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McGee, Chris Susina Jan. "The mysterious childhood from the Hardy boys to Harry Potter /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128282.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed Oct. 15, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Jan Susina (chair), Christopher Breu, Sally E. Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-181) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Ford, Tracy A. "Thomas Hardy : timely exits /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1850412771&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1277236955&clientId=22256.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Mississippi, 2008.<br>Typescript. Vita. "August 2008." Committee chair: Dr. David Galef Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-192). Also available online via ProQuest to authorized users.
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Memel, Jonathan Godshaw. "Thomas Hardy and education." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21848.
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Thomas Hardy wrote during a time of extraordinary growth in British education when the purposes of learning were being passionately questioned. This thesis situates Hardy’s writing both within and beyond these debates, showing how his writing avows a Victorian fascination with education while contesting its often rigid actualization in nineteenth-century society. This project places new emphasis on the range of educationalists that Hardy counted as friends. These included the dialect poet and early-Victorian schoolmaster, William Barnes; the influential architect of the 1870s board schools, Thomas Roger Smith; and the leader of late-century reforms to female teacher training colleges, Joshua Fitch. Caught between life in rural surroundings and systemized forms of education, Hardy's characters frequently endure dislocation from community and estrangement from natural environments as penalties of their intellectual development. Much previous scholarship has for this reason claimed education as a source of despair in Hardy’s writing. However, this thesis reveals the people and experiences which rigid institutions exclude, and foregrounds Hardy’s depiction of the natural environment as an alternative source of learning. Exploring Hardy's representations of education as both reflective of contemporary change and suggestive of new possibilities, chapters focus on aspects of education most resonant with Hardy's own life and central to his fiction, including the professionalization and training of schoolmistresses, the working-class movement for liberal education, educational architecture, and rural forms of education. By exploring connections between fiction and social and political concerns, the thesis demonstrates how the idea of education relates to some key characteristics of Hardy's writing, for example the observant onlooker and the native returned.
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Tidblom, Jesper. "Improved Lp Hardy Inequalities." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-615.
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Abu, Shammala Wael. "The Hardy Lorentz spaces." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274276.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Mathematics, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: B, page: 4518. Adviser: Alberto Torchinsky. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 21, 2008).
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Gregory, Rosalyn. "Thomas Hardy as dramatist." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:db08b42f-bd9b-4886-9e4e-e84293114c9b.
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This thesis traces Hardy's involvement in the theatre from the 1880s to the 1920s. The narrative of Hardy's relationship with the theatre is set against an analysis of the changing nature of the stage during this period, though I acknowledge throughout the thesis the fact that Hardy's awareness of the theatre did not perfectly keep pace with its evolution. The aim of the thesis is to examine the motivations determining Hardy's work in the theatre in light of the fact that he seemed so dismissive of its efficacy. I trace the history of Hardy's adaptations of his work for the stage, before setting the scripts against the novels in order to weigh the extent to which the novels resist translation into a different medium – whether there is something integral to Hardy's plots that cannot be conveyed on stage. I have chosen to focus predominantly on material that made it beyond a rough sketch on a scrap of paper, on projects that reached the stage of rewritings and commercial negotiations - often years before they were produced. My selection has been determined by the belief that the material is indicative of the development of Hardy's understanding of the relationship between his work and the possibilities adaptation offered. My first chapter, on the history of an adaptation of 'Far From the Madding Crowd' in 1882, argues that Hardy's collaboration with J. Comyns Carr on the script was driven by his desire to assert his copyright over the novel's afterlife. The adaptation may never have been performed, but simply have been registered with the Lord Chamberlain as a deterrent against unauthorised adapters. It was the plagiarism row over Arthur Wing Pinero's possible theft of Hardy's plot in his popular pastoral play, 'The Squire', that pushed Hardy and Carr to stage their version. My second chapter looks at the history of Hardy's adaptations of 'Tess'. I am interested primarily in his writing of two scripts in the mid-1890s, and his negotiations with leading actresses in response to their interest in creating the part of Tess. The chapter then looks at the circumstances leading to the eventual staging of the play in the 1920s, focusing on the difficulties posed by producing a script which was by then thirty years old, and showing its age. In the third chapter I concentrate on plans to stage two novels, 'The Woodlanders' and 'Jude'. Neither was produced, but both are evidence of Hardy's increasing interest in the possibility of selecting from his material, rather than compressing it into the time available. The two adaptations allied