Thesis (Ph. D. in Mathematics)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--Kiel.

If T:C(H,X)-->Y is a bounded linear operator then there exists a unique weakly regular finitely additive set function m:-->L(X,Y**) so that T(f) = ∫Hfdm. In this paper, bounded linear operators on C(H,X) are studied in terms the measure given by this representation theorem. The first chapter provides a brief history of representation theorems of these classes of operators. In the second chapter the represenation theorem used in the remainder of the paper is presented. If T is a weakly compact operator on C(H,X) with representing measure m, then m(A) is a weakly compact operator for every Borel set A. Furthermore, m is strongly bounded. Analogous statements may be made for many interesting classes of operators. In chapter III, two classes of operators, weakly precompact and QSP, are studied. Examples are provided to show that if T is weakly precompact (QSP) then m(A) need not be weakly precompact (QSP), for every Borel set A. In addition, it will be shown that weakly precompact and GSP operators need not have strongly bounded representing measures. Sufficient conditions are provided which guarantee that a weakly precompact (QSP) operator has weakly precompact (QSP) values. A sufficient condition for a weakly precomact operator to be strongly bounded is given. In chapter IV, weakly precompact subsets of L1(μ,X) are examined. For a Banach space X whose dual has the Radon-Nikodym property, it is shown that the weakly precompact subsets of L1(μ,X) are exactly the uniformly integrable subsets of L1(μ,X). Furthermore, it is shown that this characterization does not hold in Banach spaces X for which X* does not have the weak Radon-Nikodym property.

Cette thèse est consacrée à l'évaluation des familles exponentielles pour les problèmes de la modélisation des bruits et de la segmentation des images couleurs. Dans un premier temps, nous avons développé une nouvelle caractérisation des familles exponentielles naturelles infiniment divisible basée sur la fonction trace de la matrice de variance covariance associée. Au niveau application, cette nouvelle caractérisation a permis de détecter la nature de la loi d'un bruit additif associé à un signal où à une image couleur. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons proposé un nouveau modèle statistique paramétrique mulltivarié basé sur la loi de Riesz. La loi de ce nouveau modèle est appelée loi de la diagonale modifiée de Riesz. Ensuite, nous avons généralisé ce modèle au cas de mélange fini de lois. Enfin, nous avons introduit un algorithme de segmentation statistique d'image ouleur, à travers l'intégration de la méthode des centres mobiles (K-means) au niveau de l'initialisation pour une meilleure définition des classes de l'image et l'algorithme EM pour l'estimation des différents paramètres de chaque classe qui suit la loi de la diagonale modifiée de la loi de Riesz. / This thesis is dedicated to the evaluation of the exponential families for the problems of the noise modeling and the color images segmentation. First, we developed a new characterization of the infinitely divisible natural exponential families based on the trace function of the associated variance-covariance matrix. At the application level, this new characterization allowed to detect the nature of the law of an additive noise associated with a signal or with a color image. Second, we proposed a new parametric multivariate statistical model based on Riesz's distribution. The law of this new model is called the modified diagonal Riesz distribution. Then we generalized this model in the case of a finished mixture of distibution. Finally we introduced an algorithm of statistical segmentation of color images through the integration of the k-means method at the level of the initialization for a better definition of the image classes and the algorithm EM for the estimation of the different parameters of every class which follows the modified diagonal Riesz distribution.

Banachverbände spielen sowohl in der Theorie als auch in der Anwendung von geordneten normierten Räume eine bedeutende Rolle. Einerseits erweisen sich viele in der Praxis relevanten Räume als Banachverbände, andererseits ermöglichen die Vektorverbandsstruktur und die enge Beziehung zwischen Ordnung und Norm ein tiefes Verständnis solcher normierter Räume. An dieser Stelle setzen folgende Überlegungen an: - Die genaue Untersuchung einiger Resultate der reichhaltigen Banachverbandstheorie ließ (zu Recht) vermuten, dass in manchen Fällen die Verbandsnormeigenschaft keine notwendige Voraussetzung ist. In der Literatur gibt es bereits einige interessante Untersuchungen allgemeiner geordneter normierter Räume mit qualifizierten positiven Kegeln und in dem Zusammenhang eine Reihe wertvoller Dualitätsaussagen. An dieser Stelle sind die Eigenschaften der Normalität, der Nichtabgeflachtheit und der Regularität eines Kegels erwähnt, welche selbst im Falle eines mit einer Norm versehenen Vektorverbandes eine schwächere Relation zwischen Ordnung und Norm ergeben als die Verbandsnormeigenschaft. - In einer neueren Arbeit wurde der aus der Theorie der Vektorverbände gut bekannte Begriff der Disjunktheit bereits auf beliebige geordnete Räume verallgemeinert, wobei viele Eigenschaften disjunkter Vektoren, des disjunkten Komplements einer Menge usw., welche aus der Verbandstheorie bekannt sind, erhalten bleiben. Auf entsprechende Weise, d.h. durch das Ersetzen exakter Infima und Suprema durch Mengen unterer bzw. oberer Schranken, können der Modul eines Vektors sowie der Begriff der Solidität einer Menge für geordnete (normierte) Räume eingeführt werden. An solchen Überlegungen knüpft die vorliegende Arbeit an. Im Kapitel m-Normen ======== werden verallgemeinerte Formen der M-Norm Eigenschaft eingeführt und untersucht. AM-Räume und (approximative) Ordnungseinheit-Räume sind Beispiele für geordnete normierte Räume mit m-Norm. Die Schwerpunkte dieses Kapitels sind zum Einen Kegel- und Normeigenschaften dieser Räume und deren Charakterisierung mit Hilfe solcher Eigenschaften und zum Anderen Dualitätsaussagen, wie sie zum Teil bereits aus der Theorie der AM- und AL-Räume bekannt sind. Minimal totale Mengen ===================== Ziel dieses Kapitels ist es, den oben erwähnten verallgemeinerten Disjunktheitsbegiff für geordnete normierte Räume zu untersuchen. Eine zentrale Rolle spielen dabei totale Mengen im Dualraum und insbesondere minimal totale Mengen sowie deren Zusammenhang mit der Disjunktheit von Elementen des Ausgangsraumes. Normierte pre-Riesz Räume ========================= Wie bereits bekannt, lässt sich jeder pre-Riesz Raum ordnungsdicht in einen (bis auf Isomorphie) eindeutigen minimalen Vektorverband einbetten, die so genannte Riesz Vervollständigung. Ist der pre-Riesz Raum normiert und sein positiver Kegel abgeschlossen, dann kann eine Verbandsnorm auf der Riesz Vervollständigung eingeführt werden, welche sich in vielen Fällen als äquivalent zur Ausgangsnorm auf dem pre-Riesz Raum erweist. Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass sich dann auch stetige lineare Funktionale fortsetzen lassen. In diesem Kapitel wird nun untersucht, inwiefern sich Ordnungsrelationen auf einer Menge stetiger linearer Funktionale beim Übergang zur Menge der Fortsetzungen erhalten lassen. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse kommen anschließend bei Untersuchungen zur schwachen bzw. schwach*-Topologie auf geordneten normierten Räumen zur Anwendung. Hierbei werden zwei Fragestellungen behandelt. Zum Einen gilt das Augenmerk disjunkten Folgen in geordneten normierten Räumen. Als Beispiel seien ordnungsbeschränkte disjunkte Folgen in geordneten normierten Räumen mit halbmonotoner mNorm genannt, welche stets schwach gegen Null konvergieren. Zum Anderen werden monoton fallende Folgen und Netze bzw. disjunkte Folgen von stetigen linearen Funktionalen auf einem geordneten normierten Raum betrachtet. / Banach lattices play an important role in the theory of ordered normed spaces. One reason is, that many ordered normed vector spaces, that are important in practice, turn out to be Banach lattices, on the other hand, the lattice structure and strong relations between order and norm allow a deep understanding of such ordered normed spaces. At this point the following is to be considered. - The analysis of some results in the rich Banach lattice theory leads to the conjecture, that sometimes the lattice norm property is no necessary supposition. General ordered normed spaces with a convenient positive cone were already examined, where some valuable duality properties could be achieved. We point out the properties of normality, non-flatness and regularity of a cone, which are a weaker relation between order and norm than the lattice norm property in normed vector lattices. - The notion of disjointness in vector lattices has already been generalized to arbitrary ordered vector spaces. Many properties of disjoint elements, the disjoint complement of a set etc., well known from the vector lattice theory, are preserved. The modulus of a vector as well as the concept of the solidness of a set can be introduced in a similar way, namely by replacing suprema and infima by sets of upper and lower bounds, respectively. We take such ideas up in the present thesis. A generalized version of the M-norm property is introduced and examined in section m-norms. ======= AM-spaces and approximate order unit spaces are examples of ordered normed spaces with m-norm. The main points of this section are the special properties of the positive cone and the norm of such spaces and the duality properties of spaces with m-norm. Minimal total sets ================== In this section we examine the mentioned generalized disjointness in ordered normed spaces. Total sets as well as minimal total sets and their relation to disjoint elements play an inportant at this. Normed pre-Riesz spaces ======================= As already known, every pre-Riesz space can be order densely embedded into an (up to isomorphism) unique vector lattice, the so called Riesz completion. If, in addition, the pre-Riesz space is normed and its positive cone is closed, then a lattice norm can be introduced on the Riesz completion, that turns out to be equivalent to the primary norm on the pre-Riesz space in many cases. Positive linear continuous functionals on the pre-Riesz space are extendable to positive linear continuous functionals in this setting. Here we investigate, how some order relations on a set of continuous functionals can be preserved to the set of the extension. In the last paragraph of this section the obtained results are applied for investigations of some questions concerning the weak and the weak* topology on ordered normed vector spaces. On the one hand, we focus on disjoint sequences in ordered normed spaces. On the other hand, we deal with decreasing sequences and nets and disjoint sequences of linear continuous functionals on ordered normed spaces.

Cette thèse comporte deux sujets d’étude mêlés. Le premier concerne l’étude de la bornitude sur Lp de la transformée de Riesz d∆-½ , où ∆ désigne l’opérateur de Laplace-Beltrami (positif). Le second traite de la régularité de Sobolev W1,p de la solution de l’équation de la chaleur non perturbée. Nous établissons également quelques résultats concernant les transformées de Riesz d’opérateurs de Schrödinger avec un potentiel comportant éventuellement une partie négative.Dans le cadre de ces travaux, nous nous plaçons sur une variété riemanienne (M, g) complète et non compacte. Nous supposons que M satisfait la propriété de doublement de volume (de constante de doublement égale à D) ainsi qu’une estimation gaussienne supérieure pour son noyau de la chaleur (celui associé à l’opérateur ∆). Nous travaillons avec le laplacien de Hodge-de Rham, noté ∆, agissant sur les 1-formes différentielles de M. En s’appuyant sur la formule de Bochner, liant ∆ à la courbure de Ricci de M, nous assimilons ∆ à un opérateur de Schrödinger à valeurs vectorielles. C’est un argument de dualité, basé sur une formule de commutation algébrique, qui lie l’étude de ∆ à celle de ∆. [...] / This thesis has two main parts. The first one deals with the study of the boundedness on Lp of the Riesz transform d∆-½ , where ∆ denotes the nonnegative Laplace-Beltrami operator. The second one deals with the Sobolev regularity W1,p of the solution of the heat equation. We also establish some results on the Riesz transforms of Schrödinger operators with a potential possibly having a negative part. In this work, we consider a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold (M, g). We assume that M satisfies the volume doubling property (with doubling constant equal to D) as well as a Gaussian upper estimate for its heat kernel associated to the operator ∆. We work with the Hodge-de Rham Laplacian ∆, acting on 1-differential forms of M. With the Bochner formula, linking ∆to the Ricci curvature of M, we see ∆ has a vector-valued Schrödinger operator. It is a duality argument, based on a commutation formula, which links the study of ∆to the one of ∆. [...]

Dans cette thèse nous étudions la bornitude des transformées de Riesz associées aux opérateurs de Schrödinger avec des potentiels qui admettent des parties négatives.Cette étude a lieu dans un premier temps sur les espaces de Lebesgue Lp(RN, dx), puissur les espaces Lp(M, dx) où M est une variété Riemannienne de type homogène et dans un dernier temps sur les espaces à poids Lp(RN,wdx). Nous considérons également,sur ces espaces à poids, la bornitude du calcul fonctionnel holomorphe associé et la bornitude des puissances négatives de l’opérateur de Schrödinger. / In this thesis we study the boundedness of Riesz transforms associated to Schrödinger operators with potentials having negative parts. First we consider the boundednesson Lp(RN, dx), then on Lp(M, dx) where M is a Riemannian manifold of homogeneous type. Finally we treat the boundedness of Riesz transforms on Lp(RN,wdx). As we consider, on the weighted spaces, the boundedness of the associated holomorphicfunctional calculus and the boundedness of the negative powers of the Schrödinger operator.

Dans cette thèse, nous étudions l'approximation et la stabilisation de certaines équations d'évolution, en utilisant la théorie des semi-groups et l'analyse spectrale. Cette thèse est divisée en deux parties principales. Dans la première partie, comme dans [3, 4], nous considérons l'approximation des équations d'évolution du deuxième ordre modélisant les vibrations de structures élastiques. Il est bien connu que le système approché par éléments finis ou différences finies n'est pas uniformément exponentiellement ou polynomialement stable par rapport au paramètre de discrétisation, même si le système continu a cette propriété. Dans la première partie, notre objectif est d'amortir les modes parasites à haute fréquence en introduisant des termes de viscosité numérique dans le schéma d'approximation. Avec ces termes de viscosité, nous montrons la décroissance exponentielle ou polynomiale du schéma discret lorsque le problème continu a une telle décroissance et quand le spectre de l'opérateur spatial associé au problème conservatif satisfait la condition du gap généralisée. En utilisant le Théorème de Trotter-Kato, nous montrons la convergence de la solution discrète vers la solution continue. Quelques exemples sont également présentés. / In this thesis, we study the approximation and stabilization of some evolution equations, using semigroup theory and some spectral analysis. This Ph.D. thesis is divided into two main parts. In the first part, as in [3, 4], we consider the approximation of second order evolution equations modeling the vibrations of elastic structures. It is well known that the approximated system by finite elements or finite differences is not uniformly exponentially or polynomially stable with respect to the discretization parameter, even if the continuous system has this property. Therefore, our goal is to damp the spurious high frequency modes by introducing numerical viscosity terms in the approximation scheme. With these viscosity terms, we show the exponential or polynomial decay of the discrete scheme when the continuous problem has such a decay and when the spectrum of the spatial operator associated with the undamped problem satisfies the generalized gap condition. By using the Trotter-Kato Theorem, we further show the convergence of the discrete solution to the continuous one. Some illustrative examples are also presented.

<p>This thesis consists of three papers on the following topics in functional analysis and probability theory: Riesz bases and frames, weakly stationary stochastic processes and analysis of set-valued stochastic processes. In the first paper we investigate Uniformly Bounded Linearly Stationary stochastic processes from the point of view of the theory of Riesz bases. By regarding these stochastic processes as generalized Riesz bases we are able to gain some new insight into there structure. Special attention is paid to regular UBLS processes as well as perturbations of weakly stationary processes. An infinite sequence of subspaces of a Hilbert space is called regular if it is decreasing and zero is the only element in its intersection. In the second paper we ask for conditions under which the regularity of a sequence of subspaces is preserved when the sequence undergoes a deformation by a linear and bounded operator. Linear, bounded and surjective operators are closely linked with frames and we also investigate when a frame is a regular sequence of vectors. A multiprocess is a stochastic process whose values are compact sets. As generalizations of the class of subharmonic processes and the class of subholomorphic processesas introduced by Thomas Ransford, in the third paper of this thesis we introduce the general notions of a gauge of processes and a multigauge of multiprocesses. Compositions of multiprocesses with multifunctions are discussed and the boundary crossing property, related to the intermediate-value property, is investigated for general multiprocesses. Time changes of multiprocesses are investigated in the environment of multigauges and we give a multiprocess version of the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz Theorem.</p>

This thesis consists of three papers on the following topics in functional analysis and probability theory: Riesz bases and frames, weakly stationary stochastic processes and analysis of set-valued stochastic processes. In the first paper we investigate Uniformly Bounded Linearly Stationary stochastic processes from the point of view of the theory of Riesz bases. By regarding these stochastic processes as generalized Riesz bases we are able to gain some new insight into there structure. Special attention is paid to regular UBLS processes as well as perturbations of weakly stationary processes. An infinite sequence of subspaces of a Hilbert space is called regular if it is decreasing and zero is the only element in its intersection. In the second paper we ask for conditions under which the regularity of a sequence of subspaces is preserved when the sequence undergoes a deformation by a linear and bounded operator. Linear, bounded and surjective operators are closely linked with frames and we also investigate when a frame is a regular sequence of vectors. A multiprocess is a stochastic process whose values are compact sets. As generalizations of the class of subharmonic processes and the class of subholomorphic processesas introduced by Thomas Ransford, in the third paper of this thesis we introduce the general notions of a gauge of processes and a multigauge of multiprocesses. Compositions of multiprocesses with multifunctions are discussed and the boundary crossing property, related to the intermediate-value property, is investigated for general multiprocesses. Time changes of multiprocesses are investigated in the environment of multigauges and we give a multiprocess version of the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz Theorem.