O principal objetivo desta dissertacão é estudar a produtividade da compacidade enumerável em grupos topológicos. Vários contra-exemplos foram descritos. / The main aim of this thesis is to study the productivity of coutable compactness in topological groups. Several counterexamples were described.

This thesis is mainly concerned with problems in the areas of the Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The properties of the functional to minimize with respect to the given topology play an important role in the existence of minimizers of integral problems. We will introduce the important concepts of quasiconvexity and polyconvexity. Inspired by finite element methods from Numerical Analysis, we introduce a perturbed problem which has some surprising uniqueness properties.

abstract: Nonlinear dispersive equations model nonlinear waves in a wide range of physical and mathematics contexts. They reinforce or dissipate effects of linear dispersion and nonlinear interactions, and thus, may be of a focusing or defocusing nature. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation or NLS is an example of such equations. It appears as a model in hydrodynamics, nonlinear optics, quantum condensates, heat pulses in solids and various other nonlinear instability phenomena. In mathematics, one of the interests is to look at the wave interaction: waves propagation with different speeds and/or different directions produces either small perturbations comparable with linear behavior, or creates solitary waves, or even leads to singular solutions. This dissertation studies the global behavior of finite energy solutions to the $d$-dimensional focusing NLS equation, $i partial _t u+Delta u+ |u|^{p-1}u=0, $ with initial data $u_0in H^1,; x in Rn$; the nonlinearity power $p$ and the dimension $d$ are chosen so that the scaling index $s=frac{d}{2}-frac{2}{p-1}$ is between 0 and 1, thus, the NLS is mass-supercritical $(s>0)$ and energy-subcritical $(s<1).$ For solutions with $ME[u_0]<1$ ($ME[u_0]$ stands for an invariant and conserved quantity in terms of the mass and energy of $u_0$), a sharp threshold for scattering and blowup is given. Namely, if the renormalized gradient $g_u$ of a solution $u$ to NLS is initially less than 1, i.e., $g_u(0)<1,$ then the solution exists globally in time and scatters in $H^1$ (approaches some linear Schr"odinger evolution as $ttopminfty$); if the renormalized gradient $g_u(0)>1,$ then the solution exhibits a blowup behavior, that is, either a finite time blowup occurs, or there is a divergence of $H^1$ norm in infinite time. This work generalizes the results for the 3d cubic NLS obtained in a series of papers by Holmer-Roudenko and Duyckaerts-Holmer-Roudenko with the key ingredients, the concentration compactness and localized variance, developed in the context of the energy-critical NLS and Nonlinear Wave equations by Kenig and Merle. One of the difficulties is fractional powers of nonlinearities which are overcome by considering Besov-Strichartz estimates and various fractional differentiation rules. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Mathematics 2011

O principal objetivo desta dissertacão é estudar a produtividade da compacidade enumerável em grupos topológicos. Vários contra-exemplos foram descritos. / The main aim of this thesis is to study the productivity of coutable compactness in topological groups. Several counterexamples were described.

<div>This thesis mainly focuses on the PDE theories that arise from the study of hydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystals. </div><div><br></div><div>In Chapter 1, we give a brief introduction of the Ericksen--Leslie director theory and Beris--Edwards <i>Q</i>-tensor theory to the PDE modeling of dynamic continuum description of nematic liquid crystals. In the isothermal case, we derive the simplified Ericksen--Leslie equations with general targets via the energy variation approach. Following this, we introduce a simplified, non-isothermal Ericksen--Leslie system and justify its thermodynamic consistency. </div><div><br></div><div>In Chapter 2, we study the weak compactness property of solutions to the Ginzburg--Landau approximation of the simplified Ericksen--Leslie system. In 2-D, we apply the Pohozaev type argument to show a kind of concentration cancellation occurs in the weak sequence of Ginzburg--Landau system. Furthermore, we establish the same compactness for non-isothermal equations with approximated director fields staying on the upper semi-sphere in 3-D. These compactness results imply the global existence of weak solutions to the limit equations as the small parameter tends to zero. </div><div><br></div><div>In Chapter 3, we establish the global existence of a suitable weak solution to the co-rotational Beris–Edwards system for both the Landau–De Gennes and Ball–Majumdar bulk potentials in 3-D, and then study its partial regularity by proving that the 1-D parabolic Hausdorff measure of the singular set is 0.</div><div><br></div><div>In Chapter 4, motivated by the study of un-corotational Beris--Edwards system, we construct a suitable weak solution to the full Ericksen--Leslie system with Ginzburg--Landau potential in 3-D, and we show it enjoys a (slightly weaker) partial regularity, which asserts that it is smooth away from a closed set of parabolic Hausdorff dimension at most 15/7.</div>

This study of the Euclidean N-space looks at some definitions and their characteristics, some comparisons, boundedness and compactness, and transformations and mappings.