Hardy much more closely with the avant garde than his earlier work had done – 'The Woodlanders' was begun in 1889 at the suggestion of J. T. Grein and C. W. Jarvis, two men who would later found the Independent Theatre, a private subscription society which pioneered the staging of Ibsen in England. Hardy's own sketches for adapting 'Jude' (1895, 1897, 1910, 1926) concentrated on Sue's position. I set Hardy’s realignment of 'Jude' against a focus on the place of women in unhappy marriages, drawing principally on Hardy's contribution to a debate about the role of wives in the 'New Review' for June 1894 and a 'Westminster Review' article by the feminist Mona Caird (August 1888), which provoked three months of debate (and 27,000 letters) in 'The Daily Telegraph' on the question 'Is Marriage a Failure?' Caird’s ideal dovetails with Sue's views on marriage as 'legalized prostitution' and her revulsion from 'the dreadful contract to feel in a particular way in a matter whose essence is its voluntariness!' The final chapter of the thesis looks at two adaptations of 'The Dynasts'. The first is a wartime entertainment staged by Harley Granville Barker in 1914, the second is Hardy's own adaptation for Dorset amateur actors (the Hardy Players) to perform in 1916, which concentrated on the impact of the war on the local populace. I then turn to the premiere of Hardy's only full-length drama written specifically for the stage – the one-act Arthurian play 'The Queen of Cornwall' (1923). I argue in this final chapter that Hardy was beginning to move from the role of reluctant adapter to that of director, conscious of the boundaries imposed by the stage and experimenting with how to craft his work to fit within them, rather than abridging his material indiscriminately.
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Briggs, Alana Samantha. "Architecture and Thomas Hardy." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20775.
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Thomas Hardy is the only major English novelist to have been a professional architect. In his essay, “Memories of Church Restoration,” written for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (1906), it was clear that, for Hardy, architectural structures preserved the spirit of all those who had created and originally worked and lived within them. By their very presence, then, ancient and medieval buildings were historical artifacts housing the memories of past lives. This intertwining of humans and the built environment became the stuff of Hardy’s novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Drawing on autobiographical material, including correspondence and notebooks, as well as novels and poetry, this thesis examines the various ways in which Hardy engages with ideas and debates about architecture taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While previous studies have examined the treatment of architecture in Hardy’s fiction, this thesis focuses on key figures in the architectural world and the complex role their ideas play in his work. Hardy explores a combination of ideas from leading architectural thinkers, at times offering an important synthesis to coexisting architectural ideas. I argue that Hardy saw architecture as recording centuries of memory, rooted in an instinctual life that connects humans with the natural world in an intimate way, evoking evolutionary time. In so doing he expanded the meaning of the “architectural” well beyond the confines of medievalist or classical ideas, or debates sparked by architects and critics such as A.W.N. Pugin and John Ruskin and architecture, in its broadest definition, acts as a metaphor for the way the past lives on in the present, undergoing continual processes of change; for destruction and decay; and for the way buildings undergo natural processes. The nexus of architectural ideas also allows Hardy to respond to questions of the role of art in relation to society and social communities.
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Niemeyer, Paul Joseph. "Seeing Hardy: The critical and cinematic construction of Thomas Hardy and his novels." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284226.
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Cinematic adaptations of "classic" novels have long been viewed by filmmakers and critics as vehicles for understanding the art, mind, and even the personality of the original author. By examining the film and TV adaptations of Thomas Hardy's novels and by analyzing critics' opinions on the "fidelity" of these films to Hardy, we can see that this author is popularly perceived to be a pastoralist, classical tragedian, gloomy pessimist, and ardent social critic. Though there is considerable truth in these images, they do not convey all of who Hardy was and what his novels convey. Moreover, these perceptions of Hardy actually have their roots in the earliest reviews of his novels, and they have been largely reinforced by the decades of criticism that followed. But Hardy's novels actually resist simple classifications: they are multi-generic and are constantly involved in the process of deploying and questioning the language that is used by the characters and by the readers to construct a sense of reality. Since Hardy's novels are continually interrogating language and genres, they border on being self-destructive and incoherent. The function of some literary criticism of Hardy has often been to make his novels coherent and easy to understand, and to a large extent literary critics have created their own "versions" of the novels that have often become accepted by general culture. In chapters on the individual novels, this study isolates the critical histories of Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure; critically reads the novels to determine both how they give rise to and challenge popular and critical assumptions; and utilizes Barthean-derived theories on intertextuality and film adaptation to consider how filmmakers have intercepted not only Hardy's plots, but the critical interpretations of his novels, to replicate and codify on the screen familiar images of Hardy. The film and TV versions of Hardy's novels are both reflections of how these works traditionally have been read and perceived, and reflectors on how Hardy's novels continue to be read.
