En 1970, S. Kobayashi a posé le problème de savoir si les hypersurfaces génériques de grand degré de l'espace projectif complexe et leurs complémentaires étaient hyperboliques. Dans la première partie de cette thèse nous montrons l'hyperbolicité des complémentaires de courbes génériques à deux composantes de degrés suffisamment grands dans le plan. Dans une seconde partie, nous faisons l'étude des jets de Demailly en dimension 3 et nous obtenons leur caractérisation algébrique. En utilisant la théorie de la représentation des groupes linéaires, ceci nous permet de donner la structure du gradué du fibré des jets d'ordre 3 en dimension 3, étape importante pour obtenir des théorèmes d'hyperbolicité. Nous justifions la nécessité de travailler avec des jets de différentielles d'ordre 3 par l'absence de jets de différentielles d'ordre 2 sur les hypersurfaces lisses de l'espace projectif complexe de dimension 4.

Les désintégrations B+- -> KSpi+pi0 ont été extraites des données enregistrées par le détecteur BABAR auprès de l'accélérateur PEP2 du SLAC et mesurées en mettant en œuvre une analyse en amplitude (analyse de Dalitz). La désintégration recherchée fait partie d une classe de processus susceptibles de mettre en évidence une physique au-delà du modèle standard et du formalisme de Cabibbo, Kobayashi et Maskawa. L'originalité de ce travail réside dans la mise au point d un algorithme d'ajustement des événements utilisant la méthode du maximum de vraisemblance étendue applicable sur un lot non discrétisé. Des outils statistiques et de mathématique appliquée originaux ont été développés pour gérer le faible rapport signal sur bruit d'un canal avec un pi0 dans l état final et auquel une désintégration charmée contribue sans aucun facteur d interdiction. Faute de statistique, la méthode n'atteint pas la sensibilité requise pour tester le modèle standard en mesurant les phases fondamentales. Elle permet par contre de préciser les rapports d embranchement et les asymétries de CP directes des canaux qui contribuent à la désintégration étudiée.

L'étude des courbes entières dans les variétés complexes a déjà une longue histoire que l'on peut faire remonter au petit théorème de Picard. Les variétés complexes hyperboliques sont actuellement très étudiées notamment par les liens fascinants que l'hyperbolicité a avec la géométrie arithmétique. A la suite de Lang et Vojta, on dispose de conjectures sur les liens entre hyperbolicité analytique et arithmétique e.g. la densité des courbes entières et celle des points rationnels.On décrit dans ce texte de synthèse différentes approches possibles du problème de l'hyperbolicité: équations différentielles algébriques, structures orbifoldes et courants d'Ahlfors.

Dans cette thèse, nous abordons certains aspects de l'analyse locale dans les variétés presque complexes. Dans un premier temps, nous étudions le fibré cotangent qui est un outil important pour l'analyse et la géométrie complexe. Nous construisons un relevé de structure presque complexe, à l'aide d'une connexion, qui unifie les relevés complets de I.Sato et horizontaux de S.Ishihara et K.Yano. Par ailleurs, nous dégageons les principales propriétés analytiques et symplectiques du relevé ainsi construit. <br />Dans les deux études qui suivent, nous nous intéressons aux propriétés locales des domaines pseudoconvexes de type de D'Angelo fini d'une variété presque complexe de dimension réelle quatre. Nous construisons des fonctions locales pic plurisousharmoniques, généralisant des travaux de J.E.Fornaess et N.Sibony. La construction d'une telle famille de fonctions permet d'établir des propriétés d'attraction et de localisation des disques pseudoholomorphes. En particulier, elle réduit l'étude de la pseudométrique de Kobayashi à un problème purement local. Le comportement asymptotique de cette pseudométrique est relié à certaines questions fascinantes d'analyse locale dans les variétés comme les phénomènes de prolongement au bord des difféomorphismes ou encore la classification des domaines, et fournit des informations intéressantes sur les propriétés géométriques et dynamiques de la variété. Nous donnons alors des estimées locales de cette pseudométrique au voisinage du bord. De plus, dans le cas de stricte pseudoconvexité, nous obtenons des estimées très fines nous permettant d'étudier les liens entre l'hyperbolicité au sens de Kobayashi et l'hyperbolicité au sens de Gromov ; nous généralisons ainsi, au cadre presque complexe, un résultat dû à Z.M.Balogh et M.Bonk.

