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We study the nonlinear Schrödinger type equation - Δu + (λg(x) + l)u = f(u) on the whole space R^N. The nonlinearity f is assumed to be asymptotically linear and g(x) ≥ 0 has a potential well. We do not assume a limit for g(x) as lxl →∞ . Using variational techniques, we prove the existence of a positive solution for λ large. In the case where f is odd we obtain multiple pairs of solutions. The limiting behavior of solutions as λ →∞ is also considered.

Nous considérons deux problèmes. Le premier est la construction des tests d’ajustement (goodness-of-fit) pour les modèles de processus de diffusion ergodique. Nous considérons d’abord le cas où le processus sous l’hypothèse nulle appartient à une famille paramétrique. Nous étudions les tests de type Cramer-von Mises et Kolmogorov- Smirnov. Le paramètre inconnu est estimé par l’estimateur de maximum de vraisemblance ou l’estimateur de distance minimale. Nous construisons alors les tests basés sur l’estimateur du temps local de la densité invariante, et sur la fonction de répartition empirique. Nous montrons alors que les statistiques de ces deux types de test convergent tous vers des limites qui ne dépendent pas du paramètre inconnu. Par conséquent, ces tests sont appelés asymptotically parameter free. Ensuite, nous considérons l’hypothèse simple. Nous étudions donc le test du khi-deux. Nous montrons que la limite de la statistique ne dépend pas de la dérive, ainsi on dit que le test est asymptotically distribution free. Par ailleurs, nous étudions également la puissance du test du khi-deux. En outre, ces tests sont consistants. Nous traitons ensuite le deuxième problème : l’approximation des équations différentielles stochastiques rétrogrades. Supposons que l’on observe un processus de diffusion satisfaisant à une équation différentielle stochastique, où la dérive dépend du paramètre inconnu. Nous estimons premièrement le paramètre inconnu et après nous construisons un couple de processus tel que la valeur finale de l’un est une fonction de la valeur finale du processus de diffusion donné. Par la suite, nous montrons que, lorsque le coefficient de diffusion est petit, le couple de processus se rapproche de la solution d’une équations différentielles stochastiques rétrograde. A la fin, nous prouvons que cette approximation est asymptotiquement efficace. / We consider two problems in this work. The first one is the goodness of fit test for the model of ergodic diffusion process. We consider firstly the case where the process under the null hypothesis belongs to a given parametric family. We study the Cramer-von Mises type and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov type tests in different cases. The unknown parameter is estimated via the maximum likelihood estimator or the minimum distance estimator, then we construct the tests in using the local time estimator for the invariant density function, or the empirical distribution function. We show that both the Cramer-von Mises type and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov type statistics converge to some limits which do not depend on the unknown parameter, thus the tests are asymptotically parameter free. The alternatives as usual are nonparametric and we show the consistency of all these tests. Then we study the chi-square test. The basic hypothesis is now simple The chi-square test is asymptotically distribution free. Moreover, we study also power function of the chi-square test to compare with the others. The other problem is the approximation of the forward-backward stochastic differential equations. Suppose that we observe a diffusion process satisfying some stochastic differential equation, where the trend coefficient depends on some unknown parameter. We try to construct a couple of processes such that the final value of one is a function of the final value of the given diffusion process. We show that when the diffusion coefficient is small, the couple of processes approximates well the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation. Moreover, we present that this approximation is asymptotically efficient.

This thesis is devoted to the detectability of an inhomogeneous region possibly embedded in a noisy environment. It presents models and algorithms using the theory of the longest significant run and percolation. We analyze the computational results based on simulation. We consider the length of the significant nodes in a chain with good continuation in a square lattice of independent nodes. Inspired by the percolation theory, we first analyze the problem in a tree based model. We give the critical probability and find the decay rate of the probability of having a significant run with length k starting at the origin. We find that the asymptotic rate of the length of the significant run can be powerfully applied in the area of image detection. Examples are detection of filamentary structures in a background of uniform random points and target tracking problems. We set the threshold for the rejection region in these problems so that the false positives diminish quickly as we have more samples. Inspired by the convex set detection, we also give a fast and near optimal algorithm to detect a possibly inhomogeneous chain with good continuation in an image of pixels with white noise. We analyze the length of the longest significant chain after thresholding each pixel and consider the statistics over all significant chains. Such a strategy significantly reduces the complexity of the algorithm. The false positives are eliminated as the number of pixels increases. This extends the existing detection method related to the detection of inhomogeneous line segment in the literature.

