Neste trabalho, mostramos a existência e multiplicidade de soluções para a seguinte classe de equações elípticas quasilineares { - \'DELTA IND. \'NÜ\' POT. \'upsilon\' + \'|\'upsilon\'| POT. \'NÜ\' - 2 \'upsilon\' = f(x, u), \'upsilon\' \'DIFERENTE\' 0, \'upsilon\' \'PERTENCE A >>: Nu + jujN2 u = f(x; u); x 2 ; u 6= 0; u 2 W1;N( ); onde e um domnio em RN, N 2, N e o operador N-Laplaciano e f e uma func~ao que possui um crescimento crtico exponencial. Para obter nossos resultados utilizamos o Princpio Variacional de Ekeland, Teorema do Passo da Montanha, Categoria de Lusternik- Schnirelman, Ac~ao de Grupo e tecnicas baseadas na Teoria do G^enero. Palavras chaves: Problemas elpticos quasilineares, Metodo Variacional, N-Laplaciano, crescimento crtico exponencial, Princpio Variacional de Ekeland, Categoria de Lusternik- Schnirelman, Desigualdade de Trudinger-Moser / In this work, we show the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following class of quasilinear elliptic equations { - \'DELTA\' IND. \'NÜ\' \'upsilon\'\' + |\'upsilon\'| POT. \'NÜ\' - 2 = f(x, \'upsilon\'), x \"IT BELONGS\' \'OMEGA\', \'upsilon\' \'DIFFERENT\' 0, \'upsilon\' \'IT BELONGS\' W POT. 1, \'NÜ\' ( OMEGA), where \'OMEGA\' is a domain in \' R POT. \'NÜ\' > OR = 2, \'DELTA\' IND. \'NÜ\' is the N-Laplacian operator and f is a function with exponential critical growth. To obtain our results we utilize the Ekeland Variational Principle, the Mountain Pass Theorem, Lusternik-Schnirelman of Category, Group Action and techniques based on Genus Theory

We study the equilibrium solutions of an integrodifferential equation used to model one-dimensional biological swarms. We assume that the motion of the swarm is governed by pairwise interactions, or a convolution in the continuous setting, and derive a continuous model from conservation laws. The steady-state solution found for the model is compactly supported and is shown to be an attractive equilibrium solution via linear perturbation theory. Numerical simulations support that the steady-state solution is attractive for all initial swarm distributions. Some initial results for the model in higher dimensions are also presented.

This dissertation deals with customised image analysis tools in cancer research. In the field of biomedical sciences, mathematical imaging has become crucial in order to account for advancements in technical equipment and data storage by sound mathematical methods that can process and analyse imaging data in an automated way. This thesis contributes to the development of such mathematically sound imaging models in four ways: (i) automated cell segmentation and tracking. In cancer drug development, time-lapse light microscopy experiments are conducted for performance validation. The aim is to monitor behaviour of cells in cultures that have previously been treated with chemotherapy drugs, since atypical duration and outcome of mitosis, the process of cell division, can be an indicator of successfully working drugs. As an imaging modality we focus on phase contrast microscopy, hence avoiding phototoxicity and influence on cell behaviour. As a drawback, the common halo- and shade-off effect impede image analysis. We present a novel workflow uniting both automated mitotic cell detection with the Hough transform and subsequent cell tracking by a tailor-made level-set method in order to obtain statistics on length of mitosis and cell fates. The proposed image analysis pipeline is deployed in a MATLAB software package called MitosisAnalyser. For the detection of mitotic cells we use the circular Hough transform. This concept is investigated further in the framework of image regularisation in the general context of imaging inverse problems, in which circular objects should be enhanced, (ii) exploiting sparsity of first-order derivatives in combination with the linear circular Hough transform operation. Furthermore, (iii) we present a new unified higher-order derivative-type regularisation functional enforcing sparsity of a vector field related to an image to be reconstructed using curl, divergence and shear operators. The model is able to interpolate between well-known regularisers such as total generalised variation and infimal convolution total variation. Finally, (iv) we demonstrate how we can learn sparsity promoting parametrised regularisers via quotient minimisation, which can be motivated by generalised Eigenproblems. Learning approaches have recently become very popular in the field of inverse problems. However, the majority aims at fitting models to favourable training data, whereas we incorporate knowledge about both fit and misfit data. We present results resembling behaviour of well-established derivative-based sparse regularisers, introduce novel families of non-derivative-based regularisers and extend this framework to classification problems.