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Bodrie, Kat. "Let's talk about sex or not the fallen woman's linguistic dilemma and the double standard in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The mayor of Casterbridge /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/bodriek/katbodrie.pdf.
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Baker, Susan Fortune Ron Morgan William Woodrow. "Thomas Hardy's "Figure in the carpet" a study of the "Poems of 1912-13" /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9720804.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed May 30, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune, William W. Morgan (co-chairs), Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-159) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Bownas, Jane Lesley. "Thomas Hardy and Empire : Colonisers and the Colonised in the Works of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.524787.
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Alan, Muhammed Ali. "Hardy Spaces On Hyperconvex Domains." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1046101/index.pdf.
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In this thesis, we give a new definition of Hardy Spaces on hyperconvex
domains in terms of Monge-Amp`ere measures which unifies the Hardy spaces
on polydiscs and balls. Also we survey Monge-Amp`ere operators and Monge-
Amp`ere measures.
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Ho, Ieng Chon. "The Hardy spaces on torus." Thesis, University of Macau, 2017. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3691576.
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Johansson, Maria. "Hardy and Carleman type inequalities /." Luleå, 2004. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2004/81.
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Handley, G. D. "Hilbert and Hardy type inequalities /." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000818.
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Lowe, Justin Paul. "Hardy spaces near H'1." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318447.
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Dillion, Jacqueline M. "Thomas Hardy : folklore and resistance." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5156.
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This thesis examines a range of folkloric customs and beliefs that play a pivotal role in Hardy's fiction: overlooking, sympathetic magic, hag-riding, tree ‘totemism', skimmington-riding, bonfire nights, mumming, May Day celebrations, Midsummer divination, and the ‘Portland Custom'. For each of these, it offers a background survey bringing the customs or beliefs forward in time into Victorian Dorset, and examines how they have been represented in written texts – in literature, newspapers, county histories, folklore books, the work of the Folklore Society, archival documents, and letters – in the context of Hardy's repeated insistence on the authenticity of his own accounts of these traditions. In doing so, the thesis both explores Hardy's work, primarily his prose fiction, as a means to understand the ‘folklore' (a word coined in the decade of Hardy's birth) of southwestern England, and at the same time reconsiders the novels in the light of the folkloric elements. The thesis also argues that Hardy treats folklore in dynamic ways that open up more questions and tensions than many of his contemporaries chose to recognise. Hardy portrays folkloric custom and belief from the perspective of one who has lived and moved within ‘folk culture', but he also distances himself (or his narrators) by commenting on folkloric material in contemporary anthropological terms that serve to destabilize a fixed (author)itative narrative voice. The interplay between the two perspectives, coupled with Hardy's commitment to showing folk culture in flux, demonstrates his continuing resistance to what he viewed as the reductive ways of thinking about folklore adopted by prominent folklorists (and personal friends) such as Edward Clodd, Andrew Lang, and James Frazer. This thesis seeks to explore these tensions and to show how Hardy's efforts to resist what he described as ‘excellently neat' answers open up wider cultural questions about the nature of belief, progress, and change.
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Paganine, Carolina Geaquinto. "Três contos de Thomas Hardy." Florianópolis, SC, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95499.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-26T02:37:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
298887.pdf: 1983722 bytes, checksum: 9eead717609489daa538295634a5b975 (MD5)<br>Esta tese se insere na área de tradução comentada de textos literários e se baseia na minha tradução para o português dos contos "The withered arm", "Barbara of the House of Grebe" e "An imaginative woman", do escritor inglês Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), tendo como intuito propor uma discussão a respeito de algumas questões de tradução de prosa, a saber, a cadeia de significantes, hipotipose e dialeto. A tradução é precedida por um estudo prévio sobre o autor e sobre os aspectos mais importantes de sua obra e por uma apreciação da ficção de Hardy traduzida no Brasil. Em seguida, apresento os contos traduzidos e os respectivos comentários da tradução<br>The area of research of this thesis is literary translation with commentary and it is based on my own translation into Portuguese of the short stories #The withered arm#, #Bárbara of the House of Grebe#, and #An imaginative woman# by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). In the commentaries, I draw attention to some matters in prose translation, such as underlying networks of signification, hypotyposis, and dialect. My translation is preceded by a study on the writer and on the most important aspects of his work, and by an analysis of Hardy#s fictional work translated into Brazilian Portuguese. Finally, I present the translation of the short stories and the commentaries on the translation
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Schneck, Arne. "Bounds for optimization of the reflection coefficient by constrained optimization in hardy spaces." Karlsruhe Univ.-Verl. Karlsruhe, 2009. http://d-nb.info/995244383/04.
