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Oscillation Of Quenched Slowdown Asymptotics Of Random Walks In Random Environment In Z, Sung Won Ahn
Oscillation Of Quenched Slowdown Asymptotics Of Random Walks In Random Environment In Z, Sung Won Ahn
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We consider a one dimensional random walk in a random environment (RWRE) with a positive speed limn→∞ (Xn/) = υα > 0. Gantert and Zeitouni showed that if the environment has both positive and negative local drifts then the quenched slowdown probabilities P ω(Xn < xn) with x∈ (0,υα) decay approximately like exp{- n1-1/s} for a deterministic s > 1. More precisely, they showed that n -γ log Pω(Xn < xn) converges to 0 or -∞ depending on whether γ > 1 - 1/s or γ < 1 - 1/ s. In this paper, …
Connecting Models Of Configuration Spaces: From Double Loops To Strings, Jason M. Lucas
Connecting Models Of Configuration Spaces: From Double Loops To Strings, Jason M. Lucas
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Foundational to the subject of operad theory is the notion of an En operad, that is, an operad that is quasi-isomorphic to the operad of little n-cubes Cn. They are central to the study of iterated loop spaces, and the specific case of n = 2 is key in the solution of the Deligne Conjecture. In this paper we examine the connection between two E 2 operads, namely the little 2-cubes operad C 2 itself and the operad of spineless cacti. To this end, we construct a new suboperad of C2, which we name the operad of tethered …
Rees Algebras And Iterated Jacobian Duals, Vivek Mukundan
Rees Algebras And Iterated Jacobian Duals, Vivek Mukundan
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Consider the rational map Ψ : [Special characters omitted.] where the fi's are homogeneous forms of the same degree in the homogeneous coordinate ring R = k[ x1,…,xd] of [Special characters omitted.]. Assume that I = (f 1,…,fm) is a height 2 perfect ideal in the polynomial ring R. In this context, the coordinate ring of the graph of Ψ is the Rees algebra of I and the co-ordinate ring of the image of Ψ is the special fiber ring. We study two settings. The first setting is when I is almost …
Martingales, Singular Integrals, And Fourier Multipliers, Michael A. Perlmutter
Martingales, Singular Integrals, And Fourier Multipliers, Michael A. Perlmutter
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Many probabilistic constructions have been created to study the Lp-boundedness, 1 < p < ∞, of singular integrals and Fourier multipliers. We will use a combination of analytic and probabilistic methods to study analytic properties of these constructions and obtain results which cannot be obtained using probability alone.
In particular, we will show that a large class of operators, including many that are obtained as the projection of martingale transforms with respect to the background radiation process of Gundy and Varapolous or with respect to space-time Brownian motion, satisfy the assumptions of Calderón-Zygmund theory and therefore boundedly map L1 to weak- L1.
We will also use a method of rotations to study the L p boundedness, 1 < p < ∞, of Fourier multipliers which are obtained as the projections of martingale transforms with respect to symmetric α-stable processes, 0 < α < 2. Our proof does not use the fact that 0 < α < 2 and therefore allows us to obtain a larger class of multipliers, indexed by a parameter, 0 < r < ∞, which are bounded on L p. As in the case of the multipliers which arise as the projection of martingale …
Extreme-Strike And Small-Time Asymptotics For Gaussian Stochastic Volatility Models, Xin Zhang
Extreme-Strike And Small-Time Asymptotics For Gaussian Stochastic Volatility Models, Xin Zhang
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Asymptotic behavior of implied volatility is of our interest in this dissertation. For extreme strike, we consider a stochastic volatility asset price model in which the volatility is the absolute value of a continuous Gaussian process with arbitrary prescribed mean and covariance. By exhibiting a Karhunen-Loève expansion for the integrated variance, and using sharp estimates of the density of a general second-chaos variable, we derive asymptotics for the asset price density for large or small values of the variable, and study the wing behavior of the implied volatility in these models. Our main result provides explicit expressions for the first …
Applications Of The Homotopy Analysis Method To Optimal Control Problems, Shubham Singh
Applications Of The Homotopy Analysis Method To Optimal Control Problems, Shubham Singh
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Traditionally, trajectory optimization for aerospace applications has been performed using either direct or indirect methods. Indirect methods produce highly accurate solutions but suer from a small convergence region, requiring initial guesses close to the optimal solution. In past two decades, a new series of analytical approximation methods have been used for solving systems of dierential equations and boundary value problems.
The Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) is one such method which has been used to solve typical boundary value problems in nance, science, and engineering. In this investigation, a methodology is created to solve indirect trajectory optimization problems using the Homotopy …
Maximum Empirical Likelihood Estimation In U-Statistics Based General Estimating Equations, Lingnan Li
Maximum Empirical Likelihood Estimation In U-Statistics Based General Estimating Equations, Lingnan Li
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In the first part of this thesis, we study maximum empirical likelihood estimates (MELE's) in U-statistics based general estimating equations (UGEE's). Our technical maneuver is the jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) approach. We give the local uniform asymptotic normality condition for the log-JEL for UGEE's. We derive the estimating equations for finding MELE's and provide their asymptotic normality. We obtain easy MELE's which have less computational burden than the usual MELE's and can be easily implemented using existing software. We investigate the use of side information of the data to improve efficiency. We exhibit that the MELE's are fully efficient, and …
Mathematical Models Of Ebola Virus Disease And Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Yinqiang Zheng
Mathematical Models Of Ebola Virus Disease And Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Yinqiang Zheng
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This thesis focuses on applying mathematical models to studies on the transmission dynamics and control interventions of infectious diseases such as Ebola virus disease and vaccine preventable diseases.
