In this thesis we prove the genericity of the set of metrics on a manifold with boundary M^{n+1}, such that all free boundary constant mean curvature (CMC) embeddings \\varphi: \\Sigma^n \\to M^{n+1}, being \\Sigma a manifold with boundary, are non-degenerate (Bumpy Metrics), (Theorem 2.4.1). We also give sufficient conditions to obtain a free boundary CMC deformation of a CMC inmersion (Theorems 3.2.1 and 3.2.2), and a stability criterion for this type of immersions (Theorem 3.3.3 and Corollary 3.3.5). In addition, given a one-parametric family, {\\varphi _t : \\Sigma \\to M} , of free boundary CMC immersions, we give criteria for the existence of smooth bifurcated branches of free boundary CMC immersions for the family {\\varphi_t}, via the implicit function theorem when the kernel of the Jacobi operator J is non-trivial, (Theorems 4.2.3 and 4.3.2), and we study stability and instability problems for hypersurfaces in this bifurcated branches (Theorems 5.3.1 and 5.3.3). / Nesta tese, provamos a genericidade do conjunto de métricas em uma variedade com fronteira M^{n+1}, de modo que todos os mergulhos de curvatura média constante (CMC) e fronteira livre \\varphi : \\Sigma^n \\to M^{n+1}, sendo \\Sigma uma variedade com fronteira, sejam não-degenerados (Métricas Bumpy), (Teorema 2.4.1). Nós também fornecemos condições suficientes para obter uma deformação CMC e fronteira livre de uma imersão CMC (Teoremas 3.2.1 and 3.2.2), e um critério de estabilidade para este tipo de imersões (Teorema 3.3.3 and Corolario 3.3.5). Além disso, dada uma família 1-paramétrica, {\\varphi _t : \\Sigma \\to M} , de imersões de CMC e fronteira livre, damos os critérios para a existência de ramos de bifurcação suaves de imersões CMC e fronteira livre para a familia {\\varphi_t}, por meio de o teorema da função implícita quando o kernel do operador Jacobi J é não-trivial, (Teoremas 4.2.3 and 4.3.2), e estudamos o problema da estabilidade e instabilidade para hipersuperfícies em naqueles ramos de bifurcação (Teoremas 5.3.1 and 5.3.3).

The objective of this research is to evaluate and introduce a new methodology regarding rural highway safety. Current practices rely on crash prediction models that utilize specific explanatory variables, whereas the depository of knowledge for past research is the Highway Safety Manual (HSM). Most of the prediction models in the HSM identify the effect of individual geometric elements on crash occurrence and consider their combination in a multiplicative manner, where each effect is multiplied with others to determine their combined influence. The concepts of 3-dimesnional (3-D) representation of the roadway surface have also been explored in the past aiming to model the highway structure and optimize the roadway alignment. The use of differential geometry on utilizing the 3-D roadway surface in order to understand how new metrics can be used to identify and express roadway geometric elements has been recently utilized and indicated that this may be a new approach in representing the combined effects of all geometry features into single variables. This research will further explore this potential and examine the possibility to utilize 3-D differential geometry in representing the roadway surface and utilize its associated metrics to consider the combined effect of roadway features on crashes. It is anticipated that a series of single metrics could be used that would combine horizontal and vertical alignment features and eventually predict roadway crashes in a more robust manner. It should be also noted that that the main purpose of this research is not to simply suggest predictive crash models, but to prove in a statistically concrete manner that 3-D metrics of differential geometry, e.g. Gaussian Curvature and Mean Curvature can assist in analyzing highway design and safety. Therefore, the value of this research is oriented towards the proof of concept of the link between 3-D geometry in highway design and safety. This thesis presents the steps and rationale of the procedure that is followed in order to complete the proposed research. Finally, the results of the suggested methodology are compared with the ones that would be derived from the, state-of-the-art, Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM), which is essentially the software that is currently used and based on the findings of the HSM.

