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Graham's Variety And Perverse Sheaves On The Nilpotent Cone, Amber Russell
Graham's Variety And Perverse Sheaves On The Nilpotent Cone, Amber Russell
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In recent work, Graham has defined a variety which maps to the nilpotent cone, and which shares many properties with the Springer resolution. However, Graham's map is not an isomorphism over the principal orbit, and for type A in particular, its fibers have a nice relationship with the fundamental groups of the nilpotent orbits. The goal of this dissertation is to determine which simple perverse sheaves appear when the Decomposition Theorem for perverse sheaves is applied in Graham's setting for type A, and to begin to answer this question in the other types as well. In Chapter 1, we give …
Subgradient Formulas For Optimal Control Problems With Constant Dynamics, Lingyan Huang
Subgradient Formulas For Optimal Control Problems With Constant Dynamics, Lingyan Huang
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this thesis our fi_x000C_rst concern is the study of the minimal time function corresponding to control problems with constant convex dynamics and closed target sets. Unlike previous work in this area, we do not make any nonempty interior or calmness assumptions and the minimal time functions is generally non-Lipschitzian. We show that the Proximal and Fréchet subgradients of the minimal time function are computed in terms of normal vectors to level sets. And we also computed the subgradients of the minimal time function in terms of the F-projection. Secondly, we consider the value function for Bolza Problem in optimal …
C0 Interior Penalty Methods For Cahn-Hilliard Equations, Shiyuan Gu
C0 Interior Penalty Methods For Cahn-Hilliard Equations, Shiyuan Gu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this work we study C0 interior penalty methods for Cahn-Hilliard equations. In Chapter 1 we introduce Cahn-Hilliard equations and the time discretization that leads to linear fourth order boundary value problems. In Chapter 2 we review related fundamentals of finite element methods and multigrid methods. In Chapter 3 we formulate the discrete problems for linear fourth order boundary value problems with the boundary conditions of the Cahn-Hilliard type, which are called C0 interior penalty methods, and we carry out the convergence analysis. In Chapter 4 we consider multigrid methods for the C0 interior penalty methods. We present two smoothing …
Operational Methods For Evolution Equations, Lee Gregory Windsperger
Operational Methods For Evolution Equations, Lee Gregory Windsperger
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation refines and further develops numerical methods for the inversion of the classical Laplace transform and explores the effectiveness of these methods when applied (a) to an asymptotic generalization of the Laplace transform for generalized functions and (b) to the numerical approximation of solutions of ill-posed evolution equations (e.g. backwards in time problems).
Chapter 1 of the dissertation reviews some of the key features of asymptotic Laplace transform theory and its application to evolution equations. Although some of the statements and results contain slight modifications and improvements, the material presented in Chapter 1 is known …
On The Witt Groups Of Schemes, Jeremy Allen Jacobson
On The Witt Groups Of Schemes, Jeremy Allen Jacobson
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
We consider two questions about the Witt groups of schemes: the first is the question of finite generation of the shifted Witt groups of a smooth variety over a finite field; the second is the Gersten conjecture. Regarding the first, we prove that the shifted Witt groups of curves and surfaces are finite, and that finite generation of the motivic cohomology groups with mod 2 coefficients implies finite generation of the Witt groups. Regarding the second, we prove the Gersten conjecture for the Witt groups in the case of a local ring that is essentially smooth over a discrete valuation …
The Head And Tail Conjecture For Alternating Knots, Cody Armond
The Head And Tail Conjecture For Alternating Knots, Cody Armond
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The colored Jones polynomial is an invariant of knots and links, which produces a sequence of Laurent polynomials. In this work, we study new power series link invariants, derived from the colored Jones polynomial, called its head and tail. We begin with a brief survey of knot theory and the colored Jones polynomial in particular. In Chapter 3, we use skein theory to prove that for adequate links, the n-th leading coefficient of the N-th colored Jones polynomial stabilizes when viewed as a sequence in N. This property allows us to define the head and tail for adequate links. In …
Some Tracking Problems For Aerospace Models With Input Constraints, Aleksandra Gruszka
Some Tracking Problems For Aerospace Models With Input Constraints, Aleksandra Gruszka
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
We study tracking controller design problems for key models of planar vertical takeoff and landing (PVTOL) aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The novelty of our PVTOL work is the global boundedness of our controllers in the decoupled coordinates, the positive uniform lower bound on the thrust controller, the applicability of our work to cases where the velocity measurements may not be available, the uniform global asymptotic stability and uniform local exponential stability of our closed loop tracking dynamics, the generality of our class of trackable reference trajectories, and the input-to-state stability of the controller performance under actuator errors of …
A Numerical Investigation Of Apéry-Like Recursions And Related Picard-Fuchs Equations, Maiia J. Bakhova
A Numerical Investigation Of Apéry-Like Recursions And Related Picard-Fuchs Equations, Maiia J. Bakhova
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this work we investigate a generalization of a recursion which was used by Apery in his proof of irrationality of the zeta function values at 2 and 3. It is a continuation of the work of Zagier , who considered generalization of the first equation and numerically investigated it. The study is made for two generalizations of the second equation, one used the mirror symmetry idea from the theory of Calabi-Yau varieties and another worked with recursion. There were discovered connections between them.