Sequences are sufficient to describe topological properties in metric spaces or, more generally, topological spaces having a countable base for the topology. However, filters or nets are needed in more abstract spaces. Nets are more natural extension of sequences but are generally less friendly to work with since quite often two nets have distinct directed sets for domains. Operations involving filters are set theoretic and generally certain to filters on the same set. The concept of a filter was introduced by H. Cartan in 1937 and an excellent treatment of the subject can be found in N. Bourbaki (1940).

Breeding compact cotton plants is desirable for many reasons, but current research for this is restricted by manual data collection. Using unmanned aircraft system imagery shows potential for high-throughput automation of this process. Using multispectral orthomosaics and ground truth measurements, I developed supervised models with a wide range of hyperparameters to predict three compactness traits. Extreme gradient boosting using a feature matrix as input was able to predict the height-related metric with R2=0.829 and RMSE=0.331. The breadth metrics require higher-detailed data and more complex models to predict accurately.

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Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der mathematischen Modellierung semi-klassischer Licht-Materie-Interaktion. Im semiklassischen Bild wird Materie durch eine Dichtematrix "rho" beschrieben. Das Konzept der Dichtematrizen ist quantenmechanischer Natur. Auf der anderen Seite wird Licht durch ein klassisches elektromagnetisches Feld "(E,H)" beschrieben. Wir stellen einen mathematischen Rahmen vor, in dem wir systematisch dissipative Effekte in die Liouville-von-Neumann-Gleichung inkludieren. Bei unserem Ansatz sticht ins Auge, dass Lösungen der resultierenden Gleichung eine intrinsische Liapunov-Funktion besitzen. Anschließend koppeln wir die resultierende Gleichung mit den Maxwell-Gleichungen und erhalten ein neues selbstkonsistentes, dissipatives Modell vom Maxwell-Bloch-Typ. Der Fokus dieser Arbeit liegt auf der intensiven mathematischen Studie des dissipativen Modells vom Maxwell-Bloch-Typ. Da das Modell Lipschitz-Stetigkeit vermissen lassen, kreieren wir eine regularisierte Version des Modells, das Lipschitz-stetig ist. Wir beschränken unsere Analyse im Wesentlichen auf die Lipschitz-stetige Regularisierung. Für regularisierte Versionen des dissipativen Modells zeigen wir die Existenz von Lösungen des zugehörigen Anfangswertproblems. Der Kern des Existenzbeweises besteht aus einem Resultat von ``compensated compactness'''', das von P. Gérard bewiesen wurde, sowie aus einem Lemma vom Rellich-Typ. In Teilen folgt dieser Beweis dem Vorgehen einer älteren Arbeit von J.-L. Joly, G. Métivier und J. Rauch. / This thesis deals with the mathematical modeling of semi-classical matter-light interaction. In the semi-classical picture, matter is described by a density matrix "rho", a quantum mechanical concept. Light on the other hand, is described by a classical electromagnetic field "(E,H)". We give a short overview of the physical background, introduce the usual coupling mechanism and derive the classical Maxwell-Bloch equations which have intensively been studied in the literature. Moreover, We introduce a mathematical framework in which we state a systematic approach to include dissipative effects in the Liouville-von-Neumann equation. The striking advantage of our approach is the intrinsic existence of a Liapunov function for solutions to the resulting evolution equation. Next, we couple the resulting equation to the Maxwell equations and arrive at a new self-consistent dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type model for semi-classical matter-light interaction. The main focus of this work lies on the intensive mathematical study of the dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type model. Since our model lacks Lipschitz continuity, we create a regularized version of the model that is Lipschitz continuous. We mostly restrict our analysis to the Lipschitz continuous regularization. For regularized versions of the dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type model, we prove existence of solutions to the corresponding Cauchy problem. The core of the proof is based on results from compensated compactness due to P. Gérard and a Rellich type lemma. In parts, this proof closely follows the lines of an earlier work due to J.-L. Joly, G. Métivier and J. Rauch.