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Aping, Norbert. "Laurel und Hardy auf dem Atoll : auf den Spuren von Laurel und Hardys letztem Spielfilm /." Marburg : Schüren, 2007. http://www.schueren-verlag.de/?aid=1713.
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Souza, Osmar do Nascimento. "Espaços de Hardy e compacidade compensada." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2014. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/5906.
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Previous issue date: 2014-03-13<br>Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos<br>This work is divided into two parts. In the first part, our goal is to present the theory of Hardy Spaces Hp(Rn), which coincides with the Lebesgue space Lp(Rn) for p > 1, is strictly contained in Lp(Rn) if p = 1, and is a space of distributions when 0 < p < 1. When 0 < p ^ 1, the Hardy spaces offers a better treatment involving harmonic analysis than the Lp spaces. Among other results, we prove the maximal characterization theorem of Hp, which gives equivalent definitions of Hp, based on different maximal functions. We will proof the atomic decom¬position theorem for Hp, which allow decompose any distribution in Hp to be written as a sum of Hp-atoms (measurable functions that satisfy certain properties). In this step, we use the strongly the of Whitney decomposition and generalized Calderon-Zygmund decomposition. In the second part, as a application, we will prove that nonlinear quantities (such as the Jacobian, divergent and rotational defined in Rn) identied by the compensated compactness theory belong, under natural conditions, the Hardy spaces. To this end, in addition to the results seen in the first part, will use the results as Sobolev immersions theorems ans the inequality Sobolev-Poincare. Furthermore, we will use the tings and results related to the context of differential forms.<br>Esse trabalho está dividido em duas partes.Na primeira, nosso objetivo e apresentar os espaços de Hardy Hp(Rn), o qual coincide com os espaços Lp(Rn), quando p > 1, esta estritamente contido em Lp(Rn) se p = 1, e e um espaço de distribuições quando 0 < p < 1. Quando 0 < p < 1, os espaços de Hardy oferecem um melhor tratamento envolvendo analise harmônica do que os espaços Lp(Rn). Entre outros resultados, provamos o teorema da caracterização maximal de Hp, o qual fornece varias, porem equivalentes, formas de caracterizar Hp, com base em diferentes funcões maximais. Demonstramos o teorema da decomposição atômica para Hp, 0 < p < 1, que permite decompor qualquer distribuição em Hp como soma de Hp-atomos (funções mensuráveis que satisfazem certas propriedades). Nessa etapa, usamos fortemente a de- composição de Whitney e a decomposto de Calderon-Zygmund generalizada. Na segunda parte, como uma aplicação, provamos que quantidades não-lineares (como o jacobiano, divergente e o rotacional definidos em Rn), identificadas pela teoria compacidade compensada pertencem, em condições naturais, aos espaços de Hardy. Para tanto, além dos resultados visto na primeira parte, usamos outros como os Teoremas de Imersões de Sobolev, a desigualdade de Sobolev-Poincaré. Usamos ainda, definições e resultados referentes ao contexto de formas diferenciais.
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Francheto, Victor Hugo Falcão. "Operadores lineares em espaços de Hardy." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/5915.
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Previous issue date: 2015-03-13<br>Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos<br>The present work aims to present an example of linear a functional defined on a dense subspace of the Hardy space H1(Rn) to be built, with the intention of showing that despite the fact that this functional is uniformly bounded on all atoms, it does not extend to a bounded functional on the whole H1(Rn). This example was published by Bownik, M.B [2]. Therefore, this shows that in general is not enough to verify that an operator or a functional is bounded on atoms to conclude that it extends boundedly to the whole space. The construction is based on the fact due to Y. Meyer [1] which states that quasi-norms corresponding to finite and infinite atomic decomposition in Hp(Rn), 0 < p 6 1 are not equivalent. On the other hand it will be given a necessary and suficient condition for when and operator T defined in a dense Hardy subspace Hp(Rn) for 0 < p 6 1 is bounded extended. Such conditions were published by D. Yang and Y. Zhou [3].<br>Neste trabalho apresentaremos um exemplo de um funcional linear definido em um subespaço denso do espaço de Hardy H1(Rn), o qual apesar de ser uniformemente limitado sobre todos os átomos tal funcional não se estende limitadamente sobre o espaço H1(Rn). Este exemplo foi publicado por Bownik, M.B [2]. Por conseguinte, isto mostra que, em geral, não é suficiente verificar que um operador ou funcional limitado em átomos, para concluir que tal funcional ou operador se estende limitadamente ao espaço todo. A construção é baseada em Y. Meyer [1] que afirma que as semi-normas correspondente a decomposição atômica finita e a decomposição atômica infinita em Hp(Rn), 0 < p 6 1 não são equivalentes. Por outro lado, daremos uma condição necessária e suficiente de quando um operador linear T definido em um subespaço denso do espaço de Hardy Hp(Rn) para p 2 (0; 1] pode ser estendido limitadamente. Tais condições foram publicadas por D. Yang e Y. Zhou [3].
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Wang, Li-An, and Li-An Wang. "Multiplier Theorems on Anisotropic Hardy Spaces." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12429.
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We extend the theory of singular integral operators and multiplier theorems to the setting of anisotropic Hardy spaces. We first develop the theory of singular integral operators of convolution type in the anisotropic setting and provide a molecular decomposition on Hardy spaces that will help facilitate the study of these operators. We extend two multiplier theorems, the first by Taibleson and Weiss and the second by Baernstein and Sawyer, to the anisotropic setting. Lastly, we characterize the Fourier transforms of Hardy spaces and show that all multipliers are necessarily continuous.
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Meyer, Jonas R. "Noncommutative Hardy algebras, multipliers, and quotients." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/712.
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The principal objects of study in this thesis are the noncommutative Hardy algebras introduced by Muhly and Solel in 2004, also called simply ``Hardy algebras,'' and their quotients by ultraweakly closed ideals. The Hardy algebras form a class of nonselfadjoint dual operator algebras that generalize the classical Hardy algebra, the noncommutative analytic Toeplitz algebras introduced by Popescu in 1991, and other classes of operator algebras studied in the literature.
It is known that a quotient of a noncommutative analytic Toeplitz algebra by a weakly closed ideal can be represented completely isometrically as the compression of the algebra to the complement of the range of the ideal, but there is no known general extension of this result to Hardy algebras. An analogous problem on representing quotients of Hardy algebras as compressions of images of induced representations is considered in Chapter 2. Using Muhly and Solel's generalization of Beurling's theorem together with factorizations of weakly continuous linear functionals on infinite multiplicity operator spaces, it is shown that compressing onto the complement of the range of an ultraweakly closed ideal in the space of an infinite multiplicity induced representation yields a completely isometric isomorphism of the quotient.
A generalization of Pick's interpolation theorem for elements of Hardy algebras evaluated on their spaces of representations was proved by Muhly and Solel. In Chapter 3, a general theory of reproducing kernel W*-correspondences and their multipliers is developed, generalizing much of the classical theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert space. As an application, it is shown using the generalization of Pick's theorem that the function space representation of a Hardy algebra is isometrically isomorphic (with its quotient norm) to the multiplier algebra of a reproducing kernel W*-correspondence constructed from a generalization of the Szegõ kernel on the unit disk. In Chapter 4, properties of polynomial approximation and analyticity of these functions are studied, with special attention given to the noncommutative analytic Toeplitz algebras.
In the final chapter, the canonical curvatures for a class of Hermitian holomorphic vector bundles associated with a C*-correspondence are computed. The Hermitian metrics are closely related to the generalized Szegõ kernels, and when specialized to the disk, the bundle is the Cowen-Douglas bundle associated with the backward shift operator.
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Mei, Tao. "Operator valued Hardy spaces and related subjects." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4427.
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We give a systematic study of the Hardy spaces of functions with values in
the non-commutative Lp-spaces associated with a semifinite von Neumann algebra
M. This is motivated by matrix valued harmonic analysis (operator weighted norm
inequalities, operator Hilbert transform), as well as by the recent development of
non-commutative martingale inequalities. Our non-commutative Hardy spaces are
defined by non-commutative Lusin integral functions. It is proved in this dissertation
that they are equivalent to those defined by the non-commutative Littlewood-Paley
G-functions.
We also study the Lp boundedness of operator valued dyadic paraproducts and
prove that their Lq boundedness implies their Lp boundedness for all 1 < q < p < âÂÂ.
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Kramer, Kathryn Lynsey. "Thomas Hardy and the consequences of agnosticism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c58d990c-0e15-4d21-a379-b3e2a357310f.
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This thesis reassesses the claim that Thomas Hardy was an agnostic, looking closely at the meanings of agnosticism (in terms of nineteenth-century usage of the word) and how Hardy's reinterpretation of agnosticism manifested itself in his work. By exploring his novels and poetry as they intersect with the intellectual development of agnosticism, it is shown that at the centre of Hardy's work, as at the centre of agnosticism, is an insistence upon final epistemological uncertainty and a rejection of dogmatism. For Hardy, this had application beyond theological questions to broader aspects of human existence. Chapter One examines Hardy's engagement with the agnosticism of Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley and Leslie Stephen. Chapter Two discusses Hardy's exploration of knowledge, through its obscuration by means of secrets, trickery and concealment, in his 'Novels of Ingenuity' (Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta and A Laodicean). Chapter Three investigates Hardy's critical reinterpretation of two of Leslie Stephen's agnostic essays in A Pair of Blue Eyes and The Return of the Native. Chapter Four considers The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Woodlanders as Hardy's attempts to contextualise philosophical debates concerning the consequences of non-commitment. Chapters Five and Six discuss Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, respectively, as Hardy's most thorough explorations of the consequences of agnosticism for morality, through the portrayal of the agnostic heroes, Angel Clare and Jude Fawley. Chapter Seven considers Hardy's poetry as a medium through which he was able to express and explore his version of agnosticism. The claim of this thesis is that, Hardy, as an artist, was able to take agnosticism further than the Victorian agnostics. As such, his work can be read as a critical reinterpretation of the rationalist principles of agnostic thought within the domain of art.
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Kapp, Rafael Augusto dos Santos. "Operadores pseudo-diferenciais e espaços de Hardy." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2005. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/5839.
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Previous issue date: 2005-05-20<br>Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais<br>Obs.:Devido a restrições dos caracteres especias, verifcar abstract em texto completo para download.<br>Obs.:Devido a restrições dos caracteres especias, verifcar resumo em texto completo para download.
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Wilkinson, Jacqueline. "'Fearful joy' : Thomas Hardy and the carnivalesque." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.552828.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore Thomas Hardy's use of carnival and the carnivalesque in his novels both as a comedic and parodic tool with which he ambiguously both lightens and intensifies the tragedy and pessimism in his work and further as a penetrating literary device under the cloak of which he challenges and subverts the blinkered narrow-mindedness of his publishers and his middle-class readership. The intention is not to produce a solely Bakhtinian reading of these tropes in Hardy's work but to acknowledge the range of other voices, the social anthropologists and social historians among them, who offer a more penetrating interpretation of carnival and the carnivalesque and thus prove perhaps a more fruitful source in relation to Hardy's work. My object is to demonstrate the multifaceted nature of Hardy's utilization of these demi-genres, using them on the most superficial level as a means of authenticating his rural setting by the use of the customs and festivals which still punctuated the agricultural year as Hardy was writing. On a deeper level I shall examine how Hardy acknowledges and utilises the pagan/Christian palimpsest inherent in these rituals and overwrites them as a part of his own literary agenda thus creating a uniquely Hardian palimpsest. Finally, I will investigate Hardy's use of the carnivalesque trope as a means of producing an incisive and often parodic critique of the social and religious hegemonies of both the middle-classes and society at large. The carnivalesque is an 'extraterritorial' humorous world which also serves to question received tenets and prejudices; a destabilising world of the 'topsy-turvy', life viewed 'bottom-up', filled with a cacophony of voices, confusing disguises and masks, grotesque figures, transgressive gender blurring, and 'fearful joy'. In this thesis I shall consider how Hardy uses this inverted, transgressive phenomenon as a humorous yet destabilising literary device and further as a means of encouraging his readers to question received social norms and boundaries, both communal and personal, rural and urban. I will trace how Hardy's characterisation of carnival as a life-affirming and joyous ritual gradually took on an increasingly darker aspect filled with the cackling of subversive laughter reflecting not only the author's growing pessimism and disillusionment with the novel form but the nineteenth century movement towards the starkness of modernism.
