Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:07:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lima_nraml_dr_fran_parcial.pdf: 266613 bytes, checksum: 5ccb285694d279c3f0e1c3bd6538513d (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este estudo tem como tema central a história da doença pênfigo foliáceo endêmico e do Hospital do Pênfigo de Uberaba (MG), fundado no ano de 1957 e ainda em atividade. O hospital recebe pacientes portadores desta doença, popularmente conhecida como fogo selvagem, provenientes de diversas regiões do Brasil. Considerada como uma das únicas doenças autoimunes com características endêmicas, classifica-se cientificamente como sendo uma dermatose bolhosa, comumente presente em regiões geográficas de climas tropicais, cuja etiologia, a despeito do empenho em pesquisas científicas, ainda permanece desconhecida. No Brasil, seu tratamento vem sendo realizado desde o final da década de 1960, com medicamentos à base de corticosteróides, potente anti-inflamatório descoberto no final da década de 1950. O Hospital do Pênfigo, em Uberaba, é a única instituição remanescente que se dedica de modo específico, com exclusividade, ao tratamento do pênfigo foliáceo endêmico. Instituição considerada pelo Estado como de utilidade pública, o hospital é administrado e parcialmente mantido por integrantes do segmento cultural espírita e oferece, além da terapêutica tradicional, também outras, integrativas, tais como o passe magnético, a desobsessão e a fluidificação da água. Ao registrar a história deste hospital, esta pesquisa traz também subsídios para a compreensão da evolução da doença e de seu tratamento, no Brasil. Destacamos a história da fundadora Aparecida Conceição Ferreira, da peculiar maneira por ela desenvolvida de tratar a doença e da sua amizade com o médium Francisco Cândido Xavier, desde os começos da construção e edificação do hospital, cujas raízes se fundam nos preceitos morais e na filosofia da história que sustentam a teoria doutrinária espírita do francês Allan Kardec. A escrita... / The theme of this study is the history of Endemic Pemphigus Foliaceus disease, as well as of the Pemphigus Hospital of Uberaba – (MG), founded in 1957 and still active. The hospital receives patients with endemic pemphigus foliaceus disease, popularly known as “fogo selvagem”, from several regions of Brazil. Regarded as one of the few autoimmune diseases with endemic features, it is scientifically classified as a bullous dermatosis, usually found in geographical regions of tropical climates, which etiology, despite all efforts in scientific researches, still remains unknown. In Brazil, its treatment has been performed since the late 1960s, with medicines based on corticosteroids, potent anti-inflammatory discovered in the late 1950s. The Pemphigus Hospital, in Uberaba, is the only remaining institution which is engaged in a specific way, exclusively to the treatment of the endemic pemphigus foliaceus disease. The institution is considered by the state as of public utility and the hospital is run and partially maintained by members of the Spiritist cultural movement. Besides the traditional therapy, the treatment offers integrative ones, such as the magnetic healing, the disobsession and the magnetization of the water. Registering the history of this Hospital this research brings subsidies concerning the evolution comprehension of the disease and its treatment in Brazil. We highlighted the history of its founder – Aparecida Conceição Ferreira and her peculiar manner of treating the disease, moreover her friendship with the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier, since the beginnings of construction and Hospital edification, whose roots are founded on moral principles of the Spiritist Doctrine philosophy of the French Allan Kardec. The history writing on this dissertation emphasizes the theoretical contribution of Michel de Certeau and the concept of historical symmetries of Hermínio Miranda as a metho

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In a differential geometry setting, we can analyze the solutions to systems of differential equations in such a way as to allow us to derive entire classes of solutions from any given solution. This process involves calculating the Lie symmetries of a system of equations and looking at the resulting transformations. In this paper we will give a general background of the theory necessary to develop the ideas of working in the jet space of a given system of equations, applying this theory to harmonic functions in the complex plane. We will consider harmonic functions in general, harmonic functions with constant Jacobian, harmonic functions with fixed convexity and a few other subclasses of harmonic functions.