Resonance And Double Negative Behavior In Metamaterials, Yue Chen
Resonance And Double Negative Behavior In Metamaterials, Yue Chen
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this work, a generic class of metamaterials is introduced and is shown to exhibit frequency dependent double negative effective properties. We develop a rigorous method for calculating the frequency intervals where either double negative or double positive effective properties appear and show how these intervals imply the existence of propagating Bloch waves inside sub-wavelength structures. The branches of the dispersion relation associated with Bloch modes are shown to be explicitly determined by the Dirichlet spectrum of the high dielectric phase and the generalized electrostatic spectra of the complement. For numerical purposes, we consider a metamaterial constructed from a sub-wavelength …
The New Stochastic Integral And Anticipating Stochastic Differential Equations, Benedykt Szozda
The New Stochastic Integral And Anticipating Stochastic Differential Equations, Benedykt Szozda
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this work, we develop further the theory of stochastic integration of adapted and instantly independent stochastic processes started by Wided Ayed and Hui-Hsiung Kuo in [1,2]. We provide a first counterpart to the Itô isometry that accounts for both adapted and instantly independent processes. We also present several Itô formulas for the new stochastic integral. Finally, we apply the new Itô formula to solve a linear stochastic differential equations with anticipating initial conditions.
Hypercube Diagrams For Knots, Links, And Knotted Tori, Ben Mccarty
Hypercube Diagrams For Knots, Links, And Knotted Tori, Ben Mccarty
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
For a knot K the cube number is a knot invariant defined to be the smallest n for which there is a cube diagram of size n for K. Examples of knots for which the cube number detects chirality are presented. There is also a Legendrian version of this invariant called the Legendrian cube number. We will show that the Legendrian cube number distinguishes the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and maximal rotation number from the Legendrian left hand torus knots with maximal Thurston-Bennequin number and minimal rotation number. Finally, there is a generalization of cube …
Paley-Wiener Theorem For Line Bundles Over Compact Symmetric Spaces, Vivian Mankau Ho
Paley-Wiener Theorem For Line Bundles Over Compact Symmetric Spaces, Vivian Mankau Ho
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
We generalize a Paley-Wiener theorem to homogeneous line bundles $L_\chi$ on a compact symmetric space U/K with $\chi$ a nontrivial character of K. The Fourier coefficients of a $\chi$-bi-coinvariant function f on U are defined by integration of f against the elementary spherical functions of type $\chi$ on U, depending on a spectral parameter $\mu$, which in turn parametrizes the $\chi$-spherical representations $\pi$ of U. The Paley-Wiener theorem characterizes f with sufficiently small support in terms of holomorphic extendability and exponential growth of their $\chi$-spherical Fourier transforms. We generalize Opdam's estimate for the hypergeometric functions in a bigger domain with …
Mathematical Models For Interest Rate Dynamics, Xiaoxue Shan
Mathematical Models For Interest Rate Dynamics, Xiaoxue Shan
LSU Master's Theses
We present a study of mathematical models of interest rate products. After an introduction to the mathematical framework, we study several basic one-factor models, and then explore multifactor models. We also discuss the Heath-Jarrow- Morton model and the LIBOR Market model. We conclude with a discussion of some modified models that involve stochastic volatility.