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- ANNIHILATORS AND A + B RINGS.
- Creator
- Epstein, Alexandra Nicole, Klingler, Lee, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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A + B rings are constructed from a ring A and nonempty set of prime ideals of A. Initially, these rings were created to provide examples of reduced rings which satisfy certain annihilator conditions. We describe precisely when A + B rings have these properties, based on the ring A and set of prime ideals of A. We continue by giving necessary and su cient conditions for A + B rings to have various other properties. We also consider annihilators in the context of frames of ideals of reduced rings.
- Date Issued
- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013588
- Subject Headings
- Rings (Algebra)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DEVELOPING A DEEP LEARNING PIPELINE TO AUTOMATICALLY ANNOTATE GOLD PARTICLES IN IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGES.
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- Jerez, Diego Alejandro, Hahn, William, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Machine learning has been utilized in bio-imaging in recent years, however as it is relatively new and evolving, some researchers who wish to utilize machine learning tools have limited access because of a lack of programming knowledge. In electron microscopy (EM), immunogold labeling is commonly used to identify the target proteins, however the manual annotation of the gold particles in the images is a time-consuming and laborious process. Conventional image processing tools could provide...
Show moreMachine learning has been utilized in bio-imaging in recent years, however as it is relatively new and evolving, some researchers who wish to utilize machine learning tools have limited access because of a lack of programming knowledge. In electron microscopy (EM), immunogold labeling is commonly used to identify the target proteins, however the manual annotation of the gold particles in the images is a time-consuming and laborious process. Conventional image processing tools could provide semi-automated annotation, but those require that users make manual adjustments for every step of the analysis. To create a new high-throughput image analysis tool for immuno-EM, I developed a deep learning pipeline that was designed to deliver a completely automated annotation of immunogold particles in EM images. The program was made accessible for users without prior programming experience and was also expanded to be used on different types of immuno-EM images.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013628
- Subject Headings
- Electron microscopy, Immunogold labeling, Image analysis, Deep learning
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- Document (PDF)
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- PREDICTING TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY FROM GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE IMAGES USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS.
- Creator
- Udumulla, Niranga Mahesh, Motta, Francis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Tropical cyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters for human beings and the natural and manmade assets near to Atlantic basin. Estimating the current and future intensity of these powerful storms is crucial to protect life and property. Many methods and models exist for predicting the evolution of Atlantic basin cyclones, including numerical weather prediction models that simulate the dynamics of the atmosphere which require accurate measurements of the current state of the...
Show moreTropical cyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters for human beings and the natural and manmade assets near to Atlantic basin. Estimating the current and future intensity of these powerful storms is crucial to protect life and property. Many methods and models exist for predicting the evolution of Atlantic basin cyclones, including numerical weather prediction models that simulate the dynamics of the atmosphere which require accurate measurements of the current state of the atmosphere (NHC, 2019). Often these models fail to capture dangerous aspects of storm evolution, such as rapid intensification (RI), in which a storm undergoes a steep increase in intensity over a short time. To improve prediction of these events, scientists have turned to statistical models to predict current and future intensity using readily collected satellite image data (Pradhan, 2018). However, even the current-intensity prediction models have shown limited success in generalizing to unseen data, a result we confirm in this study. Therefore, building models for the estimating the current and future intensity of hurricanes is valuable and challenging. In this study we focus on to estimating cyclone intensity using Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite images. These images represent five spectral bands covering the visible and infrared spectrum. We have built and compared various types of deep neural models, including convolutional networks based on long short term memory models and convolutional regression models that have been trained to predict the intensity, as measured by maximum sustained wind speed.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013626
- Subject Headings
- Tropical cyclones, Cyclones--Tropics--Forecasting, Geosynchronous satellites, Neural networks (Computer science)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- INFECTION AGE STRUCTURED VECTOR BORNE DISEASE MODEL WITH DIRECT TRANSMISSION.
- Creator
- Giri, Sunil, Tuncer, Necibe, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool to study and analyze the disease dynamics prevalent in the community. This thesis studies the dynamics of two time since infection structured vector borne models with direct transmission. We have included disease induced death rate in the first model to form the second model. The aim of this thesis is to analyze whether these two models have same or different disease dynamics. An explicit expression for the reproduction number denoted by R0 is derived....
