The primary purpose of this study was to investigate experimentally the following questions: (1) What is the relative effectiveness of the vector approach and the traditional approach to teaching certain topics in plane analytic geometry to high school students in terms of achievement and understanding? (2) Does teaching these topics in plane analytic geometry via vectors produce more transfer to other topics in analytic geometry (mainly solid analytic geometry) than teaching these topics via the traditional approach? / Typescript. / "December, 1968." / "Submitted to the Department of Mathematics Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." / Advisor: E. D. Nichols, Professor Directing Dissertation. / Includes bibliographical references.

Wong, Chun Yin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-135). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

Let F be a local non-Archimedean field of characteristic zero. We prove a Plancherel formula for the symmetric space GL(2,F)\GL(2,E), where E/F is an unramified quadratic extension. Our method relies on intrinsic geometric and combinatorial properties of spherical varieties and constitutes the local counterpart of the global computation of the Flicker-Rallis period as a residue of periods against Eisenstein series. We also give a novel derivation of the Plancherel formula for the strongly tempered variety T\PGL(2) over F (with maximal split torus T) using a canonical smooth asymptotics morphism and a contour shifting method. In this rank one local setting, our proof is similar to Langlands' proof over global fields describing the spectrum of a reductive group in terms of residues of Eisenstein series. Finally, using both L2-decompositions, we develop a local relative trace formula and outline a comparison result in the setting of the unitary rank one Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture.

The construction introduced by Gross, Hacking and Keel in [28] allows one to construct a mirror family to (S, D) where S is a smooth rational projective surface and D a certain type of Weil divisor supporting an ample or anti-ample class. To do so one constructs a formal smoothing of a singular variety they call the n-vertex. By arguments of Gross, Hacking and Keel one knows that this construction can be lifted to an algebraic family if the intersection matrix for D is not negative semi-definite. In the case where the intersection matrix is negative definite the smoothing exists in a formal neighbourhood of a union of analytic strata. A proof of both of these is found in [GHK]. In our first project we use these ideas to find explicit formulae for the mirror families to low degree del Pezzo surfaces. In the second project we treat the remaining case of a negative semi-definite intersection matrix, corresponding to S being a rational elliptic surface and D a rational fibre. Using intuition from the first project we prove in the second project that in this case the formal family of their construction lifts to an analytic family.

Ng, Kwong Wing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-126). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Contents --- p.v / Introduction --- p.vii / Chapter 1 --- Preliminaries --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Basic Notations and Conventions --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Fundamental Results in Banach Space Theory and Variational Analysis --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Set-Valued Mappings --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Enlargements and Projections --- p.8 / Chapter 1.5 --- Subdifferentials --- p.11 / Chapter 1.6 --- Sets of Normals --- p.18 / Chapter 1.7 --- Coderivatives --- p.24 / Chapter 2 --- The Generalized Distance Function - Basic Estimates --- p.27 / Chapter 2.1 --- Elementary Properties of the Generalized Distance Function --- p.27 / Chapter 2.2 --- Frechet-Like Subdifferentials of the Generalized Distance Function --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3 --- Limiting and Singular Subdifferentials of the Generalized Distance - Function --- p.44 / Chapter 3 --- The Generalized Distance Function - Estimates via Intermediate Points --- p.73 / Chapter 3.1 --- Frechet-Like and Limiting Subdifferentials of the Generalized Dis- tance Function via Intermediate Points --- p.74 / Chapter 3.2 --- Frechet and Proximal Subdifferentials of the Generalized Distance Function via Intermediate Points --- p.90 / Chapter 4 --- The Marginal Function --- p.95 / Chapter 4.1 --- Singular Subdifferentials of the Marginal Function --- p.95 / Chapter 4.2 --- Singular Subdifferentials of the Generalized Marginal Function . . --- p.102 / Chapter 5 --- The Perturbed Distance Function --- p.107 / Chapter 5.1 --- Elementary Properties of the Perturbed Distance Function --- p.107 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Convex Case - Subdifferentials of the Perturbed Distance Function --- p.111 / Chapter 5.3 --- The Nonconvex Case - Frechet-Like and Proximal Subdifferentials of the Perturbed Distance Function --- p.113 / Bibliography --- p.123

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE. / Bibliography: leaf 80. / by Mark David Baker. / Ph.D.

A manifold is a Hausdorff topological space that is locally Euclidean. We will define the difference between a Riemannian manifold and a pseudo-Riemannian manifold. We will explore how geodesics behave on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds and what it means for manifolds to be geodesically complete. The Hopf-Rinow theorem states that,“Riemannian manifolds are geodesically complete if and only if it is complete as a metric space,” [Lee97] however, in pseudo-Riemannian geometry, there is no analogous theorem since in general a pseudo-Riemannian metric does not induce a metric space structure on the manifold. Our main focus will be on a family of manifolds referred to as a generalized plane wave manifolds. We will prove that all generalized plane wave manifolds are geodesically complete.

"Submitted September 2002 ... Amended September 2004." / Bibliography: p. 152-157. / xvi, 157 p. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Mathematical Sciences, Discipline of Pure Mathematics, 2004

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This thesis is devoted to subriemannian optimal transportation problems. In the first part of the thesis, we consider cost functions arising from very general optimal control costs. We prove the existence and uniqueness of an optimal map between two given measures under certain regularity and growth assumptions on the Lagrangian, absolute continuity of the measures with respect to the Lebesgue class, and, most importantly, the absence of sharp abnormal minimizers. In particular, this result is applicable in the case where the cost function is square of the subriemannian distance on a subriemannian manifold with a 2-generating distribution. This unifies and generalizes the corresponding Riemannian and subriemannian results of Brenier, McCann, Ambrosio-Rigot and Bernard-Buffoni. We also establish various properties of the optimal plan when abnormal minimizers are present. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the infinite-dimensional geometry of optimal transportation on a subriemannian manifold. We start by proving the following nonholonomic version of the classical Moser theorem: given a bracket-generating distribution on a connected compact manifold (possibly with boundary), two volume forms of equal total volume can be isotoped by the flow of a vector field tangent to this distribution. Next, we describe formal solutions of the corresponding subriemannian optimal transportation problem and present the Hamiltonian framework for both the Otto calculus and its subriemannian counterpart as infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian reductions on diffeomorphism groups. Finally, we define a subriemannian analog of the Wasserstein metric on the space of densities and prove that the subriemannian heat equation defines a gradient flow on the subriemannian Wasserstein space with the potential given by the Boltzmann relative entropy functional. Measure contraction property is one of the possible generalizations of Ricci curvature bound to more general metric measure spaces. In the third part of the thesis, we discuss when a three dimensional contact subriemannian manifold satisfies such property.