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Methods Of Music Classification And Transcription, Jonathan Peter Baker
Methods Of Music Classification And Transcription, Jonathan Peter Baker
Theses and Dissertations
We begin with an overview of some signal processing terms and topics relevant to music analysis including facts about human sound perception. We then discuss common objectives of music analysis and existing methods for accomplishing them. We conclude with an introduction to a new method of automatically transcribing a piece of music from a digital audio signal.
A Maple Program For Computing Landau-Ginzburg A- And B-Models And An Exploration Of Mirror Symmetry, Evan D. Merrell
A Maple Program For Computing Landau-Ginzburg A- And B-Models And An Exploration Of Mirror Symmetry, Evan D. Merrell
Theses and Dissertations
Mirror symmetry has been a significant area of research for geometry and physics for over two decades. Berglund and Hubsch proposed that for a certain family of singularities W, the so called "transposed" singularity WT should be the mirror partner of W. cite{BH} The techniques for constructing the orbifold LG models to test this conjecture were developed by FJR in cite{FJR} with a cohomological field theory generalized from the study of r-spin curves. The duality of LG A- and B-models became more elaborate when Krawitz cite{Krawitz} generalized the Intriligator-Vafa orbifold B-model to include contributions from more than one sector.This thesis …
Total Character Groups, Chelsea Lorraine Kennedy
Total Character Groups, Chelsea Lorraine Kennedy
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The total character of a finite group G is the sum of the irreducible characters of G. When the total character of a finite group can be written as a monic polynomial with integer coefficients in an irreducible character of G, we say that G is a total character group. In this thesis we examine the total character of the dicyclic group of order 4n, the non-abelian groups of order p^3, and the symmetric group on n elements for all n ≥ 1. The dicyclic group of order 4n is a total character group precisely when n is congruent to …
K-S-Rings, Emma Louise Turner
K-S-Rings, Emma Louise Turner
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For a finite group G we study certain rings called k-S-rings, one for each non-negative integer k, where the 1-S-ring is the centralizer ring of G. These rings have the property that the (k+1)-S-ring determines the k-S-ring. We show that the 4-S-ring determines G when G is any group with finite classes. We show that the 3-S-ring determines G for any finite group G, thus giving an answer to a question of Brauer. We show the 2-characters defined by Frobenius and the extended 2-characters of Ken Johnson are characters of representations of the 2-S-ring of G. We find the character …
Unknotting Tunnels Of Hyperbolic Tunnel Number N Manifolds, Stephan Daniel Burton
Unknotting Tunnels Of Hyperbolic Tunnel Number N Manifolds, Stephan Daniel Burton
Theses and Dissertations
Adams conjectured that unknotting tunnels of tunnel number 1 manifolds are always isotopic to a geodesic. We generalize this question to tunnel number n manifolds. We find that there exist complete hyperbolic structures and a choice of spine of a compression body with genus 1 negative boundary and genus n ≥ 3 outer boundary for which (n−2) edges of the spine self-intersect. We use this to show that there exist finite volume one-cusped hyperbolic manifolds with a system of n tunnels for which (n−1) of the tunnels are homotopic to geodesics arbitrarily close to self-intersecting. This gives evidence that the …
Spread Option Pricing With Stochastic Interest Rate, Yi Luo
Spread Option Pricing With Stochastic Interest Rate, Yi Luo
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In this dissertation, we investigate the spread option pricing problem with stochastic interest rate. First, we will review the basic concept and theories of stochastic calculus, give an introduction of spread options and provide some examples of spread options in different markets. We will also review the market efficiency theory, arbitrage and assumptions that are commonly used in mathematical finance. In Chapter 3, we will review existing spread pricing models and term-structure models such as Vasicek Mode, and the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework. In Chapter 4, we will use the martingale approach to derive a partial differential equation for the price of …
Persistence And Foliation Theory And Their Application To Geometric Singular Perturbation, Ji Li
Persistence And Foliation Theory And Their Application To Geometric Singular Perturbation, Ji Li
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Persistence problem of compact invariant manifold under random perturbation is considered in this dissertation. Under uniformly small random perturbation and the condition of normal hyperbolicity, the original invariant manifold persists and becomes a random invariant manifold. The random counterpart has random local stable and unstable manifolds. They could be invariantly foliated thanks to the normal hyperbolicity. Those underlie an extension of the geometric singular perturbation theory to the random case which means the slow manifold persists and becomes a random manifold so that the local global structure near the slow manifold persists under singular perturbation. A normal form for a …
New Computational Techniques In Fjrw Theory With Applications To Landau Ginzburg Mirror Symmetry, Amanda Francis
New Computational Techniques In Fjrw Theory With Applications To Landau Ginzburg Mirror Symmetry, Amanda Francis
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Mirror symmetry is a phenomenon from physics that has inspired a lot of interesting mathematics. In the Landau-Ginzburg setting, we have two constructions, the A and B models, which are created based on a choice of an affine singularity with a group of symmetries. Both models are vector spaces equipped with multiplication and a pairing (making them Frobenius algebras), and they are also Frobenius manifolds. We give a result relating stabilization of singularities in classical singularity to its counterpart in the Landau-Ginzburg setting. The A model comes from so-called FJRW theory and can be de fined up to a full …
Diagonal Entry Restrictions In Minimum Rank Matrices, And The Inverse Inertia And Eigenvalue Problems For Graphs, Curtis G. Nelson
Diagonal Entry Restrictions In Minimum Rank Matrices, And The Inverse Inertia And Eigenvalue Problems For Graphs, Curtis G. Nelson
Theses and Dissertations
Let F be a field, let G be an undirected graph on n vertices, and let SF(G) be the set of all F-valued symmetric n x n matrices whose nonzero off-diagonal entries occur in exactly the positions corresponding to the edges of G. Let MRF(G) be defined as the set of matrices in SF(G) whose rank achieves the minimum of the ranks of matrices in SF(G). We develop techniques involving Z-hat, a process termed nil forcing, and induced subgraphs, that can determine when diagonal entries corresponding to specific vertices of G must be zero or nonzero for all matrices in …
Weak Cayley Table Isomorphisms, Long Pham Bao Nguyen
Weak Cayley Table Isomorphisms, Long Pham Bao Nguyen
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We investigate weak Cayley table isomorphisms, a generalization of group isomorphisms. Suppose G and H are groups. A bijective map phi : G to H is a weak Cayley table isomorphism if it satisfies two conditions:(1) If x is conjugate to y, then phi(x) is conjugate to phi(y); (2) For all x, y in G, phi(xy) is conjugate to phi(x)phi(y).If there exists a weak Cayley table isomorphism between two groups, then we say that the two groups have the same weak Cayley table.This dissertation has two main goals. First, we wish to find sufficient conditions under which two groups have …
Quadratic Spline Approximation Of The Newsvendor Problem Optimal Cost Function, Christina Marie Burton
Quadratic Spline Approximation Of The Newsvendor Problem Optimal Cost Function, Christina Marie Burton
Theses and Dissertations
We consider a single-product dynamic inventory problem where the demand distributions in each period are known and independent but with density. We assume the lead time and the fixed cost for ordering are zero and that there are no capacity constraints. There is a holding cost and a backorder cost for unfulfilled demand, which is backlogged until it is filled by another order. The problem may be nonstationary, and in fact our approximation of the optimal cost function using splines is most advantageous when demand falls suddenly. In this case the myopic policy, which is most often used in practice …
Metacalibration In Geometric Optimization, Donald C. Sampson
Metacalibration In Geometric Optimization, Donald C. Sampson
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A introduction to metacalibration methods and their application. This includes a new proof of the double bubble conjecture, new results in the area of equitent problems (isoperimetric problems with boundary), and comments on a mapping conjecture.
Subdivision Rules, 3-Manifolds, And Circle Packings, Brian Craig Rushton
Subdivision Rules, 3-Manifolds, And Circle Packings, Brian Craig Rushton
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We study the relationship between subdivision rules, 3-dimensional manifolds, and circle packings. We find explicit subdivision rules for closed right-angled hyperbolic manifolds, a large family of hyperbolic manifolds with boundary, and all 3-manifolds of the E^3,H^2 x R, S^2 x R, SL_2(R), and S^3 geometries (up to finite covers). We define subdivision rules in all dimensions and find explicit subdivision rules for the n-dimensional torus as an example in each dimension. We define a graph and space at infinity for all subdivision rules, and use that to show that all subdivision rules for non-hyperbolic manifolds have mesh not going to …