Show moreMathematical modeling is a powerful tool to study and analyze the disease dynamics prevalent in the community. This thesis studies the dynamics of two time since infection structured vector borne models with direct transmission. We have included disease induced death rate in the first model to form the second model. The aim of this thesis is to analyze whether these two models have same or different disease dynamics. An explicit expression for the reproduction number denoted by R0 is derived. Dynamical analysis reveals the forward bifurcation in the first model. That is when the threshold value R0 < 1, disease free-equilibrium is stable locally implying that if there is small perturbation of the system, then after some time, the system will return to the disease free equilibrium. When R0 > 1 the unique endemic equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable. For the second model, analysis of the existence and stability of equilibria reveals the existence of backward bifurcation i.e. where the disease free equilibrium coexists with the endemic equilibrium when the reproduction number R02 is less than unity. This aspect shows that in order to control vector borne disease, it is not sufficient to have reproduction number less than unity although necessary. Thus, the infection can persist in the population even if the reproduction number is less than unity. Numerical simulation is presented to see the bifurcation behaviour in the model. By taking the reproduction number as the bifurcation parameter, we find the system undergoes backward bifurcation at R02 = 1. Thus, the model has backward bifurcation and have two positive endemic equilibrium when R02 < 1 and unique positive endemic equilibrium whenever R02 > 1. Stability analysis shows that disease free equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable when R02 < 1 and unstable when R02 > 1. When R02 < 1, lower endemic equilibrium in backward bifurcation is locally unstable.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013552
- Subject Headings
- Vector Borne Diseases, Mathematical models, Simulations, Dynamics--Mathematical models
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- ALGORITHMS IN LATTICE-BASED CRYPTANALYSIS.
- Creator
- Miller, Shaun, Bai, Shi, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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An adversary armed with a quantum computer has algorithms[66, 33, 34] at their disposal, which are capable of breaking our current methods of encryption. Even with the birth of post-quantum cryptography[52, 62, 61], some of best cryptanalytic algorithms are still quantum [45, 8]. This thesis contains several experiments on the efficacy of lattice reduction algorithms, BKZ and LLL. In particular, the difficulty of solving Learning With Errors is assessed by reducing the problem to an instance...
Show moreAn adversary armed with a quantum computer has algorithms[66, 33, 34] at their disposal, which are capable of breaking our current methods of encryption. Even with the birth of post-quantum cryptography[52, 62, 61], some of best cryptanalytic algorithms are still quantum [45, 8]. This thesis contains several experiments on the efficacy of lattice reduction algorithms, BKZ and LLL. In particular, the difficulty of solving Learning With Errors is assessed by reducing the problem to an instance of the Unique Shortest Vector Problem. The results are used to predict the behavior these algorithms may have on actual cryptographic schemes with security based on hard lattice problems. Lattice reduction algorithms require several floating-point operations including multiplication. In this thesis, I consider the resource requirements of a quantum circuit designed to simulate floating-point multiplication with high precision.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013543
- Subject Headings
- Cryptanalysis, Cryptography, Algorithms, Lattices, Quantum computing
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE CHANGE POINT PROBLEM FOR TWO CLASSES OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSES.
- Creator
- Ball, Cory, Long, Hongwei, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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The change point problem is a problem where a process changes regimes because a parameter changes at a point in time called the change point. The objective of this problem is to estimate the change point and each of the parameters of the stochastic process. In this thesis, we examine the change point problem for two classes of stochastic processes. First, we consider the volatility change point problem for stochastic diffusion processes driven by Brownian motions. Then, we consider the drift...
Show moreThe change point problem is a problem where a process changes regimes because a parameter changes at a point in time called the change point. The objective of this problem is to estimate the change point and each of the parameters of the stochastic process. In this thesis, we examine the change point problem for two classes of stochastic processes. First, we consider the volatility change point problem for stochastic diffusion processes driven by Brownian motions. Then, we consider the drift change point problem for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes driven by _-stable Levy motions. In each problem, we establish the consistency of the estimators, determine asymptotic behavior for the changing parameters, and finally, we perform simulation studies to computationally assess the convergence of parameters.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013462
- Subject Headings
- Stochastic processes, Change-point problems, Brownian motion processes, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, Computer simulation
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- Document (PDF)
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- ACCURATE HIGH ORDER COMPUTATION OF INVARIANT MANIFOLDS FOR LONG PERIODIC ORBITS OF MAPS AND EQUILIBRIUM STATES OF PDE.
- Creator
- Gonzalez, Jorge L., Mireles-James, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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The study of the long time behavior of nonlinear systems is not effortless, but it is very rewarding. The computation of invariant objects, in particular manifolds provide the scientist with the ability to make predictions at the frontiers of science. However, due to the presence of strong nonlinearities in many important applications, understanding the propagation of errors becomes necessary in order to quantify the reliability of these predictions, and to build sound foundations for future...
