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New Bilinear Estimates For Quadratic-Derivative Nonlinear Wave Equations In 2+1 Dimensions, Allison J. Tanguay Sep 2012

New Bilinear Estimates For Quadratic-Derivative Nonlinear Wave Equations In 2+1 Dimensions, Allison J. Tanguay

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This thesis is concerned with the Cauchy problem for the quadratic derivative nonlinear wave equation in two spatial dimensions. Using standard techniques, we reduce local well-posedness in Fourier Lebesgue spaces to bilinear estimates in associated wave Fourier Lebesgue spaces, for which we prove new product estimates. These estimates then allow us to establish local well-posedness in a parameter range that gives improvement over previously known results on the Sobolev scale.


Local Torsion On Abelian Surfaces, Adam Gamzon May 2012

Local Torsion On Abelian Surfaces, Adam Gamzon

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Fix an integer d > 0. In 2008, Chantal David and Tom Weston showed that, on average, an elliptic curve over Q picks up a nontrivial p-torsion point defined over a finite extension K of the p-adics of degree at most d for only finitely many primes p. This dissertation is an extension of that work, investigating the frequency with which a principally polarized abelian surface A over Q with real multiplication by Q adjoin a squared-root of 5 has a nontrivial p-torsion point defined over K. Averaging by height, the main result shows that A …