In dieser Arbeit werden die Grundlagen von zwei häufig auftretenden Merkmalen unserer Naturgesetze untersucht: Eichsymmetrien und Quantisierung. Durch die Betrachtung dieser Merkmale im mathematischen Rahmen von Homotopie-Algebren wollen wir neue Methoden zur Berechnung physikalischer Observablen beschreiben, insbesondere in der Kosmologie und der Quantenmechanik. Zunächst befassen wir uns mit dem Problem der Eichredundanzen, die es schwer machen zu erkennen, welche Größen eine physikalische Bedeutung haben. Im Jahr 1980 erreichte Bardeen dieses Ziel in der kosmologischen Störungstheorie zu erster Ordnung. Die Frage, ob dieses Verfahren auf die perturbative Expansion von Eichtheorien aller Ordnungen ausgedehnt werden kann, ist seitdem jedoch offen geblieben. Wir zeigen, dass die Umformulierung von Eichtheorien in eichinvariante Felder als ein Transfer von homotopie-algebraischer Strukturen verstanden werden kann. Unter Verwendung dieses mathematischen Rahmens erweitern wir dann die Gültigkeit der Bardeen-Variablen auf perturbative Eichtheorien zu allen Ordnungen. Nach der Einführung eines systematisches Verfahrens für die eichinvariante Störungstheorie betrachten wir die Berechnung von Observablen in der Doppelfeldtheorie um zeitabhängige Hintergründe. Indem wir die Doppelfeldtheorie um zeitabhängige Hintergründe quadratischer und kubischer Ordnung erweitern und die quadratische Wirkung in den eichinvarianten Variablen ausdrücken, schaffen wir eine Grundlage für zukünftige Berechnungen, insbesondere zur Untersuchung des Einflusses massiver Stringmoden in kosmologischen Hintergründen. Zum Schluss betrachten wir einen anderen Ansatz zur Berechnung von Erwartungswerten in der Quantenmechanik. Obwohl die Pfadintegralformulierung der Quantenmechanik für den Fortschritt der Quantentheorie von entscheidender Bedeutung war, fehlt ihr immer noch eine strenge mathematische Definition. Die Reduktion eines unendlich-dimensionalen Raums von klassisch erlaubten Trajektorien auf einen Erwartungswert, der lediglich eine Funktion der Anfangs- und Endrandbedingungen ist, hat jedoch eine homotopiealgebraische Interpretation. Mit Hilfe des Batalin-Vilkovisky-Formalismus, der eng mit Homotopie-Lie-Algebren verwandt ist, entwickeln wir einen homologischen Ansatz zur Berechnung von Quantenerwartungswerten. Als Beispiel betrachten wir den harmonischen Oszillator und zeigen, dass unsere Methode auch im Kontext der Quantenfeldtheorie in gekrümmter Raumzeit verwendet werden kann, indem wir den Unruh-Effekt berechnen. / This thesis examines the underpinnings of two frequently manifest features of our laws of nature: gauge symmetries and quantization. By studying these features through the mathematical framework of homotopy algebras, we aim to describe new methods towards the computation of physical observables, in particular for cosmology and quantum mechanics. First, we deal with the problem of gauge redundancies, which make it difficult to discern which quantities have physical meaning. In 1980, Bardeen introduced a procedure to achieve this goal in first order cosmological perturbation theory. However, the question whether this procedure can be extended to the perturbative expansion of gauge theories to all orders has remained open since then. We show that, in general, the reformulation of gauge theories in gauge invariant fields has the interpretation of transferring homotopy algebraic structure. Utilising this mathematical framework, we then generalize Bardeen’s procedure to perturbative expansions of gauge theories to all orders in perturbations. After establishing a systematic procedure for gauge invariant perturbation theory, we set up the stage for computing observables in double field theory around time-dependent backgrounds. Double field theory not only has T-duality as a manifest symmetry, which is expected to be important in string cosmology proposals, but is also (in its weakly constrained form) a description of massive string modes, and hence is a suitable arena to investigate the imprint of massive string modes in cosmological backgrounds. By expanding double field theory around time-dependent backgrounds to quadratic and cubic order and expressing the quadratic action in terms of gauge invariant variables, we provide a basis for future computations. Finally, we describe a different approach for computing expectation values in quantum mechanics. Though having been essential for the progress of quantum theory, the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics still lacks a rigorous mathematical definition. However, the act of reducing an infinite-dimensional space of classically allowed trajectories into an expectation value which is merely a function of the initial and final boundary conditions does have a homotopy algebraic interpretation. Through the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, which is closely related to homotopy Lie algebras, we build a homological approach for computing quantum expectation values. We demonstrate our method for the harmonic oscillator and we show that our method can also be used in the context of quantum field theory in curved spacetime by rederiving the Unruh effect.

