwarzschild coordinates we consider the transformations due to Buchdahl (1959), Durgapal and Bannerji (1983), Fodor (2000) and Tewari and Pant (2010). The condition of pressure isotropy is integrated and new exact solutions of the field equations are obtained utilizing the transformations of Buchdahl (1959) and Tewari and Pant (2010). These exact solutions are given in terms of elementary functions. For isotropic coordinates we can express the condition of pressure isotropy as a Riccati equation or a linear equation. An algorithm is developed that produces a new solution if a particular solution is known. The transformations reduce to a nonlinear Bernoulli equation in most instances. There are fundamentally three new classes of solutions to the condition of pressure isotropy. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2011.

One of the central themes of modern Number Theory is to study properties of Galois and automorphic representations and connections between them. In our dissertation, we describe two different projects that study properties of these objects. In our first project, which is analytic in nature, we consider Artin representations of Q of dimension 3 that are self-dual. We show that these occur with density 0 when counted using the conductor. This provides evidence that self-dual representations should be rare in all dimensions. Our second project, which is more algebraic in nature, is related to automorphic representations. We show the existence of canonical models for certain unitary Shimura varieties. This should help us in computing certain cohomology groups of these varieties, in which regular algebraic automorphic representations having useful properties should be found.

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Dans cette thèse, nous étudions des transformées de type Radon sur certains espaces symétriques. Une transformée de type Radon associe à toute fonction continue à support compact sur une variété $M$ ses intégrales sur une classe $Xi$ de sous-variétés de $M$. Le problème sur lequel nous nous concentrons est l'inversion d'une telle transformée, c'est-à-dire déterminer la fonction à partir de ses intégrales sur les sous-variétés dans $Xi$. Nous présentons d'abord la solution de ce problème inverse due à Sigurdur Helgason et François Rouvière, entre autres, lorsque $M$ est un espace symétrique riemannien isotrope et $Xi$ une certaine orbite de sous-variétés totalement géodésiques de $M$ sous l'action d'un groupe de transformations de Lie de $M$. La transformée de Radon associée est qualifiée de totalement géodésique.Sur les espaces symétriques pseudo-riemanniens semisimples, nous considérons une autre transformée de type Radon, qui associe à toute fonction continue à support compact ses intégrales orbitales, c'est-à-dire ses intégrales sur les orbites du sous-groupe d'isotropie du groupe des transvections. L'inversion des intégrales orbitales, qui est donnée par une formule-limite, a été obtenue par Sigurdur Helgason sur les espaces symétriques lorentziens à courbure sectionnelle constante et par Jeremy Orloff sur tout espace symétrique pseudo-riemannien semisimple de rang un. Nous résolvons le problème d'inversion des intégrales orbitales sur les espaces de Cahen-Wallach, qui sont les modèles d'espaces symétriques lorentziens indécomposables résolubles.Pour finir, nous nous intéressons aux transformées de type Radon sur les espaces symétriques symplectiques à courbure de type Ricci. L'inversion des orbitales intégrales sur ces espaces lorsqu'ils sont semisimples a déjà été obtenue par Jeremy Orloff. En revanche, lorsque ces espaces ne sont pas semisimples, la transformée donnée par les intégrales orbitales n’est pas inversible. Ensuite, nous déterminons les orbites de sous-variétés totalement géodésiques symplectiques ou lagrangiennes sous l'action d'un groupe de transformations de Lie de l'espace de départ. Dans ce contexte, la méthode d'inversion développée par Sigurdur Helgason et François Rouvière, entre autres, ne fonctionne que pour les transformées de Radon totalement géodésiques symplectiques sur les espaces symétriques kählériens à courbure holomorphe constante. Les formules d'inversion de ces transformées sur les espaces hyperboliques complexes sont dues à François Rouvière. Nous calculons les formules d'inversion de ces transformées sur les espaces projectifs complexes. / In this thesis, we study Radon-type transforms on some symmetric spaces. A Radon-type transform associates to any compactly supported continuous function on a manifold $M$ its integrals over a class $Xi$ of submanifolds of $M$. The problem we address is the inversion of such a transform, that is determining the function in terms of its integrals over the submanifolds in $Xi$. We first present the solution to this inverse problem which is due to Sigurdur Helgason and François Rouvière, amongst others, when $M$ is an isotropic Riemannian symmetric space and $Xi$ a particular orbit of totally geodesic submanifolds of $M$ under the action of a Lie transformation group of $M$. The associated Radon transform is qualified as totally geodesic.On semisimple pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces, we consider an other Radon-type transform, which associates to any compactly supported continuous function its orbital integrals, that is its integrals over the orbits of the isotropy subgroup of the transvection group. The inversion of orbital integrals, which is given by a limit-formula, has been obtained by Sigurdur Helgason on Lorentzian symmetric spaces with constant sectional curvature and by Jeremy Orloff on any rank-one semisimple pseudo-Riemannian symmetric space. We solve the inverse problem for orbital integrals on Cahen-Wallach spaces, which are model spaces of solvable indecomposable Lorentzian symmetric spaces.In the last part of the thesis, we are interested in Radon-type transforms on symplectic symmetric spaces with Ricci-type curvature. The inversion of orbital integrals on these spaces when they are semisimple has already been obtained by Jeremy Orloff. However, when these spaces are not semisimple, the orbital integral operator is not invertible. Next, we determine the orbits of symplectic or Lagrangian totally geodesic submanifolds under the action of a Lie transformation group of the starting space. In this context, the technique of inversion that has been developed by Sigurdur Helgason and François Rouvière, amongst others, only works for symplectic totally geodesic Radon transforms on Kählerian symmetric spaces with constant holomorphic curvature. The inversion formulas for these transforms on complex hyperbolic spaces are due to François Rouvière. We compute the inversion formulas for these transforms on complex projective spaces. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished