Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, of Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, [2004]. Graduate Programme in [Mathematics]. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-166). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ99158

Assumindo a existência de $\\mathfrak c$ ultrafiltros seletivos dois a dois incomparáveis (segundo a ordem de Rudin-Keisler) provamos que o grupo abeliano livre de cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia de grupo enumeravelmente compacta com uma seqüência não trivial convergente. Sob as mesmas hipóteses, mostramos que um grupo topológico abeliano quase livre de torção $(G, +, \\tau)$ com $|G| = |\\tau| = \\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia independente de $\\tau$ que o torna um grupo topológico e caracterizamos algebricamente os grupos abelianos de não torção que têm cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ e que admitem uma topologia de grupo enumeravelmente compacta (sem seqüências não triviais convergentes). Provamos, ainda, que o grupo abeliano livre de cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia de grupo que torna seu quadrado enumeravelmente compacto e construímos um semigrupo de Wallace cujo quadrado é, também, enumeravelmente compacto. Por fim, assumindo a existência de $2^{\\mathfrak c}$ ultrafiltros seletivos, garantimos que se um grupo abeliano de não torção e cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia de grupo enumeravelmente compacta, então o mesmo admite $2^{\\mathfrak c}$ topologias de grupo enumeravelmente compactas (duas a duas não homeomorfas). / Assuming the existence of $\\mathfrak c$ pairwise incomparable selective ultrafilters (according to the Rudin-Keisler ordering) we prove that the free abelian group of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ admits a countably compact group topology that contains a non-trivial convergent sequence. Under the same hypothesis, we show that an abelian almost torsion-free topological group $(G, +, \\tau)$ with $|G| = |\\tau| = \\mathfrak c$ admits a group topology independent of $\\tau$ and we algebraically characterize the non-torsion abelian groups of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ which admit a countably compact group topology (without non-trivial convergent sequences). We also prove that the free abelian group of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ admits a group topology that makes its square countably compact and we construct a Wallace\'s semigroup whose square is countably compact. Finally, assuming the existence of $2^$ selective ultrafilters, we ensure that if a non-torsion abelian group of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ admits a countably compact group topology, then it admits $2^$ (pairwise non-homeomorphic) countably compact group topologies.

In the first chapter, we define Steinhaus set as a set that meets every isometric copy of another set at exactly one point. We show that there is no Steinhaus set for any four-point subset in a plane.In the second chapter, we define the orbit tree of a permutation group of natural numbers, and further introduce compressed orbit trees. We show that any rooted finite tree can be realized as a compressed orbit tree of some permutation group. In the third chapter, we investigate certain classes of closed permutation groups of natural numbers with respect to their universal and surjectively universal groups. We characterize two-sided invariant groups, and prove that there is no universal group for countable groups, nor universal group for two-sided invariant groups in permutation groups of natural numbers.

This dissertation considers several problems related to Ricci flow, including the existence and behavior of solutions. The first goal is to obtain explicit, coordinate-based descriptions of Ricci flow solutions--especially those corresponding to Ricci solitons--on two classes of nilpotent Lie groups. On the odd-dimensional classical Heisenberg groups, we determine the asymptotics of Ricci flow starting at any metric, and use Lott's blowdown method to demonstrate convergence to soliton metrics. On the groups of real unitriangular matrices, which are more complicated, we describe the solitons and corresponding solutions using a suitable ansatz. Next, we consider solsolitons involving the nilsolitons in the Heisenberg case above. This uses work of Lauret, which characterizes solsolitons as certain extensions of nilsolitons, and work of Will, which demonstrates that the space of solsolitons extensions of a given nilsoliton is parametrized by the quotient of a Grassmannian by a finite group. We determine these spaces of solsoliton extensions of Heisenberg nilsolitons, and we also explicitly describe many-parameter families of these solsolitons in dimensions greater than three. Finally, we explore Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow, both as it arises naturally in certain bundle constructions related to Ricci flow and as a geometric flow in its own right. In the first case, we generalize a theorem of Knopf that demonstrates convergence and stability of certain locally R[superscript N]-invariant Ricci flow solutions. In the second case, we prove a version of Hamilton's compactness theorem for the coupled flow, and then generalize it to the category of etale Riemannian groupoids. We also provide a detailed example of solutions to the flow on the three-dimensional Heisenberg group. / text

The work of mathematical giants, such as Lobachevsky, Gauss, Riemann, Klein and Poincaré, to name a few, lies at the foundation of the study of the highly structured Riemann surfaces, which allow definition of holomorphic maps, corresponding to analytic maps in the theory of complex analysis. A topological result of Poincaré states that every path-connected Riemann surface can be realised by a construction of identifying congruent points in the complex plane, the Riemann sphere or the hyperbolic plane; just three simply connected surfaces that cover the underlying Riemann surface. This requires the discontinuous action of a discrete subgroup of the automorphisms of the corresponding space. In the hyperbolic plane, which is the richest source for Riemann surfaces, these groups are called Fuchsian, and there are several ways to study the action of such groups geometrically by computing fundamental domains. What is accomplished in this thesis is a combination of the methods found by Reidemeister & Schreier, Singerman and Voight, and thus provides a unified way of finding Dirichlet domains for subgroups of cofinite groups with a given index. Several examples are considered in-depth.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 marini_mc_me_sjrp.pdf: 3119748 bytes, checksum: 9e6f062d94f6fdfb7d9cb0cfae289118 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O Teorema de Borsuk-Ulam clássico afirma que: “Se f : Sn → IRn é uma aplicação contínua, entãoexisteumponto x em Sn talque f(x) = f(−x), ouequivalentemente f(x) = f(A(x)), onde Sn indica a esfera unitária n-dimensional e A : Sn → Sn é a aplicação antipodal”. Se pensamos na superfície terrestre como uma esfera, o caso n = 2 pode ser ilustrado dizendo-se que em cada instante, existe sempre um par de pontos antipodais na superfície da Terra com mesma temperatura e pressão barométrica (supondo que a temperatura e a pressão variam continuamente na superfície). Este trabalho é baseado no artigo “Some generalizations of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem” de Vendrúsculo, Desideri e Pergher (2011), [8], e tem como principal objetivo apresentar um estudo de uma versão fraca do Teorema de Borsuk-Ulam associada a grupos topológicos. Diz-se que {(X,T);G}, onde X é um espaço topológico equipado por uma involução livre T e G é um grupo topológico, “satisfaz uma versão fraca do Teorema de Borsuk-Ulam”, abreviadamente, “satisfaz WBUT”, se, para cada aplicação contínua f : X → G, temos que o conjunto {x ∈ X; f(x) · f(T(x))−1 ∈ 2G} é diferente do vazio, onde f(T(x))−1 é o simétrico de f(T(x)) em G e 2G = {g ∈ G; g = g−1}. Neste trabalho, relacionamos essa condição fraca com a condição geral de “satisfazer o Teorema de Borsuk-Ulam” (ou “satisfazer BUT”) dada também pelos autores; apresentamos alguns exemplos; considerando G = T2 (toro), detalhamos a demonstração de um resultado que estabelece um critério algébrico para que {(X,T);T2} satisfaça a condição WBUT e de um resultado que dá uma equivalência entre a versão fraca WBUT para triplas {(S,T);T2} e a condição BUT para {(S,T);IR2}, sendo S uma superfície fechada. Por fim, apresentamos um invariante topológico obtido da versão WBUT. Tal invariante, por nós definido, é similar ao obtido da condição BUT e apresentado pelos autores citados. / The classical Borsuk-Ulam Theorem states that: “If f : Sn → IRn is any continuous map, then there exists a point x in Sn such that f(x) = f(−x), or equivalently f(x) = f(A(x)), where Sn denotes the n-dimensional unit sphere and A : Sn → Sn is the antipodal map”. If we think of the Earth’s surface as a sphere, the case n = 2 can be illustrated by saying that at every instant there is always a pair of antipodal points on the Earth’s surface with the same temperature and barometric pressure (assuming that the temperature and pressure vary continuously in the surface). This work is based on the article “Some generalizations of Borsuk-Ulam Theorem” by Ven drúsculo, Desideri and Pergher (2011), [8], and has the main purpose of presenting a study of a weak version of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem associated with topolog ical groups. It is said that {(X,T);G}, where X is a topological space equipped with a free involution T and G is a topological group “satisfies a Weak version of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem”, abbreviatedly, “satisfies WBUT” if, given any continuous map f : X → Y , the set {x ∈ X; f(x) · f(T(x))−1 ∈ 2G} is non empty, where f(T(x))−1 is the symmetric of f(T(x)) in G and 2G = {g ∈ G; g = g−1}. In this work, we relate this weak condition with the more general condition of “satisfying the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem” (or “satisfying BUT”) also given by the authors; we present some examples; considering G = T2 (torus), we detail the proof of a result that establishes an algebraic criterion for {(X,T);T2} satisfy the condition WBUT, and of a result that gives an equivalence between the weak version WBUT for triples {(S,T);T2} and the condition BUT for {(S,T);IR2}, where S is a closed surface and T is a free involution on S. Finally, we present a topological invariant obtained from the WBUT version. Such invariant, defined by us, is similar to that obtained from the BUT condition and presented by the cited authors.