The lack of direct evidence for physics beyond the SM at the LHC has led some to reevaluate the need for such physics to solve the hierarchy problem. Instead, the notion that the SM, or something like it, is valid up to the Planck scale and that technical naturalness is sufficient for solving the hierarchy problem has been suggested. This thesis examines minimal extensions of the SM that address its phenomenological and theoretical shortcomings while avoiding new physics between the electroweak and Planck scales that introduces a hierarchy problem. This thesis first studies two issues with the vMSM - an extension of the SM by three right-handed neutrinos - and their possible solutions. The first issue is the tension between dark matter production in the nuMSM and constraints from the Lyman-alpha forest data. To avoid this tension, the vMSM is extended by a Higgs singlet Φ and neutrino dark matter is produced through the decays of Φ rather than through left-right neutrino mixing. It is shown that the hierarchical parameters of this model can arise from symmetries broken at or near the Planck scale for two specific examples: one in which Φ stabilizes the electroweak vacuum and one in which Φ is a light inflaton. The second issue pertains to Higgs ξ-inflation. In the vMSM, a large non-minimal coupling ξ of the Higgs to gravity gives inflation but leads to a possible violation of perturbative unitarity below the inflationary scale. A study of Higgs ξ-inflation with M_h ≃ 125-126 GeV, for which the Higgs self-coupling λ runs to small values near the Planck scale, is carried out. It is shown that small λ can significantly reduce ξ required for inflation, but ξ cannot be small enough to address the possible unitarity issue. For small λ, a new region of Higgs ξ-inflation with a large tensor-to-scalar ratio r that is consistent with BICEP2 is discovered. This thesis then studies the technical naturalness and cosmology of a model that addresses the strong CP problem. It is shown that a classically scale invariant DFSZ invisible aξon model with a Peccei-Quinn scalar S, whose couplings to the SM are ultra-weak, can solve the strong CP problem and generate electroweak symmetry breaking via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. The ultra-weak couplings of S are natural due to an underlying approξmate shift symmetry. The model contains a light pseudo-Goldstone dilaton that can be consistent with cosmological bounds while the aξon can be the dark matter of the universe. Finally, a summary of the thesis is presented and future research topics are suggested.

In this work we study properties of the higher-dimensional generally rotating black hole space-time so-called Kerr-NUT-(A)dS and the related spaces with the same explicit and hidden symetries as the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime. First, we search commuta- tivity conditions for classical (charged) observables and their operator analogues, then we investigate a fulfilment of these conditions in the metioned spaces. We calculate the curvature of these spaces and solve the charged Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations by the separation of the variables for an electromagnetic field, which pre- serves integrability of motion of a charged particle and mutual commutativity of the corresponding operators.

