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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Existence, Continuity, and Computability of Unique Fixed Points in Analog Network Models

James, Nick D. 10 1900 (has links)
<p>The thesis consists of three research projects concerning mathematical models for analog computers, originally developed by John Tucker and Jeff Zucker. The models are capable of representing systems that essentially “diverge,” exhibiting no valid behaviour---much the way that digital computers are capable of running programs that never halt. While there is no solution to the general Halting Problem, there are certainly theorems that identify large collections of instances that are guaranteed to halt. For example, if we use a simplified language featuring only assignment, branching, algebraic operations, and loops whose bounds must be fixed in advance (i.e. at “compile time”), we know that all instances expressible in this language will halt.</p> <p>In this spirit, one of the major objectives of all three thesis projects is identify a large class of instances of analog computation (analog computer + input) that are guaranteed to “converge.” In our semantic models, this convergence is assured if a certain operator (representing the computer and its input) has a unique fixed point. The first project is based on an original fixed point construction, while the second and third projects are based on Tucker and Zucker's construction. The second project narrows the scope of the model to a special case in order to concretely identify a class of operators with well-behaved fixed points, and considers some applications. The third project goes the opposite way: widening the scope of the model in order to generalize it.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Certain problems concerning polynomials and transcendental entire functions of exponential type

Hachani, Mohamed Amine 06 1900 (has links)
Soit P(z):=\sum_{\nu=0}^na_\nu z^{\nu}$ un polynôme de degré n et M:=\sup_{|z|=1}|P(z)|.$ Sans aucne restriction suplémentaire, on sait que $|P'(z)|\leq Mn$ pour $|z|\leq 1$ (inégalité de Bernstein). Si nous supposons maintenant que les zéros du polynôme $P$ sont à l'extérieur du cercle $|z|=k,$ quelle amélioration peut-on apporter à l'inégalité de Bernstein? Il est déjà connu [{\bf \ref{Mal1}}] que dans le cas où $k\geq 1$ on a $$(*) \qquad |P'(z)|\leq \frac{n}{1+k}M \qquad (|z|\leq 1),$$ qu'en est-il pour le cas où $k < 1$? Quelle est l'inégalité analogue à $(*)$ pour une fonction entière de type exponentiel $\tau ?$ D'autre part, si on suppose que $P$ a tous ses zéros dans $|z|\geq k \, \, (k\geq 1),$ quelle est l'estimation de $|P'(z)|$ sur le cercle unité, en terme des quatre premiers termes de son développement en série entière autour de l'origine. Cette thèse constitue une contribution à la théorie analytique des polynômes à la lumière de ces questions. / Let P(z):=\sum_{\nu=0}^na_\nu z^{\nu}$ a polynomial of degree n and M:=\sup_{|z|=1}|P(z)|$. Without any additional restriction, we know that $|P '(z) | \leq Mn$ for $| z | \leq 1$ (Bernstein's inequality). Now if we assume that the zeros of the polynomial $P$ are outside the circle $| z | = k$, which improvement could be made to the Bernstein inequality? It is already known [{\bf \ref{Mal1}}] that in the case where $k \geq 1$, one has$$ (*) \qquad | P '(z) | \leq \frac{n}{1 + k} M \qquad (| z | \leq 1),$$ what would it be in the case where $k < 1$? What is the analogous inequality for an entire function of exponential type $\tau$? On the other hand, if we assume that $P$ has all its zeros in $| z | \geq k \, \, (k \geq 1),$ which is the estimate of $| P '(z) |$ on the unit circle, in terms of the first four terms of its Maclaurin series expansion. This thesis comprises a contribution to the analytic theory of polynomials in the light of these problems.
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Analyse hautes fréquences pour les équations des ondes de surface / High frequency analysis for water waves systems

Nguyen, Quang Huy 05 July 2016 (has links)
Cette thèse est consacrée à l'analyse mathématique de l'équation d'Euler incompressible à surface libre. On se concentre sur la propriété dispersive et sur la théorie de Cauchy à faible régularité. Une grande part de la thèse est consacrée à l'étude de l'équation des ondes de gravité-capillarité. On établit des critères d'explosion et la persistance de régularité dans les espaces de Sobolev. En démontrant les estimations de Strichartz pour les solutions à faible régularité, on obtient des théories de Cauchy pour les données initiales dont la vitesse peut être non-lipschitzienne. Dans une autre part de la thèse, on étudie la propriété dispersive des équations des ondes de surface. Plus précisément, on s'intéresse aux estimations de Strichartz. On démontre que, pour les solutions raisonnablement régulières, les équations des ondes de surface non linéaires obéissent aux mêmes estimations de Strichartz comme dans le cas des équations linéarisées. / This dissertation is devoted to the mathematical analysis of the water waves systems. We focus on the dispersive property and the Cauchy problem for rough initial data. One of the main objects of study is the gravity-capillary water waves system. We establish blow-up criteria and the persistence of Sobolev regularity. By proving Strichartz estimates for rough solutions, we obtain Cauchy theories for non-Lipschitz initial velocity. In another part of the dissertation, we study the dispersive property of the fully nonlinear water waves systems. More specifically, we are interested in Strichartz estimates. We prove for sufficiently smooth solutions that the nonlinear systems obey the same Strichartz estimates as their linearizations do.

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