Precision measurements of superallowed Fermi β-decay allow for stringent tests of the magnitude of isospin-symmetry-breaking effects in nuclei, the validity of the conserved vector current hypothesis, and the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) quark-mixing matrix. A high-precision measurement of the branching ratio for the superallowed β+ decay of 74Rb has been performed at the Isotope Separator and ACcelerator (ISAC) facility at TRIUMF. The 8π spectrometer, an array of 20 HPGe detectors, was used to detect γ-rays emitted following the Gamow-Teller and non-analogue Fermi β-decays of 74Rb. PACES, an array of 5 Si(Li) detectors, was used to detect emitted conversion electrons, while half of SCEPTAR, a close-packed array of 10 plastic scintillators, was used to detect emitted β particles. In this experiment, 23 excited states were identified in 74Kr which were populated following the β-decay of 74Rb. A total of 58 γ-rays were identified following the 8.241(4)x108 detected β-particles. An observed non-superallowed branching ratio of 0.396(7)% was determined from the intensity of the identified γ-rays, while the unobserved non-superallowed intensity was calculated to be 0.05(5)%, leading to a superallowed branching ratio of 99.55(5)%. The superallowed branching ratio is now the most precise experimental quantity in the determination of the superallowed ft-value of 74Rb. Combining the half-life and Q-value with the superallowed branching ratio measured in this work leads to a superallowed ft-value of 3082.6(66) s. Finally, comparisons between the superallowed ft-value, the world average Ft-value, and the non-analogue Fermi branching ratio are made to provide future guidance in the refinement of the theoretical models required to describe the crucial isospin-symmetry-breaking term in superallowed β-decay.

We deal with two themes that are illustrative of the rigidity and regularity of holomorphic mappings. The first one concerns the regularity of continuous CR mappings between smooth pseudo convex, finite type hypersurfaces which is a well studied subject for it is linked with the problem of studying the boundary behaviour of proper holomorphic mappings between domains bounded by such hypersurfaces. More specifically, we study the regularity of Lipschitz CR mappings from an h-extendible(or semi-regular) hypersurface in Cn .Under various assumptions on the target hypersurface, it is shown that such mappings must be smooth. A rigidity result for proper holomorphic mappings from strongly pseudo convex domains is also proved. The second theme dealt with, is the classification upto biholomorphic equivalence of model domains with abelian automorphism group in C3 .It is shown that every model domain i.e.,a hyperbolic rigid polynomial domainin C3 of finite type, with abelian automorphism group is equivalent to a domain that is balanced with respect to some weight.

Kobayashi Takiji's (1903-1933) Kanikōsen (The Crab Cannery Ship, 1929), the outstanding work from the proletarian literary movement, experienced an influx of new adaptations into various mediums during the years that preceded and followed the "Kanikōsen boom" of 2008. This thesis focuses on two manga adaptations that provide readers with starkly different takes on the original story. Using theories by Scott McCloud and Azuma Hiroki, I first attempt to draw parallels between the form of manga and that of the novel. Then, I examine the manner in which the most explicitly political content of the novel is adapted into the manga versions. Through this examination of form and content, it becomes apparent that, despite their differences, both adaptations reinforce a vague, individualist-humanist ideology that undermines the notions of class consciousness and class struggle that are central to the narrative of Kanikōsen. This diminishing of the explicitly "Red" aspects of the original reflects the Japanese public's general aversion to politics that has persisted since the early 1970's until this day.

Conventional multicell wireless systems operate with out-of-cell interference treated as background noise; consequently, their performance faces two major limitations: 1)Signal processing is performed on a per-cell basis; and 2)Intercell interference detection is infeasible as intercell interference, although significantly above the noise level, is typically quite weak. In this thesis, we consider a multicell downlink scenario, where base-stations are equipped with multiple transmit antennas, the remote users are equipped with a single antenna, and multiple remote users are active simultaneously via spatial division multiplexing. We propose solutions for the above limitations by considering techniques for mitigating interference. The first part of the thesis proposes solutions for the first limitation. It considers the benefit of coordinating base-stations across multiple cells, where multiple base-stations may jointly optimize their respective beamformers to improve the overall system performance. It focuses on the design criteria of minimizing either the total weighted transmitted power or the maximum per-antenna power across the base-stations subject to signal-to-interference-and-noise-ratio (SINR) constraints at the remote users. The main contribution of this part is an efficient algorithm for finding the joint globally optimal beamformers across all base-stations. The proposed algorithm is based on a generalization of uplink-downlink duality to the multicell setting using the Lagrangian duality theory. An important feature is that it naturally leads to a distributed implementation in time-division duplex (TDD) systems. Simulation results suggest that coordinating the beamforming vectors alone already provides appreciable performance improvements as compared to the conventional per-cell optimized network. The second part of the thesis considers the transmission of both private and common messages for the sole purpose of intercell interference mitigation. It solves the issues of the second limitation mentioned above. It considers the benefit of designing decodable interference signals by allowing common-private message splitting at the transmitter and common message decoding by users in adjacent cells. It solves a network optimization problem of jointly determining the appropriate users in adjacent cells for rate splitting, the optimal beamforming vectors for both common and private messages, and the optimal common-private rates to minimize the total transmit power across the base-stations subject to service rate requirements for remote users. Observe that for fixed user selection and fixed common-private rate splitting, the optimization of beamforming vectors can be performed using a semidefinite programming approach. Further, this part of the thesis proposes a heuristic user-selection and rate splitting strategy to maximize the benefit of common message decoding. This part proposes a heuristic algorithm to characterize the improvement in the feasible rates with common-message decoding. Simulation results show that common message decoding can significantly improve both the total transmit power and the feasibility region for cell-edge users when base-stations are closely spaced from each other.