Relação de dispersão é outro nome para a função Hamiltoniana, cujo conhecimento especica completamente a dinâmica de um sistema no formalismo da mecânica classica. Sua escolha está intimamente vinculada às simetrias do sistema e, no contexto cosmologico aqui apresentado, com as simetrias locais obedecidas pelas leis fsicas. Mais ainda, a contribuição da materia na dinâmica cosmologica reflete a escolha do grupo local de simetrias das leis fsicas. Por outro lado, o problema fundamental da cosmologia pode ser definido como a construção de um modelo de evolução temporal de estados que, sob as hipoteses mais simples sobre estados iniciais (digamos, que demande a menor quantidade de informação possível para serem enunciadas), prediga o estado atual observado. O paradigma inacionario é atualmente a ideia que melhor cumpre esta denição, uma vez que prediz que uma grande variedade de condições iniciais leva a aspectos fundamentais do universo observado. Contudo, os mecanismos usuais de realização da inflação sofrem de problemas conceituais. O ponto de vista deste trabalho e que a realização convencional da inflação, isto é, atraves dos campos escalares minimamente acoplados, é a formulação localmente relativisticamente invariante da inflação. A maneira de incluir quebras e deformações da estrutura de simetrias locais na cosmologia é não única e está associado ao chamado problema trans Planckiano da inflação. Analogamente, a motivação conceitual para incluir esse tipo de modicação tampouco é unica. Dependendo do esquema de realização, a versão localmente não relativstica da mesma pode apresentar graves diculdades de conciliação com observações atuais, ou apresentar vantagens conceituais em relacão ao modelo padrão de inflacão, enquanto em conformidade com observações cosmológicas. Da maneira como foi posto o problema fundamental da cosmologia, a escolha das simetrias locais influi na regra de evolução dos estados. O conceito de simetrias encontra sua formulação independente de teorias físicas no formalismo da teoria de grupos, mas consideraremos uma extensão da ideia, de aplicabilidade mais geral, a teoria das algebras de Hopf que, de certo modo, trata das simetrias de estruturas algebricas. Esta extensão é útil inclusive no trato de simetrias dos espacos não comutativos, uma das principais propostas fsicas que em última analise afeta a estrutura de simetrias locais do espaco-tempo. A expressão simetrias locais, por si só, não diz muito sem a consideração de regras de realização. Essas regras dependem da estrutura matematica das observaveis da teoria. Sob hipoteses muito gerais, que não especicam uma teoria em particular, é possível mostrar, não como um teorema matematico formal, mas como uma hipotese tecnicamente bem motivada, que existem apenas dois tipos de teorias fsicas: as classicas e as quânticas. Trabalharemos sob essas hipoteses, as quais se formulam algebricamente assumindo a estrutura de C*-álgebra para as observaveis físicas, outra motivação para o uso das álgebras de Hopf para descrição das simetrias da natureza. / Dispersion relation is another name for the Hamiltonian function whose knowledge completely specifies the dynamics in the formalism of classical mechanics. Its choice is intimately related to the symmetries of the system, and, in the cosmological context here exposed, with the local space-time symmetries obeyed by physical laws. For the other side, the fundamental problem of cosmology can be defined as a construction of a time evolution model of states which, under simplest possible hypothesis concerning initial conditions (say, which demands the minimal amount of information to be specified), predicts the present observed state. The inflationary paradigm is currently the idea which better accomplishes this definition, since it predicts that a great variety of initial conditions lead to essential aspects of observed universe. The usual mechanisms of inflation suffer, however, with conceptual problems. The point of view of this work is that the usual realization of inflation based on weakly coupled scalar fields is the local relativistic invariant realization. The way of including breaks and deformations of the local space-time symmetries is not unique and it is associated to the so called Trans-Planckian problem of inflation. Analogously, the motivation to include this kind of modification is neither unique. Depending of the scheme of realization, the locally non-relativistic version may lead to serious difficulties in conciliation with observations, or to conceptual advantages over standard