Show moreThe study of the long time behavior of nonlinear systems is not effortless, but it is very rewarding. The computation of invariant objects, in particular manifolds provide the scientist with the ability to make predictions at the frontiers of science. However, due to the presence of strong nonlinearities in many important applications, understanding the propagation of errors becomes necessary in order to quantify the reliability of these predictions, and to build sound foundations for future discoveries. This dissertation develops methods for the accurate computation of high-order polynomial approximations of stable/unstable manifolds attached to long periodic orbits in discrete time dynamical systems. For this purpose a multiple shooting scheme is applied to invariance equations for the manifolds obtained using the Parameterization Method developed by Xavier Cabre, Ernest Fontich and Rafael De La Llave in [CFdlL03a, CFdlL03b, CFdlL05].
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013468
- Subject Headings
- Invariant manifolds, Nonlinear systems, Diffeomorphisms, Parabolic partial differential equations, Differential equations, Partial
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- Document (PDF)
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- 2009-2010 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2009-2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007676
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 2010-2011 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2010-2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007683
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- Document (PDF)
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- 2012-2013 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2012-2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007690
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 2013-2014 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2013-2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007697
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 2014-2015 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2014-2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007704
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- Document (PDF)
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- 2015-2016 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2015-2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007711
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- 2016-2017 Program Review Mathematics.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University.
- Date Issued
- 2016-2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007718
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- CHARACTERIZATIONS OF LINEAR ISOMETRIES ON COMPLEX SEQUENCE SPACES.
- Creator
- Babun Codorniu, Omar, Zhang, Xiao-Dong, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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An operator acting on a Banach space is called an isometry if it preserves the norm of the space. An interesting problem is to determine the form or structure of linear isometries on Banach spaces. This can be done in some instances. This dissertation presents several theorems that provide necessary and sufficient conditions for some linear operators acting on finite and infinite dimensional sequence spaces of complex numbers to be isometries. In all cases, the linear isometries have the form...
Show moreAn operator acting on a Banach space is called an isometry if it preserves the norm of the space. An interesting problem is to determine the form or structure of linear isometries on Banach spaces. This can be done in some instances. This dissertation presents several theorems that provide necessary and sufficient conditions for some linear operators acting on finite and infinite dimensional sequence spaces of complex numbers to be isometries. In all cases, the linear isometries have the form of a permutation of the elements of the sequences in the given space, with each component of each sequence multiplied by a complex number of absolute value 1.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013354
- Subject Headings
- Banach spaces, Isometrics (Mathematics), Matrices, Linear operators, Normed linear spaces
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR GEOMETRIC L EVY PROCESSES WITH STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY.
- Creator
- Chhetri, Sher B., Long, Hongwei, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
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In finance, various stochastic models have been used to describe the price movements of financial instruments. After Merton's [38] seminal work, several jump diffusion models for option pricing and risk management have been proposed. In this dissertation, we add alpha-stable Levy motion to the process related to dynamics of log-returns in the Black-Scholes model where the volatility is assumed to be constant. We use the sample characteristic function approach in order to study parameter...
Show moreIn finance, various stochastic models have been used to describe the price movements of financial instruments. After Merton's [38] seminal work, several jump diffusion models for option pricing and risk management have been proposed. In this dissertation, we add alpha-stable Levy motion to the process related to dynamics of log-returns in the Black-Scholes model where the volatility is assumed to be constant. We use the sample characteristic function approach in order to study parameter estimation for discretely observed stochastic differential equations driven by Levy noises. We also discuss the consistency and asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators. Simulation results of the model are also presented to show the validity of the estimators. We then propose a new model where the volatility is not a constant. We consider generalized alpha-stable geometric Levy processes where the stochastic volatility follows the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) model in Cox et al. [9]. A number of methods have been proposed for estimating parameters for stable laws. However, a complication arises in estimation of the parameters in our model because of the presence of the unobservable stochastic volatility. To combat this complication we use the sample characteristic function method proposed by Press [48] and the conditional least squares method as mentioned in Overbeck and Ryden [47] to estimate all the parameters. We then discuss the consistency and asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators and establish a Central Limit Theorem. We perform simulations to assess the validity of the estimators. We also present several tables to show the comparison of estimators using different choices of arguments ui's. We conclude that all the estimators converge as expected regardless of the choice of ui's.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013294
- Subject Headings
- Stochastic models, Lévy processes, Parameter estimation, Finance, Simulations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH.
