This thesis is devoted to the study of foliations that come from dynamical systems. In the first part we study foliations of Stein manifolds locally given by vector fields. The leaves of such foliations are Riemann surfaces. We prove that for a generic foliation all leaves except for not more than a countable number are homeomorphic to disks, the rest are homeomorphic to cylinders. We also prove that a generic foliation is complex Kupka-Smale. In the second part of the thesis we study complex H\'non maps. The sets of points $U^+$ and $U^-$ that have unbounded forward and backwards orbits correspondingly, is naturally endowed with holomorphic foliations $^+$ and $^-$. We describe the critical locus -- the set of tangencies between these foliations -- for H\'{e}non maps that are small perturbations of quadratic polynomials with disconnected Julia set.

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra is a useful tool in determining the number of zeros of complex-valued polynomials and rational functions. It does not, however, apply to complex-valued harmonic polynomials and rational functions generally. In this thesis, we determine behaviors of the family of complex-valued harmonic functions $f_{c}(z) = z^{n} + \frac{c}{\overline{z}^{k}} - 1$ that defy intuition for analytic polynomials. We first determine the sum of the orders of zeros by using the harmonic analogue of Rouch\'e's Theorem. We then determine useful geometry of the critical curve and its image in order to count winding numbers by applying the harmonic analogue of the Argument Principle. Combining these results, we fully determine the number of zeros of $f_{c}$ for $c > 0$.

Community noise impact is an important factor in design of current generation aircraft, especially when considering projected trends in flight volume and urbanization. Simulation is a useful tool to evaluate the human annoyance response due to both current and proposed aircraft, and it has some advantages over field studies or playback of recordings. However, current simulation methods which are based on time-averaged prediction methods do not include short term fluctuations observed in recordings of real aircraft engines. Those fluctuations in both tonal and broadband sources provide psychoacoustic clues to listeners when evaluating flyover noise realism. When those short-term fluctuations are not included, simulation realism may suffer and evaluation results might not be applicable to real aircraft. This thesis presents work to analyze and model fluctuations in aircraft engine fan noise, using an existing set of static turbofan engine recordings. The inclusion of the observed fluctuations, which are unaccounted for in many current prediction and simulation routines, was expected to increase the perceived realism of simulated flyover events. The analysis of tonal fluctuations was performed by utilizing the complex-valued analytic signal to extract instantaneous amplitude and frequency. A simple parametric model was developed to represent each measured fluctuation using its spectral bandwidth and variance. The model was then used to generate new fluctuations which were perceptually similar to the original. Tonal synthesis was performed as the sum of many amplitude- and frequency-modulated tones. Analysis was also performed on the broadband fan noise component, which used output from the Short-Time Fourier Transform was used to characterize fluctuations in third-octave band SPL. Those fluctuations were not modeled as in the case of tonal fluctuations and were directly reproduced using an overlap-add synthesis tool. A subjective listening test was then conducted to evaluate the perceptual similarity between synthesized and recorded fan noise. That test concluded that synthesized tonal noise which included short-term fluctuations was perceived as more realistic than noise without. It also concluded that the addition of broadband fan noise components tended to mask tonal fluctuations. / Master of Science

Brilleslyper et al. analyzed a one-parameter family of harmonic trinomials, and Brooks and Lee analyzed a one-parameter family of harmonic functions with poles. Each family was explored to find the relationship between the size of the parameter and the number of zeros of the harmonic function. In this thesis, we examine convex combinations of members of these families. We determine conditions under which the critical curves separating the sense-preserving and sense-reversing regions are circular. We show that the number of zeros of a convex combination can be greater than the maximum number of zeros of either part.

For a power series which converges in some neighborhood of the origin in the complex plane, the zeros of its partial sums often behave in a controlled manner. We give an overview of some of the major results in the study of this phenomenon in the past century, focusing on recent developments which build on the theme of asymptotic analysis. Inspired by this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of the zeros of partial sums of power series for entire functions defined by exponential integrals of a certain type. Most of the zeros of the n'th partial sum travel outwards from the origin at a rate comparable to n, so we rescale the variable by n and explicitly calculate the limit curves of these normalized zeros. We discover that the zeros' asymptotic behavior depends on the order of the critical points of the integrand in the aforementioned exponential integral. / 62+x pages, 24 figures

The purpose of this thesis is to formulate and proof some theorems about convergences of Fourier series. In essence, we shall formulate and proof Wiener's lemma and Wiener-Lévy theorem which give us weaker conditions for absolute convergence of Fourier series. This thesis follows the classical Fourier analysis approach in a straightforward and detailed way suitable for undergraduate science students.

The Riemann Mapping Theorem is presented and proven in this essay. The theorem, first published 1851, is essential for the study of holomorphic functions on simply connected, proper subsets of C. / Uppsatsen presenterar och formulerar Riemanns avbildningssats. Satsen från 1851 är ett essentiellt resultat för studiet av holomorfa funktioner på enkelt sammanhängande, äkta delmängder av C.

Nesta dissertação desenvolvemos o Cálculo Estocástico para provar teoremas clássicos de Análise Complexa, em particular, o pequeno teorema de Picard. / In this dissertation we develop the Stochastic Calculus for to prove classical theorems in Complex Analysis, in particular, the little Picard\'s theorem.

Nesta dissertação desenvolvemos o Cálculo Estocástico para provar teoremas clássicos de Análise Complexa, em particular, o pequeno teorema de Picard. / In this dissertation we develop the Stochastic Calculus for to prove classical theorems in Complex Analysis, in particular, the little Picard\'s theorem.

Nous étudions les relations entre des propriétés géométriques et des propriétés métriques dans les domaines de C^n.Plus précisément, nous nous intéressons au comportement des courbures bisectionnelles holomorphes de métriques de Kähler invariantes, la métrique de Bergman et la métrique de Kähler-Einstein, au voisinage du bord des domaines pseudoconvexe bornés à bord lisse.Nous prouvons qu'aux points de stricte pseudoconvexité ou tels que la fonction squeezing du domaine tend vers 1 les courbures bisectionnelles holomorphes de la métrique de Kähler-Einstein du domaine tendent vers les courbures bisectionnelles holomorphes de la métrique de Kähler-Einstein de la boule.Nous étudions également les courbures de la métrique de Kähler-Einstein et de la métrique de Bergman dans certains domaines polynomiaux (notamment les domaines tubes et les domaines de Thullen de C^2) qui servent de modèles locaux aux points du bord qui sont de type fini. A partir de ces études nous prouvons qu'en certains points du bord de domaines convexes bornés lisse de type fini dans C^2 il existe un voisinage non tangentiel tel que les courbures bisectionnelles holomorphes de la métrique de Kâhler-Einstein sont pincées négativement. Nous prouvons également que pour tout domaine pseudoconvexe borné de type fini qui est Reinhardt complet il existe un voisinage du bord relatif au domaine tel que les courbures bisectionnelles holomorphes de la métrique de Bergman sont comprises entre deux constantes strictement négatives. / We study the relationships between geometric properties and metric properties of domains in C^n.More precisely, we are interested in the behavior of holomorphic bisectional curvatures of invariant Kähler metrics, namely the Bergman metric and the Kähler-Einstein metric, near the boundary of bounded pseudoconvex domains with smooth boundary.We prove that at boundary points that are either strictly pseudoconvex or such that the squeezing function of the domain tends to one the holomorphic bisectional curvatures of the Kähler-Einstein metric of the domain tends to the holomorphic bisectional curvatures of the Kähler-Einstein metric of the ball.We also study the holomorphic bisectional curvatures of the Kähler-Einstein metric and of the Bergman metric in some polynomial domains (namely tube and Thullen domains in C^2) which serve as local models at boundary point of finite type. Using these studies we prove that at certain boundary points of smoothly bounded convex domains of finite type there exists a non tangential neighbourhood such the holomorphic bisectional curvatures of the Kähler-Einstein metric are pinched between two negative constants. We also prove that for every smoothly bounded pseudoconvex complete Reinhardt domain of finite type inf C^2 there exists a neighbourhood of the boundary relative to the domain in which the holomorphic bisectional curvatures of the Bergman metric are pinched between two negative constants.