formulations while in accordance with observational data. In the way that was proposed the fundamental problem of cosmology, the choice of local symmetries affects the rule of evolution of states. The concept of symmetry finds its formulation independently of physical theories in the group theory formalism, but we will consider an extension of the idea, with wider applicability, the theory of Hopf algebras, which is about symmetries of algebraic structures. That extension is also useful to deal with symmetries of non-commutative spaces, one of the main physical proposals that affects the structure of space-time symmetries. The expression, local symmetries, by itself, does not say too much without considering realization rules. Those rules depend on mathematical structure of observables in the theory. Under very general hypothesis that do not specify a particular theory, it is possible to show, not as a formal mathematical theorem, but as a technically well motivated hypothesis, that only two types of physical theories do exist: The classical ones and the quantum ones. We are going to work under those hypothesis, which can be algebraically formulated assuming a C*-algebra structure for physical observables, another motivation for the use of algebraic structures like Hopf algebras for the description of nature\'s symmetries

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden versteckte Symmetrien innnerhalb der N=4 supersymmetrischen Yang--Mills Theorie oder der nach der AdS/CFT Korrespondenz dualen Beschreibung durch eine String-Theorie in AdS5 x S5 besprochen. Dabei betrachten wir die Maldacena--Wilson Schleife, die sich für diese Untersuchungen besonders eignet, da ihr Vakuum-Erwartungswert für glatte Kurven nicht divergiert und die vermutete Dualität zu Streuamplituden wenigstens konzeptionell eine Möglichkeit bietet, etwaige Symmetrien zu anderen Observablen zu übertragen. Ihre Beschreibung durch Minimalflächen in AdS5 erlaubt es, Symmetrien mithilfe der Integrabilität der zugrunde liegenden klassischen String-Theorie zu konstruieren. Dieser Zugang wurde bereits in der Herleitung der Yang'schen Symmetrie der Maldacena--Wilson Schleife bei starker Kopplung sowie in der Beschreibung von Deformationen gleiches Flächeninhalts von Minimalflächen in AdS3 verwendet. Diese beiden Ergebnisse werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit miteinander verbunden und erweitert. Im Sinne einer systematischen Herangehensweise besprechen wir zunächst die Symmetriestruktur der zugrunde liegenden String-Theorie. Diese Diskussion lässt sich auf die Diskussion von String-Theorien in symmetrischen Räumen verallgemeinern. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Symmetrie, welche die Deformationen gleiches Flächeninhalts in AdS3 erzeugt, in der Symmetriestruktur dieser Modelle eine zentrale Rolle einnimmt: Sie wirkt als Aufsteige-Operator auf den unendlich vielen erhalten Ladungen und generiert somit den Spektralparameter. Weiterhin lässt sie sich anwenden, um ausgehend von der globalen Symmetrie sämtliche Symmetrien des zugrunde liegenden Modells zu konstruieren. Sie wird daher als die Master-Symmetrie dieser Modelle bezeichnet. Zusätzlich wird die Algebra der Symmetrie-Variationen sowie der erhaltenen Ladungen ausgearbeitet. Für den konkreten Fall von Minimalflächen in AdS5 diskutieren wir die Deformation der Minimalflächenlösung für den Fall eines lichtartigen Vierecks. Diese liefert die duale Beschreibung der Streuamplitude für vier Gluonen. Damit unternehmen wir einen ersten Schritt zur Übertragung der Master-Symmetrie auf Streuamplituden. Weiterhin berechnen wir die Variation der Randkurven der Minimalflächen unter der Master- und Yang'schen Symmetrie für allgemeine, glatte Randkurven. Das Ergebnis dieser Rechnung führt auf eine Verallgemeinerung der Master-Symmetrie zu einer Variation, die von der Kopplungskonstanten abhängt und für beliebige Werte der Kopplungskonstanten eine Symmetrie der Maldacena--Wilson Schleife darstellt. Unsere Diskussion erklärt das Scheitern vorheriger Versuche, die entsprechende Symmetrie im Spezialfall von Minimalflächen in AdS3 zu schwacher Kopplung zu übertragen. Wir besprechen verschiedene Ansätze, die Yang'sche Symmetrie zu schwacher oder beliebiger Kopplung zu übertragen, schlussfolgern aber letztendlich, dass eine Yang'sche Symmetrie der Maldacena--Wilson Schleife nicht vorzuliegen scheint. Die Situation ändert sich, wenn wir Wilson Schleifen in Superräumen betrachten. Diese sind die natürlichen supersymmetrischen Erweiterungen der Maldacena--Wilson Schleife. Für