Conventional multicell wireless systems operate with out-of-cell interference treated as background noise; consequently, their performance faces two major limitations: 1)Signal processing is performed on a per-cell basis; and 2)Intercell interference detection is infeasible as intercell interference, although significantly above the noise level, is typically quite weak. In this thesis, we consider a multicell downlink scenario, where base-stations are equipped with multiple transmit antennas, the remote users are equipped with a single antenna, and multiple remote users are active simultaneously via spatial division multiplexing. We propose solutions for the above limitations by considering techniques for mitigating interference. The first part of the thesis proposes solutions for the first limitation. It considers the benefit of coordinating base-stations across multiple cells, where multiple base-stations may jointly optimize their respective beamformers to improve the overall system performance. It focuses on the design criteria of minimizing either the total weighted transmitted power or the maximum per-antenna power across the base-stations subject to signal-to-interference-and-noise-ratio (SINR) constraints at the remote users. The main contribution of this part is an efficient algorithm for finding the joint globally optimal beamformers across all base-stations. The proposed algorithm is based on a generalization of uplink-downlink duality to the multicell setting using the Lagrangian duality theory. An important feature is that it naturally leads to a distributed implementation in time-division duplex (TDD) systems. Simulation results suggest that coordinating the beamforming vectors alone already provides appreciable performance improvements as compared to the conventional per-cell optimized network. The second part of the thesis considers the transmission of both private and common messages for the sole purpose of intercell interference mitigation. It solves the issues of the second limitation mentioned above. It considers the benefit of designing decodable interference signals by allowing common-private message splitting at the transmitter and common message decoding by users in adjacent cells. It solves a network optimization problem of jointly determining the appropriate users in adjacent cells for rate splitting, the optimal beamforming vectors for both common and private messages, and the optimal common-private rates to minimize the total transmit power across the base-stations subject to service rate requirements for remote users. Observe that for fixed user selection and fixed common-private rate splitting, the optimization of beamforming vectors can be performed using a semidefinite programming approach. Further, this part of the thesis proposes a heuristic user-selection and rate splitting strategy to maximize the benefit of common message decoding. This part proposes a heuristic algorithm to characterize the improvement in the feasible rates with common-message decoding. Simulation results show that common message decoding can significantly improve both the total transmit power and the feasibility region for cell-edge users when base-stations are closely spaced from each other.

In this analysis the decay B- --&amp;gt; D*° e- nu is measured. The underlying data sample consists of about 226 million B-meson pairs accumulated on the Y(4S) resonance by the BABAR detector at the asymmetric e+e- collider PEP II. The reconstruction of the decay uses the channels D*° --&amp;gt; D° pi°, D° --&amp;gt; K- pi+ and pi° --&amp;gt; gamma gamma. The neutrino is not reconstructed. Since the rest frame of the B meson is unknown, the boost w of the D*° meson in the B meson rest frame is estimated by w'. The w' spectrum of the data is described in terms of the partial decay width dGamma/dw given by theory and the detector simulation translating each spectrum dGamma/dw into an expectation of the measured w' spectrum. dGamma/dw depends on a form factor F(w) parameterizing the strong interaction in the decay process. To find the best descriptive dGamma/dw a fit to the data determines the following two parameters of dGamma/dw: (i) F(1)|Vcb|, the product between F at zero D*°-recoil and the Quark mixing parameter |Vcb|; (ii) rho^2, a parameter of the form factor F(w). The former parameter scales the height of dGamma/dw and rho^2 varies the shape of it. The determined values of F(1)|Vcb|, rho^2 and the branching fraction BF(B- --&amp;gt; D*° e- nu) are F(1)|Vcb| = (35.8 +- 0.5 +- 1.5) x 10e-03, rho^2 = (1.08 +- 0.05 +- 0.09) and BF(B- --&amp;gt; D*° e- nu) = (5.60 +- 0.08 +- 0.42)%, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The value of BF(B- --&amp;gt; D*° e- nu) has been determined by an integration of dGamma/dw over the allowed w range using the fitted values of F(1)|Vcb| and rho^2.