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Neste trabalho, mostramos a existência e multiplicidade de soluções para a seguinte classe de equações elípticas quasilineares { - \'DELTA IND. \'NÜ\' POT. \'upsilon\' + \'|\'upsilon\'| POT. \'NÜ\' - 2 \'upsilon\' = f(x, u), \'upsilon\' \'DIFERENTE\' 0, \'upsilon\' \'PERTENCE A >>: Nu + jujN2 u = f(x; u); x 2 ; u 6= 0; u 2 W1;N( ); onde e um domnio em RN, N 2, N e o operador N-Laplaciano e f e uma func~ao que possui um crescimento crtico exponencial. Para obter nossos resultados utilizamos o Princpio Variacional de Ekeland, Teorema do Passo da Montanha, Categoria de Lusternik- Schnirelman, Ac~ao de Grupo e tecnicas baseadas na Teoria do G^enero. Palavras chaves: Problemas elpticos quasilineares, Metodo Variacional, N-Laplaciano, crescimento crtico exponencial, Princpio Variacional de Ekeland, Categoria de Lusternik- Schnirelman, Desigualdade de Trudinger-Moser / In this work, we show the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following class of quasilinear elliptic equations { - \'DELTA\' IND. \'NÜ\' \'upsilon\'\' + |\'upsilon\'| POT. \'NÜ\' - 2 = f(x, \'upsilon\'), x \"IT BELONGS\' \'OMEGA\', \'upsilon\' \'DIFFERENT\' 0, \'upsilon\' \'IT BELONGS\' W POT. 1, \'NÜ\' ( OMEGA), where \'OMEGA\' is a domain in \' R POT. \'NÜ\' > OR = 2, \'DELTA\' IND. \'NÜ\' is the N-Laplacian operator and f is a function with exponential critical growth. To obtain our results we utilize the Ekeland Variational Principle, the Mountain Pass Theorem, Lusternik-Schnirelman of Category, Group Action and techniques based on Genus Theory

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The nonlinear Schrödinger equation appears in different fields of physics, for example in the theory of Bose-Einstein condensates or in wave propagation models. From a mathematical point of view, the study of this equation is interesting and delicate, notably because it can have a very rich set of solutions with various behaviours.<p><p>In this thesis, we have been interested in standing waves, which satisfy an elliptic partial differential equation. When this equation is seen as a singularly perturbed problem, its solutions concentrate, in the sense that they converge uniformly to zero outside some concentration set, while they remain positive on this set.<p><p>We have obtained three kind of new results. Firstly, under symmetry assumptions, we have found solutions concentrating on a sphere. Secondly, we have obtained the same type of solutions for the Schrödinger-Poisson system. The method consists in applying the mountain pass theorem to a penalized problem. Thirdly, we have proved the existence of solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation concentrating at a local maximum of the potential. These solutions are found by a more general minimax principle. Our results are characterized by very weak assumptions on the potential./<p><p>L'équation de Schrödinger non-linéaire apparaît dans différents domaines de la physique, par exemple dans la théorie des condensats de Bose-Einstein ou dans des modèles de propagation d'ondes. D'un point de vue mathématique, l'étude de cette équation est intéressante et délicate, notamment parce qu'elle peut posséder un ensemble très riche de solutions avec des comportements variés. <p><p>Dans cette thèse ,nous nous sommes intéressés aux ondes stationnaires, qui satisfont une équation aux dérivées partielles elliptique. Lorsque cette équation est vue comme un problème de perturbations singulières, ses solutions se concentrent, dans le sens où elles tendent uniformément vers zéro en dehors d'un certain ensemble de concentration, tout en restant positives sur cet ensemble. <p><p>Nous avons obtenu trois types de résultats nouveaux. Premièrement, sous des hypothèses de symétrie, nous avons trouvé des solutions qui se concentrent sur une sphère. Deuxièmement, nous avons obtenu le même type de solutions pour le système de Schrödinger-Poisson. La méthode consiste à appliquer le théorème du col à un problème pénalisé. Troisièmement, nous avons démontré l'existence de solutions de l'équation de Schrödinger non-linéaire qui se concentrent en un maximum local du potentiel. Ces solutions sont obtenues par un principe de minimax plus général. Nos résultats se caractérisent par des hypothèses très faibles sur le potentiel. / Doctorat en sciences, Spécialisation mathématiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished