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    Mean Curvature Flow with a Neumann Boundary Condition in Flat Spaces

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    In this thesis I study mean curvature flow in both Euclidean and Minkowski space with a Neumann boundary condition. In Minkowski space I show that for a convex timelike cone boundary condition, with compatible spacelike initial data, mean curvature flow with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition exists for all time. Furthermore, by a blowdown argument I show convergence as t →∞ to a homothetically expanding hyperbolic hyperplane. I also study the case of graphs over convex domains in Minkowski space. I obtain long time existence for spacelike initial graphs which are taken by mean curvature flow with a Neumann boundary condition to a constant function as t →∞. In Euclidean space I consider boundary manifolds that are rotational tori where I write t for the unit vector field in the direction of the rotation. If the initial manifold M₀ is compatible with the boundary condition, and at no point has t as a tangent vector, then mean curvature flow with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition exists for all time and converges to a flat cross-section of the boundary torus. I also discuss other constant angle boundary conditions

    Three nontrivial solutions for the p-Laplacian Neumann problems with a concave nonlinearity near the origin

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    We consider a nonlinear Neumann problem driven by the p- Laplacian, with a right-hand side nonlinearity which is concave near the origin. Using variational techniques, combined with the method of upper-lower solutions and with Morse theory, we show that the problem has at least three nontrivial smooth solutions, two of which have a constant sign (one positive and one negative).FCTPOCI/MAT/55524/200

    Álgebras de von Neumann - fatores

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    Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática e Computação Científica, Florianópolis, 2011Dada uma álgebra de von Neumann M em L(H), onde L(H) é o espaço dos operadores lineares e limitados sobre um espaço de Hilbert H, dizemos que M é um fator se seu centro consiste somente por múltiplos escalares do operador identidade de L(H). Quando M é um fator, podemos classificá-lo em tipo I, II e III. Além disso, o tipo II pode ser dividido em dois sub-tipos. O objetivo dessa dissertação é exibir exemplos de fatores, bem como exemplos dos tipos I, II e seus sub-tipos

    The Neumann problem for quasilinear differential equations

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    summary:In this note we prove the existence of extremal solutions of the quasilinear Neumann problem (x(t)p2x(t))=f(t,x(t),x(t))-( \vert x^{^{\prime }}(t) \vert ^{p-2}x^{^{\prime }}(t))^{^{\prime }} = f(t,x(t),x ^{^{\prime }}(t)), a.e. on TT, x(0)=x(b)=0x^{^{\prime }}(0) = x^{^{\prime }}(b) =0, 2p<2\le p < \infty in the order interval [ψ,φ][\psi ,\varphi ], where ψ\psi and φ\varphi are respectively a lower and an upper solution of the Neumann problem

    Chemical electric field effects in biological macromolecules

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    Neumann E. Chemical electric field effects in biological macromolecules. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 1986;47(3):197-231

    The electroporation hysteresis

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    Neumann E. The electroporation hysteresis. Ferroelectrics. 1988;86(1):325-333

    The von Neumann Model and the Early Models of General Equilibrium

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    The paper reconstructs the von Neumann model, comments on its salient features and critically reviews some of its generalisations. The issues related to thetreatment of consumption, decomposability and uniqueness of the rate of growth and interest will be especially scrutinised. The most prominent models of general equilibrium that appeared before or roughly at the same time as von Neumann's model will be also reviewed in the paper and compared with it. It will be demonstrated that none of them had any noticeable influence on von Neumann's model, which is genuinely distinct, ideologically free and methodologically fresh and forward-looking. It will be argued that the model can be viewed as a brilliant mathematical metaphor of some deep-rooted old vision, pertaining to the core issues of commodity production

    Microscopic collective dynamics in liquid neon-deuterium mixtures: Inelastic neutron scattering and quantum simulations

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    In this paper a combined neutron scattering and quantum simulation study of the collective dynamics in liquid Ne-D2 mixtures, at a temperature of T = 30 K and in the wave-vector transfer range 4 nm???1 &lt; q &lt; 51 nm???1, is presented. Two D2 concentrations are investigated, one close to 25% molar and the other close to 50% molar, together with pure Ne. The dynamic structure factor for the centers of mass of the two molecular species is extracted from the neutron scattering data and subsequently compared with that obtained from three different quantum simulation methods, such as ring polymer molecular dynamics and two slightly different versions of the Feynman-Kleinert approach. A general agreement is found, even though some discrepancies both among simulations, and between simulations and experimental data, can be observed. In order to clarify the physical meaning of the present spectroscopic results, an analysis of the longitudinal current spectral maxima is carried out showing the peculiarities of the D2 center-of-mass dynamics in these mixtures. A comparison with the centroid molecular dynamics results obtained for the D2 center-of-mass self-dynamics in the same liquid mixtures is finally proposed

    On The Two Dimensional Gierer-Meinhardt system with strong coupling

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    We construct solutions with a single interior condensation point for the two-dimensional Gierer-Meinhardt system with strong coupling. The condensation point is located at a nondegenerate critical point of the diagonal part of the regular part of the Green's function for -\Delta +1 nder the Neumann boundary condition. Our method is based on Liapunov-Schmidt reduction for a system of elliptic equations

    Nonlocal problems with Neumann boundary conditions

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    We introduce a new Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian arising from a simple probabilistic consideration, and we discuss the basic properties of this model. We can consider both elliptic and parabolic equations in any domain. In addition, we formulate problems with nonhomogeneous Neumann conditions, and also with mixed Dirichlet and Neumann conditions, all of them having a clear probabilistic interpretation. We prove that solutions to the fractional heat equation with homogeneous Neumann conditions have the following natural properties: conservation of mass inside ω, decreasing energy, and convergence to a constant as t→∞. Moreover, for the elliptic case we give the variational formulation of the problem, and establish existence of solutions. We also study the limit properties and the boundary behavior induced by this nonlocal Neumann condition. For concreteness, one may think that our nonlocal analogue of the classical Neumann condition ∂νu = 0 on ∂ω consists in the nonlocal prescription ∫ ω u(x) - u(y)/|x - y|n+2s dy = 0 for x ∈ Rn \ ω. We made an effort to keep all the arguments at the simplest possible technical level, in order to clarify the connections between the different scientific fields that are naturally involved in the problem, and make the paper accessible also to a wide, non-specialistic public (for this scope, we also tried to use and compare different concepts and notations in a somehow more unified way)
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