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Routin, Eddy. "Local Tb theorems and Hardy type inequalities." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00656023.
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In this thesis, we study local Tb theorems for singular integral operators in the setting of spaces of homogeneous type. We give a direct proof of the local Tb theorem with L^2 integrability on the pseudo- accretive system. Our argument relies on the Beylkin-Coifman-Rokhlin algorithm applied in adapted Haar wavelet basis and some stopping time results. Motivated by questions of S. Hofmann, we extend it to the case when the integrability conditions are lower than 2, with an additional weak boundedness type hypothesis, which incorporates some Hardy type inequalities. We study the possibility of relaxing the support conditions on the pseudo-accretive system to a slight enlargement of the dyadic cubes. We also give a result in the case when, for practical reasons, hypotheses on the pseudo-accretive system are made on balls rather than dyadic cubes. Finally we study the particular case of perfect dyadic operators for which the proof gets much simpler. Our argument gives us the opportunity to study Hardy type inequalities. The latter are well known in the Euclidean setting, but seem to have been overlooked in spaces of homogeneous type. We prove that they hold without restriction in the dyadic setting. In the more general case of a ball B and its corona 2B\B, they can be obtained from some geometric conditions relative to the distribution of points in the homogeneous space. For example, we prove that some relative layer decay property suffices. We also prove that this property is implied by the monotone geodesic property of Tessera. Finally, we give some explicit examples and counterexamples in the complex plane to illustrate the relationship between the geometry of the homogeneous space and the validity of the Hardy type inequalities.
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Badawi, Muhamad. "Thomas Hardy and the meaning of freedom." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2691.
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This is a study of the meaning of freedom in Thomas Hardy's fiction. The first section of the thesis is concerned with the influences in Hardy's thought and view of man and man's position in the universe. Attention will be given mainly to three sources of influence on Hardy's thought. Darwinian theories of evolution and the secular movement of the nineteenth century and the change they brought about in man's view of himself and his state in the world can be seen clearly in Hardy's personal writings as well as his fiction. His childhood contact with Dorset folk beliefs and superstitions can also be perceived to have a great influence not only on his art but on his thought and outlook as well. In the second section an investigation in detail of the meaning of freedom in four of Hardy's novels will be carried out. In the novels, man will be seen as essentially free and not an automaton or a plaything of necessity or nature or fate, for example. However, we shall see that man's freedom of action as well as of choice is severely limited but not annihilated by a number of factors working from within and from without man's character. In this, nature both as phenomena and as system plays a great part. Society with its standards, norms, laws and implied understandings is another contributing factor in constraining man's freedom. Man also has his freedom limited by chance happenings and coincidences that he cannot control. "Character is fate", quotes Hardy from Novalis, and everywhere in the novels we see characters' destinies linked tightly with their personal traits, unconscious urges and peculiarities of character either passed to them by heredity or formed by early life conditioning or both. Nevertheless, man is responsible in Hardy's view because he has that essential sense of freedom; and hence that tragic flavour that tinges Hardy's fiction which would have been impossible with machine-like people as characters.
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Stenning, Maureen Patricia. "Thomas Hardy : the stranger in the landscape." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235499.
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Renouf, D. F. "Thomas Hardy and the English musical renaissance." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373966.
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Abuelela, Waleed Mostafa Kamal Abdelfatah. "Hardy type inequalities for non-convex domains." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1268/.
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Matthiesen, Lilian. "Applications of the nilpotent Hardy-Littlewood method." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610152.
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Nickerson, Anna Jennifer. "Frontiers of consciousness : Tennyson, Hardy, Hopkins, Eliot." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277879.