Many models in studies of Ebola transmission are based on the model by Legrand et al. (2007). However, there are potential issues with the Legrand model. First, the model was originally formulated in a complex form, leading to confusion and hindering its uses in practice. To overcome the difficulty, the Legrand model is reformulated in a much simpler but equivalent form in this thesis. The reformulated model also provides an intuitive understanding …
Homological Properties Of Determinantal Arrangements, Arnold H. Yim
Homological Properties Of Determinantal Arrangements, Arnold H. Yim
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We study a certain family of hypersurface arrangements known as determinantal arrangements. Determinantal arrangements are a union of varieties defined by minors of a matrix of indeterminates. In particular, we investigate determinantal arrangements using the 2-minors of a 2 × n generic matrix (which can be thought of as natural extensions of braid arrangements), and prove certain statements about their freeness. We also study the topology of these objects. We construct a fibration for the complement of free determinantal arrangements, and use this fibration to prove statements about their homotopy groups. Furthermore, we show that the Poincaré polynomial of the …
Kernels Of Adjoints Of Composition Operators On Hilbert Spaces Of Analytic Functions, Brittney Rachele Miller
Kernels Of Adjoints Of Composition Operators On Hilbert Spaces Of Analytic Functions, Brittney Rachele Miller
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This thesis contains a collection of results in the study of the adjoint of a composition operator and its kernel in weighted Hardy spaces, in particular, the classical Hardy, Bergman, and Dirichlet spaces. In 2006, Cowen and Gallardo-Gutiérrez laid the groundwork for an explicit formula for the adjoint of a composition operator with rational symbol acting on the Hardy space, and in 2008, Hammond, Moorhouse, and Robbins established such a formula. In 2014, Goshabulaghi and Vaezi obtained analogous formulas for the adjoint of a composition operator in the Bergman and Dirichlet spaces. While it is known that the kernel of …
Monotonicity Formulas For Diffusion Operators On Manifolds And Carnot Groups, Heat Kernel Asymptotics And Wiener's Criterion On Heisenberg-Type Groups, Kevin L. Rotz
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The contents of this thesis are an assortment of results in analysis and subRiemannian geometry, with a special focus on the Heisenberg group Hn, Heisenbergtype (H-type) groups, and Carnot groups.
As we wish for this thesis to be relatively self-contained, the main definitions and background are covered in Chapter 1. This includes basic information about Carnot groups, Hn, H-type groups, diffusion operators, and the curvature dimension inequality.
Chapter 2 incorporates excerpts from a paper by N. Garofalo and the author, [42]. In it, we propose a generalization of Almgren’s frequency function N : (0, 1) → R for solutions to …
Finite Dimensional Approximations And Deformations Of Group C*-Algebras, Andrew James Schneider
Finite Dimensional Approximations And Deformations Of Group C*-Algebras, Andrew James Schneider
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Quasidiagonality is a finite-dimensional approximation property of a C*-algebra which indicates that it has matricial approximations that capture the structure of the C*-algebra. We investigate when C*-algebras associated to discrete groups have such a property with particular emphasis on finding obstructions. In particular, we point out that groups with Kazhdan's Property (T) and only finitely many unitary equivalence classes of finite dimensional representations do not produce quasidiagonal C*-algebras. We then observe and note interactions with Property (T) and other approximation properties.
Property (QH) is a related but stronger approximation property with deep connections to E-Theory and …
Regularity Of Solutions And The Free Boundary For A Class Of Bernoulli-Type Parabolic Free Boundary Problems With Variable Coefficients, Thomas H. Backing
Regularity Of Solutions And The Free Boundary For A Class Of Bernoulli-Type Parabolic Free Boundary Problems With Variable Coefficients, Thomas H. Backing
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In this work the regularity of solutions and of the free boundary for a type of parabolic free boundary problem with variable coefficients is proved. After introducing the problem and its history in the introduction, we proceed in Chapter 2 to prove the optimal Lipschitz regularity of viscosity solutions under the main assumption that the free boundary is Lipschitz. In Chapter 3, we prove that Lipschitz free boundaries possess a classical normal in both space and time at each point and that this normal varies with a Hölder modulus of continuity. As a consequence, the viscosity solution is in fact …
Rank Constrained Homotopies Of Matrices And The Blackadar-Handelman Conjectures On C*-Algebras, Kaushika De Silva
Rank Constrained Homotopies Of Matrices And The Blackadar-Handelman Conjectures On C*-Algebras, Kaushika De Silva
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Rank constrained homotopies of matrices:
For any n ≥ k ≥ l ∈ N, let S( n,k,l) be the set of all non-negative definite matrices a ∈ Mn(C) with l ≤ rank a ≤ k. We investigate homotopy equivalence of continuous maps from a compact Hausdorff space X into sets of the form S(n,k,l). From [37] it is known that for any n, if 4dim X ≤ k-l where dim X denote the covering dimension of X, then there is exactly one homotopy class of maps from X into S …