Three dimensional (3D) surface feature extractions based on mean (H) and Gaussian (K) curvature analysis of range maps, also known as depth maps, is an important tool for machine vision applications such as object detection, registration and recognition. Mean and Gaussian curvature calculation algorithms have already been implemented and examined as software. In this thesis, hardware based digital curvature processors are designed. Two types of real time surface feature extraction and classification hardware are developed which perform mean and Gaussian curvature analysis at different scale levels. The techniques use different gradient approximations. A fast square root algorithm using both LUT (look up table) and linear fitting technique is developed to calculate H and K values of the surface described by the 3D Range Map formed by fixed point numbers. The proposed methods are simulated in MatLab software and implemented on different FPGAs using VHDL hardware language. Calculation times, outputs and power analysis of these techniques are compared to CPU based 64 bit float data type calculations.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Este trabalho à baseado no artigo The Mean Curvature Cylindrically Bounded Submanifolds, nele abordaremos uma estimativa para a curvatura mÃdia de subvariedades completas cilindricamente limitadas. Ademais apresentaremos uma relaÃÃo entre uma estimativa da curvatura mÃdia e o fato de M ser estocasticamente incompleta. / This work is based on the article The Mean Curvature Cylindrically Bounded Submanifolds, it will discuss an estimate for the mean curvature of complete cylindrically submanifolds bounded. Furthermore we present a relationship between an estimate of the mean curvature and the fact that M is stochastically incomplete.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Apresentamos desigualdades do tipo Penrose e um teorema de massa positiva para buracos negros carregados, isto Ã, dados iniciais para soluÃÃes tempo-simÃtricas das equaÃÃes de Einstein-Maxwell, que podem ser isometricamente mergulhados no espaÃo euclidiano como grÃficos. As demonstraÃÃes usam uma fÃrmula integral para massa ADM de tais hipersuperfÃcies e o fluxo pela curvatura mÃdia inversa. / We present Penrose-type inequalities and a positive mass theorem to charged black roles, ie, initial data for time-symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations, which can be isometrically immersed in Euclidean space as graphics. The statements use an integral formula for the ADM mass of such hypersurfaces and the inverse mean curvature flow.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / No presente trabalho, provaremos resultados de comparaÃÃo para o nÃcleo do calor de subvariedades mÃnimas de variedades Riemannianas com curvatura seccional limitada superiormente pela curvatura de uma variedade modelo. Em seguida, iremos obter resultados sobre a propriedade L1-Liouville de submersÃes Riemannianas com fibras mÃnimas. Por Ãltimo, provaremos desigualdades para o tom fundamental ponderado de subconjuntos transversalmente folheados de variedades Riemannianas ponderadas em termos das curvaturas mÃdias ponderadas das folhas da folheaÃÃo. / In this work we will prove comparison results for the heat kernel of minimal submanifolds in Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded above by the curvature of a model manifold. Next we will obtain results about the L1-Liouville property of Riemannian submersions with minimal fibers. Finnaly, we will prove inequalities for the weighted fundamental tone of transversally foliated subsets of weighted Riemannian manifolds in terms of the weighted mean curvatures of the leaves of the foliation.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / A hypersurface in a manifold, both with nonempty boundary, is called free boundary hypersurface if it is a critical point of the area functional restricted to all admissible variations which preserve volume. A variation is admissible if the boundary and the interior of the manifold contains the boundary and the interior of the hypersurfaces of the variation, respectively. It is well known that free boundary hypersurface has constant mean curvature. In this work we study free boundary hypersurfaces in bounded convex domains in the euclidean space. More precisely, we prove the results obtained by A. Ros and E. Vergasta [18] and I. nunes [15]. As the main result we prove that a stable free boundary surface in the unit ball of the three-dimensional euclidian space has to be either the totally geodesic disc or a spherical cap. / Uma hipersupefície de uma variedade, ambas com fronteira não vazia, é chamada de hipersupefície com fronteira livre se é ponto crítico do funcional área restrito a todas as variações admissíveis que preservam volume. Uma variação é dita admissível se a fronteira e o interior da variedade contém as fronteiras e os inteiores das hipersupefícies da variação, respectivamente. É bem conhecido que hipersupefícies com fronteira livre possuem curvatura média constante. Neste trabalho estudamos hipersuperfíce com fronteira livre em domínios convexos limitados do espaço euclidiano. Mais especificamente, expomos com detalhes os resultados obtidos por A. Ros-E. Vergasta e I. Nunes. Provamos como resultado principal que toda superfícies de fronteira livre estável na bola unitária do espaço euclidiano tridimensional é um disco totalmente geodésico ou uma calota esférica. / São Cristóvão, SE

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / We study problems of existence and uniqueness of constant mean curvature surfaces with prescribed boundary satisfying the bounded slope condition. The surfaces are given as Euclidean graphs in R3 and as parabolic graphs in H3, over bounded domains contained in totally geodesic surfaces in these ambients, or moreover, as radial graphs over bounded domains contained in S2. / Estudamos problemas de existência e unicidade de superfícies de curvatura média constante com bordo prescrito satisfazendo a condição de declividade limitada (CDL). Tais superfícies são dadas como gráficos euclidianos (verticais) em R3 e como gráficos parabólicos em H3, definidos sobre domínios limitados contidos em superfícies totalmente geodésicas destes ambientes, ou ainda como gráficos radiais em R3 sobre domínios limitados contidos em S2.