die Yang'sche Invarianz ihres Vakuum-Erwartungswerts wurden wichtige Anhaltspunkte gefunden und sowohl die Beschreibung dieser Operatoren als auch der Beweis der Yang'schen Invarianz bei schwacher Kopplung wurden parallel zur Arbeit an der vorliegenden Dissertation vervollständigt. Wir diskutieren das Gegenstück zu diesem Ergebnis bei starker Kopplung. Dort wird die Wilson Schleife durch eine Minimalfläche beschrieben, welche im Superraum der Superstring-Theorie vom Typ IIB in AdS5 x S5 liegt. Der Vergleich der bei starken Kopplung etablierten Invarianz mit den entsprechenden Generatoren bei schwacher Kopplung zeigt, dass die Symmetrie-Generatoren einen lokalen Anteil enthalten, der auf nicht-triviale Weise vom Wert der Kopplungskonstanten abhängt. Zusätzlich finden wir sogenannte Bonus-Symmetrien. Diese sind die analogen Generatoren in den höheren Ordnungen zum Hyperladungs-Generator, der selbst keine Symmetrie darstellt. Wir zeigen, dass diese Symmetrien in allen höheren Ordnungen der Yang'schen Algebra vorliegen. / This thesis discusses hidden symmetries within N=4 supersymmetric Yang--Mills theory or its AdS/CFT dual, string theory in AdS5 x S5. Here, we focus on the Maldacena--Wilson loop, which is a suitable object for this study since its vacuum expectation value is finite for smooth contours and the conjectured duality to scattering amplitudes provides a conceptual path to transfer its symmetries to other observables. Its strong-coupling description via minimal surfaces in AdS5 allows to construct the symmetries from the integrability of the underlying classical string theory. This approach has been utilized before to derive a strong-coupling Yangian symmetry of the Maldacena--Wilson loop and describe equiareal deformations of minimal surfaces in AdS3. These two findings are connected and extended in the present thesis. In order to discuss the symmetries systematically, we first discuss the symmetry structure of the underlying string model. The discussion can be generalized to the discussion of generic symmetric space models. For these, we find that the symmetry which generates the equiareal deformations of minimal surfaces in AdS3 has a central role in the symmetry structure of the model: It acts as a raising operator on the infinite tower of conserved charges, thus generating the spectral parameter, and can be employed to construct all symmetry variations from the global symmetry of the model. It is thus referred to as the master symmetry of symmetric space models. Additionally, the algebra of the symmetry variations and the conserved charges is worked out. For the concrete case of minimal surfaces in AdS5, we discuss the deformation of the four-cusp solution, which provides the dual description of the four-gluon scattering amplitude. This marks the first step toward transferring the master symmetry to scattering amplitudes. Moreover, we compute the master and Yangian symmetry variations of generic, smooth boundary curves. The results leads to a coupling-dependent generalization of the master symmetry, which constitutes a symmetry of the Maldacena--Wilson loop at any value of the coupling constant. Our discussion clarifies why previous attempts to transfer the deformations of minimal surfaces in AdS3 to weak coupling were unsuccessful. We discuss several attempts to transfer the Yangian symmetry to weak or arbitrary coupling, but ultimately conclude that a Yangian symmetry of the Maldacena--Wilson loop seems not to be present. The situation changes when we consider Wilson loops in superspace, which are the natural supersymmetric generalizations of the Maldacena--Wilson loop. Substantial evidence for the Yangian invariance of their vacuum expectation value has been provided at weak coupling and the description of the operator as well as its weak-coupling Yangian invariance were subsequently established in parallel to the work on this thesis. We discuss the strong-coupling counterpart of this finding, where the Wilson loop in superspace is described by minimal surfaces in the superspace of type IIB superstring theory in AdS5 x S5. The comparison of the strong-coupling invariance derived here with the respective generators at weak coupling shows that the generators contain a local term, which depends on the coupling in a non-trivial way. Additionally, we find so-called bonus symmetry generators. These are the higher-level recurrences of the superconformal hypercharge generator, which does not provide a symmetry itself. We show that these symmetries are present in all higher levels of the Yangian.