In this work, two particular orthogonal and conformal decompositions of the 3+1 dimensional Einstein equation and Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formalism for general relativity are obtained. In order to do these, the 3+1 foliation of the four-dimensional spacetime, the fundamental conformal transformations and the Hamiltonian form of general relativity that leads to the ADM formalism, de

The central objective of this work is to present an analysis of the asymptotic conformal Killing vectors in asymptotically-flat space-times of general relativity. This problem has been examined by two different methods; in Chapter 5 the asymptotic expansion technique originated by Newman and Unti [31] leads to a solution for asymptotically-flat spacetimes which admit an asymptotically shear-free congruence of null geodesics, and in Chapter 6 the conformal rescaling technique of Penrose [54] is used both to support the findings of the previous chapter and to set out a procedure for solution in the general case. It is pointed out that Penrose's conformal technique is preferable to the use of asymptotic expansion methods, since it can be established in a rigorous manner without leading to the possible convergence difficulties associated with asymptotic expansions. Since the asymptotic conformal symmetry groups of asymptotically flat space-times Are generalisations of the conformal group of Minkowski space-time we devote Chapters 3 and 4 to a study of the flat space case so that the results of later chapters may receive an interpretation in terms of familiar concepts. These chapters fulfil a second, equally important, role in establishing local isomorphisms between the Minkowski-space conformal group, 90(2,4) and SU(2,2). The SO(2,4) representation has been used by Kastrup [61] to give a physical interpretation using space-time gauge transformations. This appears as part of the survey of interpretative work in Chapter 7. The SU(2,2) representation of the conformal group has assumed a theoretical prominence in recent years. through the work of Penrose [9-11] on twistors. In Chapter 4 we establish contact with twistor ideas by showing that points in Minkowski space-time correspond to certain complex skew-symmetric rank two tensors on the SU(2,2) carrier space. These objects are, in Penrose's terminology [91, simple skew-symmetric twistors of valence [J. A particularly interesting aspect of conformal objects in space-time is explored in Chapter 8, where we extend the work of Geroch [16] on multipole moments of the Laplace equation in 3-space to the consideration. of Q tý =0 in Minkowski space-time. This development hinges upon the fact that multipole moment fields are also conformal Killing tensors. In the final chapter some elementary applications of the results of Chapters 3 and 5 are made to cosmological models which have conformal flatness or asymptotic conformal flatness. In the first class here we have 'models of the Robertson-Walker type and in the second class we have the asymptotically-Friedmann universes considered by Hawking [73].

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We study the loss of information (measured in terms of the Kullback- Leibler distance) caused by observing "grouped" data (observing only a discretized version of a continuous random variable). We analyse the asymptotical behaviour of the loss of information as the partition becomes finer. In the case of a univariate observation, we compute the optimal rate of convergence and characterize asymptotically optimal partitions (into intervals). In the multivariate case we derive the asymptotically optimal regular sequences of partitions. Forthermore, we compute the asymptotically optimal transformation of the data, when a sequence of partitions is given. Examples demonstrate the efficiency of the suggested discretizing strategy even for few intervals. (author's abstract) / Series: Forschungsberichte / Institut für Statistik

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In recent years, more and more efforts have been expended on the study of $n$-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes $(\mathcal{M},g)$ as solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations \begin{align*} \mathrm{Ric}(g)=\frac{2}{n-2}\Lambda\, g \end{align*} with negative cosmological constant $\Lambda$. This has been motivated mainly by the conjectured instability of these solutions. The author of this thesis joins these efforts with two contributions, which are themselves independent of each other. In the first part, we are concerned with a superradiant instability for $n=4$. For any cosmological constant $\Lambda=-3/\ell^2$ and any $\alpha < 9/4$, we find a Kerr-AdS spacetime $(\mathcal{M},g_{\mathrm{KAdS}})$, in which the Klein-Gordon equation \begin{align*} \Box_g\psi+\frac{\alpha}{\ell^2}\psi=0 \end{align*} has an exponentially growing mode solution satisfying a Dirichlet boundary condition at infinity. The spacetime violates the Hawking-Reall bound $r_+^2 > |a|\ell$. We obtain an analogous result for Neumann boundary conditions if $5/4 < \alpha < 9/4$. Moreover, in the Dirichlet case, one can prove that, for any Kerr-AdS spacetime violating the Hawking-Reall bound, there exists an open family of masses $\alpha$ such that the corresponding Klein-Gordon equation permits exponentially growing mode solutions. Our result provides the first rigorous construction of a superradiant instability for a negative cosmological constant. In the second part, we study perturbations of five-dimensional Eguchi-Hanson-AdS spacetimes exhibiting biaxial Bianchi IX symmetry. Within this symmetry class, the Einstein vacuum equations are equivalent to a system of non-linear partial differential equations for the radius $r$ of the spheres, the Hawking mass $m$ and $B$, a quantity measuring the squashing of the spheres, which satisfies a non-linear wave equation. First we prove that the system is well-posed as an initial-boundary value problem around infinity $\mathcal{I}$ with $B$ satisfying a Dirichlet boundary condition. Second, we show that initial data in the biaxial Bianchi IX symmetry class around Eguchi-Hanson-AdS spacetimes cannot form horizons in the dynamical evolution.