The connectedness percolation threshold (phi(c)) for spherically symmetric, randomly distributed fractal aggregates is investigated as a function of the fractal dimension (d(F)) of the aggregates through a mean-field approach. A pair of aggregates (each of ...
Let F-q be a finite field of q elements, where q is a large odd prime power and Q = a(1)x(1)(c1) + ..... + a(d)x(d)(cd) is an element of F-q[x(1) ,...,x(d)], where 2
We study time and space equivariant wave maps from M×R→S2, where M is dieomorphic to a two dimensional sphere and admits an action of SO(2) by isometries. We assume that metric on M can be written as $dr^2+f^2(r)d\theta ...
We analyze the critical connectivity of systems of penetrable d-dimensional spheres having size distributions in terms of weighed random geometrical graphs, in which vertex coordinates correspond to random positions of the sphere centers, and edges are for ...
This thesis is a study of wave maps from a curved background to the standard two dimensional sphere S2. The target is always assumed to be embedded in R3 in the standard way. The do- main manifold (the "curved background") will be diffeomorphic to S2 × R, ...
This thesis concerns optimal packing problems of tubes, or thick curves, where thickness is defined as follows. Three points on a closed space curve define a circle. Taking the infimum over all radii of pairwise-distinct point triples defines the thickness ...