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- Khan, Md Tareq Ferdous, Qian, Lianfen, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
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This thesis uses Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014 data to identify the important determinants due to which women justification towards intimate partner violence (IPV) varies. Statistical analyses reveal that among the individual-level independent variables age at first marriage, respondent's education, decision score, religion, NGO membership, access to information, husband's education, normalized wealth score, and division indicator have significant effects on the women's...
Show moreThis thesis uses Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014 data to identify the important determinants due to which women justification towards intimate partner violence (IPV) varies. Statistical analyses reveal that among the individual-level independent variables age at first marriage, respondent's education, decision score, religion, NGO membership, access to information, husband's education, normalized wealth score, and division indicator have significant effects on the women's attitude towards IPV. It shows that other than religion, NGO membership, and division indicator, the higher the value of the variable, the lower the likelihood of justifying IPV. However, being a Muslim, NGO member, and resident of other divisions, women are found more tolerant of IPV from their respective counterparts. Among the three community-level variables, only the mean decision score is found significant in lowering the likelihood. The thesis concludes with some policy recommendations and a proposal for future research.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013325
- Subject Headings
- Intimate partner violence, Bangladesh, Women
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- H-LOCAL RINGS.
- Creator
- Omairi, Akeel, Klingler, Lee, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
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We say that a commutative ring R has the unique decomposition into ideals (UDI) property if, for any R-module which decomposes into a _nite direct sum of indecomposable ideals, this decomposition is unique up to the order and isomorphism class of the ideals. In a 2001 paper, Goeters and Olberding characterize the UDI property for Noetherian integral domains and in a 2011 paper Ay and Klingler obtain similar results for Noetherian reduced rings. We characterize the UDI property for Noetherian...
Show moreWe say that a commutative ring R has the unique decomposition into ideals (UDI) property if, for any R-module which decomposes into a _nite direct sum of indecomposable ideals, this decomposition is unique up to the order and isomorphism class of the ideals. In a 2001 paper, Goeters and Olberding characterize the UDI property for Noetherian integral domains and in a 2011 paper Ay and Klingler obtain similar results for Noetherian reduced rings. We characterize the UDI property for Noetherian rings in general.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013336
- Subject Headings
- Noetherian rings, Prüfer rings, Local rings
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUANTUM-SAFE CRYPTOGRAPHY: HYBRID ENCRYPTION AND REDUCING THE T GATE COST OF AES.
- Creator
- Pham, Hai, Steinwandt, Rainer, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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Quantum cryptography offers a wonderful source for current and future research. The idea started in the early 1970s, and it continues to inspire work and development toward a popular goal, large-scale communication networks with strong security guarantees, based on quantum-mechanical properties. Quantum cryptography builds on the idea of exploiting physical properties to establish secure cryptographic operations. A particular quantum-based protocol has gathered interest in recent years for...
Show moreQuantum cryptography offers a wonderful source for current and future research. The idea started in the early 1970s, and it continues to inspire work and development toward a popular goal, large-scale communication networks with strong security guarantees, based on quantum-mechanical properties. Quantum cryptography builds on the idea of exploiting physical properties to establish secure cryptographic operations. A particular quantum-based protocol has gathered interest in recent years for its use of mesoscopic coherent states. The AlphaEta protocol has been designed to exploit properties of coherent states of light to transmit data securely over an optical channel. AlphaEta aims to draw security from the uncertainty of any measurement of the transmitted coherent states due to intrinsic quantum noise. We propose a framework to combine this protocol with classical preprocessing, taking into account error-correction for the optical channel and establishing a strong provable security guarantee. Integrating a state-of-the-art solution for fast authenticated encryption is straightforward, but in this case the security analysis requires heuristic reasoning.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013339
- Subject Headings
- Cryptography, Quantum computing, Algorithms, Mesoscopic coherent states
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Norm Inequalities for the Fourier Coefficients of Some Almost Periodic Functions.
- Creator
- Boryshchak, Yarema, Sagher, Yoram, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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Using C. Fefferman's embedding of a charge space in a measure space allows us to apply standard interpolation theorems to the establishment of norm inequalities for Besicovitch almost periodic functions. This yields a significant improvement to the results of A. Avantaggiati, G. Bruno and R. Iannacci.
- Date Issued
- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013191
- Subject Headings
- Fourier series, Almost periodic functions, Norm
- Format
- Document (PDF)