Orientadores: Yuri Dimitrov Bozhkov, Antonio Carlos Gilli Martins / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-24T19:39:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Freire_IgorLeite_D.pdf: 977261 bytes, checksum: b8ba44493aeac3de0d37cdfff2fc581b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Neste trabalho provamos um teorema que faz a classificacão completa dos grupos de simetrias de Lie da equação semilinear de Kohn - Laplace no grupo de Heisenberg tridimensional. Uma vez que tal equação possui estrutura variacional, determinamos quais são suas simetrias de Noether e a partir delas estabelecemos suas respectivas leis de conservação / Abstract: In this work, we carry out a complete group classification of Lie point symmetries of semilinear Kohn - Laplace equations on the three-dimensional Heisenberg group. Since this equation has variational structure, we determine which of its symmetries are Noether's symmetries. Then we establish their respectives conservation laws / Doutorado / Matematica Aplicada / Doutor em Matemática Aplicada

Orientador: Samuel da Silva / Resumo: Os métodos envolvendo simetria têm grande importância para o estudo das equações diferenciais decorrentes de áreas como a matemática, física, engenharia entre muitas outras. A existência de simetrias em equações diferenciais pode gerar transformações em variáveis dependentes e independentes que podem facilitar a integração. Em especial, Sophus Lie desenvolveu no século XIX uma forma de extração de simetrias que podem ser usadas efetivamente para revelar as integrais primeiras, ou seja, as constantes de movimento, que muitas vezes podem estar escondidas. Estes invariantes podem em algumas situações ser identificados pelo teorema de Noether ou a partir de manipulações das próprias equações com transformações de Lie. Assim, nesta tese foi proposto utilizar as simetrias de Lie para aplicação em problemas da dinâmica de sistemas mecânicos. As simetrias de Lie são aplicadas em dois problemas clássicos, primeiro em um pêndulo oscilando em um aro rotativo e em seguida em um pião simétrico com movimento de precessão estacionária com um ponto fixo. No primeiro problema foi realizada uma redução de ordem para solução por quadraturas da equação de movimento. Já no segundo foram mostradas as relações entre os invariantes e as leis de conservação extraídas das simetrias de Lie. Uma outra análise foi realizada através da teoria de referencial móvel, mostrando a possibilidade de outras aplicações das simetrias de Lie. Uma das aplicações desta teoria, também é a redução de ordem das equações ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The methods involving symmetry are of great importance for the study of the di erential equations arising from areas such as mathematics, physics, engineering among many others. The existence of symmetries in di erential equations can generate transformations in dependent and independent variables that may be easier to integrate. In particular, Sophus Lie developed in the nineteenth century a form of extraction of symmetries that can be used e ectively to reveal the rst integrals, that is, the motion constants, which can often be hidden. These invariants can in some situations be identi ed by the Noether theorem or from manipulations of the equations themselves with Lie transformations. Thus, in this thesis it was proposed to use the Lie symmetries for application in problems of the dynamics of mechanical systems. The Lie symmetries are applied in two classic problems, rst in a bead on a rotating wire hoop and then in a symmetric top with stationary precession with a xed point. In the rst problem, a reduction of order of the equation of motion was performed by quadratures. In the second one, the relations between the invariants and the conservation laws extracted from the Lie symmetries were shown. Another analysis was performed through the theory of moving frames, showing the possibility of other applications of Lie symmetries. One of the applications of this theory is also the order reduction of the resulting di erential equations. Thus, moving frames were calculated for th... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor