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Stability In Dynamical Polysystems, George Cazacu
Stability In Dynamical Polysystems, George Cazacu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
A dynamical polysystem consists of a family of continuous dynamical systems, all acting on a given metric space. The first chapter of the present thesis shows a generalization of control systems via dynamical polysystems and establishes the equivalence of the two notions under certain lipschitz condition on the function defining the dynamics. The remaining chapters are focused on a basic theory of dynamical polysystems. Some topological properties of limit sets are described in Chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 provide characterizations for various notions of strong stability. Chapter 5 makes use of the theory of closed relations to study Lyapunov …
Zeta Functions Of Finite Graphs, Debra Czarneski
Zeta Functions Of Finite Graphs, Debra Czarneski
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Ihara introduced the zeta function of a finite graph in 1966 in the context of p-adic matrix groups. The idea was generalized to all finite graphs in 1989 by Hashimoto. We will introduce the zeta function from both perspectives and show the equivalence of both forms. We will discuss several properties of finite graphs that are determined by the zeta function and show by counterexample several properties of finite graphs that are not determined by the zeta function. We will also discuss the relationship between the zeta function of a finite graph and the spectrum of a finite graph.
Virtual Strings For Closed Curves With Multiple Components And Filamentations For Virtual Links, William Schellhorn
Virtual Strings For Closed Curves With Multiple Components And Filamentations For Virtual Links, William Schellhorn
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The theory of filaments on oriented chord diagrams can be used to detect some non-classical virtual knots. We extend existing filament techniques to virtual links with more than one component and give examples of virtual links that these techniques can detect as non-classical. Given a signed Gauss word underlying an oriented chord diagram, we describe how to construct a finite sequence of integers that encodes all of the filament information for the diagram. We also introduce a square array of integers called a MIN-square that summarizes the filament information about all of the signed Gauss words having a given Gauss …
Multiscale Strain Analysis, Timothy Donald Breitzman
Multiscale Strain Analysis, Timothy Donald Breitzman
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The mathematical homogenization and corrector theory relevant to prestressed heterogeneous materials in the linear-elastic regime is discussed. A suitable corrector theory is derived to reconstruct the local strain field inside the composite. Based on this theory, we develop an inexpensive numerical method for multi scale strain analysis within a prestressed heterogeneous material. The theory also provides a characterization of the macroscopic strength domain. The strength domain places constraints on the homogenized strain field which guarantee that the actual strain in the heterogeneous material lies inside the strength domain of each material participating in the structure.
Quasicontinuous Derivatives And Viscosity Functions, Rodica Cazacu
Quasicontinuous Derivatives And Viscosity Functions, Rodica Cazacu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this work we demonstrate how the continuous domain theory can be applied to the theory of nonlinear optimization, particularly to the theory of viscosity solutions. We consider finding the viscosity solution for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation H(x, y) = g(x), with continuous hamiltonian, but with possibly discontinuous right-hand side. We begin by finding a new function space Q(X,L), the space of equivalence classes of quasicontinuous functions from a locally compact set X to a bicontinuous lattice L and we will define on Q(X,L) the qo-topology, which is a variant of classical order topology defined on complete lattices. On this …
Dynamical Systems With Time Delay, Norma Ortiz
Dynamical Systems With Time Delay, Norma Ortiz
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, we study necessary conditions and weak invariance properties of dynamical systems with time delay. A number of results have been obtained recently that refine necessary conditions of optimal solutions for nonsmooth dynamical systems without time delay. In this dissertation, we examine the extension of some of these results to problems with time delay. In particular, we study the generalized problem of Bolza with the addition of delay in the state and velocity variables and refer to this problem as the Neutral Problem of Bolza. We consider the relationship between the generalized problem of Bolza with time delay …
Wavelet Sets With And Without Groups And Multiresolution Analysis, Mihaela Dobrescu
Wavelet Sets With And Without Groups And Multiresolution Analysis, Mihaela Dobrescu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation we study a special kind of wavelets, the so-called minimally supported frequency wavelets and the associated wavelet sets. Most of the examples of wavelet sets are for dilation sets which are groups. In this work we construct wavelet sets for which the dilation set, D, is of the form D=MN, where the product is direct, and so D is not necessarily group. In the second part of this dissertation we construct multiwavelets associated with MRA's and we generalize the rotations in the dilation sets to Coxeter groups.
Impulsive Systems, Stanislav Zabic
Impulsive Systems, Stanislav Zabic
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Impulsive systems arise when dynamics produce discontinuous trajectories. Discontinuties occur when movements of states happen over a small interval that resembles a point-mass measure. We adopt the formalism in which the controlled dynamic inclusion is the sum of a slow and a fast time velocities belonging to two distinct vector fields. Fast time velocities are controlled by a vector valued Borel measure. The trajectory of impulsive systems is a function of bounded variation. To give a definition of solutions, a notion of graph completion of the control measure is needed. In the nonimpulsive case, a solution can be defined as …
Error Estimates For Stabilized Approximation Methods For Semigroups, Sarah Campbell Mcallister
Error Estimates For Stabilized Approximation Methods For Semigroups, Sarah Campbell Mcallister
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this work we analyze error estimates for rational approximation methods, and their stabilizations, for strongly continuous semigroups. Chapter 1 consists of a brief survey of time discretization methods for semigroups. In Chapter 2, we demonstrate a new method for obtaining convergent approximations in the absence of stability for strongly continuous semigroups with arbitrary initial data. In Section 2.2, we state the stabilization result in more general form and show that this method can be used to improve known error estimates by a magnitude of up to one half for smooth initial data. In Section 2.3, we give concrete examples …
Dissipative Lipschitz Dynamics, Vinicio Rafael Rios
Dissipative Lipschitz Dynamics, Vinicio Rafael Rios
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation we study two related important issues in control theory: invariance of dynamical systems and Hamilton-Jacobi theory associated with optimal control theory. Given a control system modelled as a differential inclusion, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the strong invariance property of the system when the dynamic satisfies a dissipative Lipschitz condition. We show that when the dynamic is almost upper semicontinuous and satisfies the dissipative Lipschitz property, these conditions can be expressed in terms of approximate Hamilton-Jacobi inequalities, which subsumes the classic infinitesimal characterization of strongly invariant systems given under the Lipschitz assumtion. In the important …
Laguerre Functions Associated To Euclidean Jordan Algebras, Michael Aristidou
Laguerre Functions Associated To Euclidean Jordan Algebras, Michael Aristidou
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Certain differential recursion relations for the Laguerre functions, defined on a symmetric cone Ω, can be derived from the representations of a specific Lie algebra on L2(Ω,dμv). This Lie algebra is the corresponding Lie algebra of the Lie group G that acts on the tube domain T(Ω)=Ω+iV, where V is the associated Euclidean Jordan algebra of Ω. The representations involved are the highest weight representations of G on L2(Ω,dμv). To obtain these representations, we start from the highest weight representations of G on Hv(T(Ω)), the Hilbert space of holomorphic functions …