A census for curves and surfaces with diophantine stability over finite fields 

    Vrioni, Brikena (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

    An algebraic variety defined over a field is said to have Diophantine stability for an extension of this field if the variety does not acquire new points in the extension. Diophantine stability has a growing interest due ...

    A cotangent bundle Hamiltonian tube theorem and its applications in reduction theory 

    Teixidó Roman, Miguel (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)

    The Marle-Guillemin-Sternberg (MGS) model is an extremely important tool for the theory of Hamiltonian actions on symplectic manifolds. It has been extensively used to prove many local results both in symplectic geometry ...

    Algebraic and semi-algebraic phylogenetic reconstruction 

    Garrote López, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)

    Phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among groups of biological entities (called taxa). The modeling of those evolutionary processes is done by phylogenetic trees whose nodes represent ...

    Algebraic tools in phylogenomics. 

    Kedzierska, Anna Magdalena (Date of defense: 2012-03-16)

    En aquesta tesi interdisciplinar desenvolupem eines algebraiques per a problemes en filogenètica i genòmica. Per estudiar l'evolució molecular de les espècies sovint s'usen models evolutius estocàstics. L'evolució es ...

    Arithmetic applications of the Euler systems of Beilinson-Flach elements and diagonal cycles 

    Rivero Salgado, Óscar (Date of defense: 2021-02-12)

    The main objective of this dissertation is the exploration of certain arithmetic applications of the Euler systems of Beilinson--Flach elements and diagonal cycles. Euler systems have been proved to be a very powerful tool ...

    Aspectos geométricos del control disipativo de sistemas mecànicos y sistemas no holónomos 

    Yániz Fernández, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2002-11-29)

    El tratamiento intrínseco de cuestiones relacionadas con la Teoría de Control no lineal a través de la aplicación de técnicas propias de la geometría diferencial ha sido en los últimos años un tema de interés para muy ...

    Bernstein-Sato polynomial of plane curves and Yano's conjecture 

    Blanco Fernández, Guillem (Date of defense: 2020-04-16)

    The main aim of this thesis is the study of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial of plane curve singularities. In this context, we prove a conjecture posed by Yano about the generic b-exponents of a plane irreducible curve. In ...

    bm-Symplectic manifolds: symmetries, classification and stability 

    Planas Bahí, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)

    This thesis explores classification and perturbation problems for group actions on a class of Poisson manifolds called $b^m$-Poisson manifolds. $b^m$-Poisson manifolds are manifolds which are symplectic away from a ...

    Conformal n-dimensional bisection for local refinement of unstructured simplicial meshes 

    Belda Ferrín, Guillem (Date of defense: 2022-10-28)

    [English] In n-dimensional adaptive applications, conformal simplicial meshes must be lo cally modified. One systematic local modification is to bisect the prescribed simplices while surrounding simplices are bisected ...

    Contribució a l'estudi geomètric de subespais invariants respecte a transformacions i sistemes lineals 

    Compta Creus, Albert (Date of defense: 2001-10-19)

    Mitjançant tècniques geomètriques, abordem les qüestions següents:<br/><br/>(i) Estudi (caracterització, classificació, famílies diferenciables,...) d'una classe destacada de subespais invariants, els anomenats ...

    Descent in Lawson homology and morphic cohomology 

    Roig Maranges, Abdó (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)

    The traditional way to study algebraic cycles on an algebraic variety uses the Chow groups. However, in the beginnings of the 90's, Blaine Lawson and Eric Friedlander developed a different way to study algebraic cycles on ...

    Floer homology for 𝑏-symplectic manifolds 

    Brugués Mora, Joaquin (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)

    (English) In this thesis we investigate various aspects of the dynamics of Hamiltonian vector fields in singular symplectic manifolds. We concentrate on two questions: first, we investigate a generalization of the Arnold ...

    Generalized Delaunay triangulations : graph-theoretic properties and algorithms 

    Cano Vila, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2020-06-25)

    This thesis studies different generalizations of Delaunay triangulations, both from a combinatorial and algorithmic point of view. The Delaunay triangulation of a point set S, denoted DT(S), has vertex set S. An edge uv ...

    Geometrical aspects of contact mechanical systems and field theories 

    Rivas Guijarro, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)

    Many important theories in modern physics can be stated using the tools of differential geometry. It is well known that symplectic geometry is the natural framework to deal with autonomous Hamiltonian mechanics. This admits ...

    Geometrical structures of higher-order dynamical systems and field theories 

    Prieto Martínez, Pere Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)

    Geometrical physics is a relatively young branch of applied mathematics that was initiated by the 60's and the 70's when A. Lichnerowicz, W.M. Tulczyjew and J.M. Souriau, among many others, began to study various topics ...

    Global Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic manifolds 

    Oms, Cédric (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)

    In this thesis, we study the Reeb and Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic and contact manifolds. Those structures are motivated by singularities coming from classical mechanics and fluid dynamics. We start by ...

    Hodge numbers of irregular varieties and fibrations 

    González Alonso, Víctor (Date of defense: 2013-07-08)

    In this thesis we study the geography of irregular complex projective (or compact Kähler) varieties, paying special attention to the existence of fibrations. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first one we ...

    Integrable systems on b-symplectic manifolds 

    Kiesenhofer, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)

    The study of b-symplectic manifolds was initiated in 2012 by the works of Victor Guillemin, Eva Miranda and Ana Rita Pires (Adv. Math. 264 (2014), 864¿896). These manifolds, which can be understood as symplectic manifolds ...

    Matroids : h-vectors, zonotopes, and Lawrence polytopes 

    Dall, Aaron Matthew (Date of defense: 2015-02-25)

    The main objects of study in this thesis are matroids. In particular we are interested in three particular classes matroids: regular matroids, arithmetic matroids, and internally perfect matroids. Of these families, regular ...

    Metric-aware optimization of high-order meshes for curved adaptivity 

    Aparicio Estrems, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2023-04-26)

    (English) To enhance the simulation accuracy when the solution presents sharp curved features, the community of high-order methods has started to curve not only the boundary but also the interior of unstructured high-order ...