Orientador: Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T12:02:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martin_MariaEugenia_M.pdf: 974097 bytes, checksum: 862be4d1ac3b05cc1a28ba59cf6c0460 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação discutimos propriedades homológicas de grupos discretos e grupos pro-p. Em particular trabalhamos com grupos abstratos de dualidade de Poincaré orientáveis de dimensão três e seu completamento pro-p. Os primeiros capítulos da dissertação incluem uma exposição sobre as propriedades homológicas básicas de grupos abstratos e grupos pro-p. Finalmente, descrevemos um resultado recente de [KZ], publicado em Transactions MAS ( 2008), que clássica quando o completamento pro-p de um grupo de dualidade de Poincaré orientável de dimensão três de um grupo pro-p de dualidade de Poincaré orientável de dimensão três / Abstract: In this dissertation we discuss homological properties of discrete groups and pro-p groups. In particular we work with groups of abstract of Poincaré duality of dimension three steerable and its pro-p completion. The first chapters of the dissertation include a presentation on the basic homological properties of abstract groups and pro-p groups. Finally, we describe a recent result of [KZ], published in Transactions AMS (2008), which ranks as the pro-p completion of a group of Poincare-steerable dual dimension of three is a group of pro-p duality of Poincare -steerable in three dimensions / Mestrado / Mestre em Matemática

Orientador: Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T17:04:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_IgordosSantos_D.pdf: 1446540 bytes, checksum: 1e68bfb627d234fa97739cd2e813b4a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Neste trabalho, nos Teoremas Principais, damos condições suficientes para que o completamento pro-p de um grupo abstrato PDn seja virtualmente um grupo pro-p PDs para algum s ? n - 2 com n ? 4. Esse resultado é uma generalização do Teorema 3 em [K-2009]. Nossa prova é baseada em [K-2009] e nos resultados de A. A. Korenev [Ko-2004] e [Ko-2005]. Além disso, damos alguns exemplos de grupos que satisfazem as condições dos Teoremas Principais / Abstract: In this work we give in the Main Theorems suffiient conditions for that the pro- p completion of an abstract orientable PDn group to be virtually a pro-p PDs group for some s ? n - 2 with n ? 4. This result is a generalization of the Theorem 3 in [K-2009]. Our proof is based on [K-2009] and on the results of A. A. Korenev [Ko-2004] and [Ko-2005]. Furthermore we give some examples of groups that satisfy the conditions of the Main Theorems / Doutorado / Matematica / Doutor em Matemática

Este trabalho é uma contribuição ao estudo da geometria de larga escala de espaços de Banach e de grupos topológicos. Embora esses dois campos sejam tradicionalmente estudados de forma independente, em 2017, Christian Rosendal mostrou que eles podem ser encarados como faces distintas de algo maior: a geometria grosseira de grupos topológicos. Uma ferramenta essencial para o desenvolvimento dessa nova abordagem é a noção de estrutura coarse, introduzida por John Roe em 2003, a qual pode ser vista como a contraparte de larga escala do conceito de estrutura uniforme. Por essa razão, os capítulos iniciais da dissertação destinam-se a apresentar uma introdução elementar à teoria dos espaços uniformes e dos espaços coarse, destacando os conceitos-chave para a compreensão dos demais capítulos e conferindo particular atenção ao estudo de uniformidades e estruturas coarse associadas a grupos topológicos, dentre as quais são enfatizadas as estruturas uniforme à esquerda e coarse à esquerda de um grupo topológico. No capítulo 5, são discutidos resultados recentes de Christian Rosendal acerca da existência de mergulhos uniformes e mergulhos grosseiros entre espaços de Banach. Dois dos mais importantes afirmam que, se existir uma função f uniformemente contínua e não colapsada entre os espaços de Banach (X, ||·||_X) e (E, ||·||_E), então, para todo p em [1, + infty[, existirá um mergulho uniforme de (X, ||·||_X) em (l_p(E), ||·||_p) o qual é, também, um mergulho grosseiro, e que, se f for, também, limitada, existirá um mergulho grosseiro uniformemente contínuo de (X, ||·||_X) em (ExE, ||·||_(ExE)). Já no capítulo 6, estuda-se a classe das estruturas coarse invariantes à esquerda sobre grupos. Inicialmente, mostra-se como uma estrutura coarse invariante à esquerda em um grupo (G, · ) pode ser descrita em função de um certo ideal sobre G, e vice-versa. Em seguida, utiliza-se esse resultado para caracterizar a estrutura coarse à esquerda E_L de um grupo topológico (G, · , T) em termos da coleção dos conjuntos grosseiramente limitados em (G, E_L) e, com isso, provar que a estrutura coarse à esquerda associada ao grupo aditivo de um espaço normado coincide com a estrutura coarse limitada induzida pela norma. / This work is a contribution to the study of large-scale geometry of Banach spaces and topological groups. Although these two fields are traditionally studied independently, in 2017, Christian Rosendal showed they can be regarded as different aspects of a more general theory: the coarse geometry of topological groups. An essential tool for the development of this new approach is the notion of coarse structure, introduced by John Roe in 2003, which can be seen as the large-scale counterpart of the concept of uniform structure. For this reason, the initial chapters of this work intend to present an elementary introduction to both uniform and coarse spaces theory, highlighting the key concepts for the understanding of the other chapters and paying particular attention to the study of uniform and coarse structures associated with topological groups, and, mainly, to the left-uniform and the left-coarse structures of a topological group. In Chapter 5, we discuss Rosendal\'s recent results on the existence of uniform and coarse embeddings between Banach spaces. Two of the most important state that, if there is an uncollapsed uniformly continuous function f between the Banach spaces (X, ||·||_X) and (E, ||·||_E), then, for all p in [1, + infty[, (X, ||·||_X) admits a simultaneously uniform and coarse embedding into (l_p(E), ||·||_p), and that, if, in addition, we assume that f maps into a bounded set, then (X, ||·||_X) also admits a uniformly continuous coarse embedding into (ExE, ||·||_(ExE)). On the other hand, in chapter 6, we focus our attention on the class of left-invariant coarse structures on groups. In the first section, we show how a left-invariant coarse structure on a group (G, · ) can be described in terms of a certain ideal on G, and vice versa. After that, we use this result to characterize the left-coarse structure E_L of a topological group (G, · , T) in terms of the collection of the coarsely bounded sets of (G, E_L) and, with this, we prove that the left-coarse structure associated with the additive group of a normed space is simply the bounded coarse structure induced by its norm.