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The dissertation focuses on the initial boundary value problems (IBVPs) of a class of nonlinear Schrodinger equations posed on a half plane R x R+ and on a strip domain R x [0,L] with Dirichlet nonhomogeneous boundary data in a two-dimensional plane. Compared with pure initial value problems (IVPs), IBVPs over part of entire space with boundaries are more applicable to the reality and can provide more accurate data to physical experiments or practical problems. Although there is less research that has been made for IBVPs than that for IVPs, more attention has been paid for IBVPs recently. In particular, this thesis studies the local well-posedness of the equation for the appropriate initial and boundary data in Sobolev spaces H^s with non-negative s and investigates the global well-posedness in the H^1-space. The main strategy, especially for the local well-posedness, is to derive an equivalent integral equation (whose solution is called mild solution) from the original equation by semi-group theory and then perform the Banach fixed-point argument. However, along the process, it is essential to select proper auxiliary function spaces and prepare all the corresponding norm estimates to complete the argument. In fact, the IBVP posed on R x R+ and the one posed on R x [0,L] are two independent problems because the techniques adopted are different. The first problem is more related to the initial value problem (IVP) posed on the whole plane R^2 and the major ingredients are Strichartz's estimate and its generalized theory. On the other hand, the second problem can be studied as an IVP over a half-line and periodic domain, which is established on the analysis for series inspired by Bourgain's work. Moreover, the corresponding smoothing properties and regularity conditions of the solution are also considered. / Ph. D.

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First, we provide new classes of initial data, that grant short time uniqueness of the associated weak Leray-Hopf solutions of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. The main novelty here is the establishment of certain continuity properties near the initial time, for weak Leray-Hopf solutions with initial data in supercritical Besov spaces. The techniques used here build upon related ideas of Calderón. Secondly, we prove local regularity up to the at part of the boundary, for certain classes of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, provided that the velocity field belongs to L_∞(-1; 0; L^{3, β}(B(1) ⋂ ℝ³ ₊)) with 3 ≤ β < ∞. What enables us to build upon the work of Escauriaza, Seregin and Šverák [27] and Seregin [100] is the establishment of new scale-invariant estimates, new estimates for the pressure near the boundary and a convenient new ϵ-regularity criterion. Third, we show that if a weak Leray-Hopf solution in ℝ³ ₊×]0,∞[ has a finite blow-up time T, then necessarily lim_t↑T||v(·, t)||_{L^3,β(ℝ³ ₊)} = ∞ with 3 < β < ∞. The proof hinges on a rescaling procedure from Seregin's work [106], a new stability result for singular points on the boundary, suitable a priori estimates and a Liouville type theorem for parabolic operators developed by Escauriaza, Seregin and Šverák [27]. Finally, we investigate a notion of global-in-time solutions to the Navier- Stokes equations in ℝ³, with solenoidal initial data in the critical Besov space ?^-1/4_4,∞(ℝ³), which has certain continuity properties with respect to weak* convergence of the initial data. Such properties are motivated by the strategy used by Seregin [106] to show that if a weak Leray-Hopf solution in ℝ³×]0,∞[ has a finite blow-up time T, then necessarily lim_t↑T ||v(·, t)||_{L₃(ℝ³)} = ∞. We prove new decomposition results for Besov spaces, which are key in the conception and existence theory of such solutions.

This dissertation explores a method of music analysis that is designed to reflect the phenomenology of the listening experience, specifically in regards to harmony. It is primarily inspired by the theoretical approaches of the music theorist Moritz Hauptmann and by the writings of philosopher Edmund Husserl.

Bruning considered sets of isospectral Schrodinger operators with smooth real potentials on a compact manifold of dimension three. He showed the set of potentials associated to an isospectral set is compact in the topology of smooth functions by relating the spectrum to the trace of the heat semi-group. Similarly, we can consider the resonances of Schrodinger operators with real valued potentials on Euclidean space of whose support lies inside a ball of fixed radius that generate the same resonances as some fixed Schrodinger operator, an ``isoresonant" set of potentials. This isoresonant set of potentials is also compact in the topology of smooth functions for dimensions one and three. The basis of the result stems from the relation of a regularized wave trace to the resonances via the Poisson formula (also known as the Melrose trace formula). The second link is the small-t asymptotic expansion of the regularized wave trace whose coefficients are integrals of the potential function and its derivatives. For an isoresonant set these coefficients are equal due to the Poisson formula. The equivalence of coefficients allows us to uniformly bound the potential functions and their derivatives with respect to the isoresonant set. Finally, taking a sequence of functions in the isoresonant set we use the uniform bounds to construct a convergent subsequence using the Arzela-Ascoli theorem.

In this thesis, we investigate the pathwise regularity of partial sum process of general orthogonal series, and prove that the partial sum process is a geometric 2-rough process under the same condition as in Menshov-Rademacher Theorem. For Fourier series, the condition can be improved, and an equivalent condition on the limit function is identified.

This study of classical and modern harmonic analysis extends the classical Wiener's approximation theorem to locally compact abelian groups. The first chapter deals with harmonic analysis on the n-dimensional Euclidean space. Included in this chapter are some properties of functions in L1(Rn) and T1(Rn), the Wiener-Levy theorem, and Wiener's approximation theorem. The second chapter introduces the notion of standard function algebra, cospectrum, and Wiener algebra. An abstract form of Wiener's approximation theorem and its generalization is obtained. The third chapter introduces the dual group of a locally compact abelian group, defines the Fourier transform of functions in L1(G), and establishes several properties of functions in L1(G) and T1(G). Wiener's approximation theorem and its generalization for L1(G) is established.

We study families of small sets which appear in Harmonic analysis. We focus on the systems H(N) , N ∈ N, U and U0. In particular we compare their sizes via comparing the polars of these classes, i.e. the families of measures annihilating all sets from given class. Lyons showed that in this sense, the family N∈N H(N) is smaller than U0. The main goal of this thesis is the study of the question whether this also holds when the system U0 is replaced by the much smaller system U. To this end we define a new system H(∞) and systems of sets of type N where N ∈ N∪{∞}. We then prove some of their properties, which might be useful in solving the studied question. 1

Thesis. 1977. Elec.E.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographical references. / Elec.E.