A Nash-Moser implicit function theorem with Whitney regularity and applications

dc.contributor.advisorLlave, Rafael de laen
dc.creatorVano, John Andrewen
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-28T21:43:06Zen
dc.date.available2008-08-28T21:43:06Zen
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation establishes the Whitney regularity with respect to parameters of implicit functions obtained from a Nash-Moser implicit function theorem. As an application of this result, we study the problem of wave propagation in resonating cavities. Using a modification of the general setup in [Zeh75], we consider functionals F : U × V → Z which have an approximate right inverse R : C × V → L(Z, Y ). Here U ⊆ X and V ⊆ Y are open sets of scales of Banach spaces (scale parameters are suppressed here for brevity) and C ⊆ U is an arbitrary set of parameters (in applications C is often a Cantor set). Under appropriate hypothesis on F, which are natural extensions of [Zeh75], we show that given (x0, y0) with F(x0, y0) = 0 for x ∈ C near x0 there exists a function g(x), Whitney regular with respect to x, which satisfies F(x, g(x)) = 0. The problem of wave propagation in a cavity with (quasi-periodically) moving boundary can be reduced to the study of a family of torus maps. Because of their extremely degenerate nature, this family is not covered by known versions of KAM theory. However, our implicit function theorem approach allows us to overcome these problems and prove a degenerate KAM theory. Our approach can also be applied to other problems of current interest.
dc.description.departmentMathematicsen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifierb57270193en
dc.identifier.oclc57122133en
dc.identifier.proqst3108528en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/1020en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.subject.lcshImplicit functionsen
dc.subject.lcshFunctional analysisen
dc.titleA Nash-Moser implicit function theorem with Whitney regularity and applicationsen
dc.type.genreThesisen

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