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‘The poet’, Eliot wrote, ‘is occupied with frontiers of consciousness beyond which words fail, though meanings still exist’. This dissertation is an investigation into the ways in which four poets – Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – imagine what it might mean to labour in verse towards the ‘frontiers of consciousness’. This is an old question about the value of poetry, about the kinds of understanding, feeling, and participation that become uniquely available as we read (or write) verse. But it is also a question that becomes peculiarly pressing in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. In my introductory chapter, I sketch out some of the philosophical, theological, and aesthetic contexts in which this question about what poetry might do for us becomes particularly acute: each of these four poets, I suggest, invests in verse as a means of sustaining belief in those things that seem excluded, imperilled, or forfeited by what is felt to be a peculiarly modern or (to use a contested term) ‘secularized’ understanding of the world. To write poetry becomes a labour towards enabling or ratifying otherwise untenable experiences of belief. But while my broader concern is with what is at stake philosophically, theologically, and even aesthetically in this labour towards the frontiers of consciousness, my more particular concern is with the ways in which these poets think in verse about how the poetic organisation of language brings us to momentary consciousness of otherwise unavailable ‘meanings’. For each of these poets, it is as we begin to listen in to the paralinguistic sounds of verse that we become conscious of that which lies beyond the realms of the linguistic imagination. These poets develop figures within their verse in order to theorize the ways in which this peculiarly poetic ‘music’ brings us to consciousness of that which exceeds or transcends the limits of the world in which we think we live. These figures begin as images of the half-seen (glimmering, haunting, dappling, crossing) but become a way of imagining that which we might only half-hear or half-know. Chapter 2 deals with Tennyson’s figure of glimmering light that signals the presence, activity, or territory of the ‘higher poetic imagination’; In Memoriam, I argue, represents the development of this figure into a poetics of the ‘glimpse’, a poetry that repeatedly approaches the horizon of what might be seen or heard. Chapter 3 is concerned with Hardy’s figuring of the ‘hereto’ of verse as a haunted region, his ghostly figures and spectral presences becoming a way of thinking about the strange experiences of listening and encounter that verse affords. Chapter 4 attends to the dappled skins and skies of Hopkins’ verse and the ways in which ‘dapple’ becomes a theoretical framework for thinking about the nature and theological significance of prosodic experience. And Chapter 5 considers the visual and acoustic crossings of Eliot’s verse as a series of attempts to imagine and interrogate the proposition that the poetic organisation of language offers ‘hints and guesses’ of a reality that is both larger and more significant than our own.
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AHMED, HUSSEIN ALAWIA. "L'amour dans les romans de thomas hardy." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040064.
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Cette etude se divise en quatre parties. J'ai commence par faire une approche biographique et j'ai essaye de traiter de la presence feminine dans la vie de thomas hardy ainsi que du role et des consequences de cette presence a la fois sur sa vie et sur son oeuvre. La deuxieme partie a pour but de nous introduire dans le milieu social des romans, c'est-a-dire de delimiter leur contexte social. Je commence par etudier la cellule familiale, les relations qui existent entre les jeunes et toutes les varietes de relations amoureuses que les personnages entretiennent avant le mariage ainsi que les valeurs sociales qui influencent leurs comportements et meme les determinent. La troisieme partie traite principalement de l'institution du mariage, de la vie conjugale qui en decoule et des relations sexuelles extra-maritales. La quatrieme partie est un essai sur le jeu de l'amour dans un contexte historique. J'ai essaye d'en donner une definition et de montrer l'evolution de la notion de l'amour. J'ai essaye en outre de mettre en evidence et de definir les differentes etapes et experiences de l'amour en accord avec les attitudes manifestees par les personnages des romans de thomas hardy. Cette partie etudie a la fois le pessimisme de hardy et son espoir que les relations amoureuses puissent s'ameliorer<br>This study of love in the novels of thomas hardy is devided mainly in four parts. The first part deals with the feminine presence in hardy's life and its influence on his novels. Since love is mainly presented in the wessex novels in a social context, i briefly managed to deal with the wessex society as far as its influence on the love relations is concerned. As well, i tried to deal with the different love relations before marriage and, of course, hardy's attitudes towards them. The failure of the marriage constitution to organise the immortal puzzle of the sexual relationships between the sexes is dealt with at length in the third part. The different kinds of the game of love, such as presented in hardy's novels, and how in the very nature of these games reside the germs of their failure and tragic ends, constitute the body of the fourth and the last part of this study
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Darkwa, Alfred Anthony. "Growth and biochemistry of hardy European orchids." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495011.
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Kim, Rochelle H. "The "Great Background" in Hardy and Lawrence." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/996.
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This thesis investigates D.H. Lawrence’s idea of the “great background” in the context of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and how it reappears in a transformed way in Lawrence’s novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love. Through examining the perverse effects of modernism on these novels’ characters, this thesis argues that the “great background” is something that gradually moves inward––from the old, traditional “State” to an internal, inscrutable yet attainable reality.
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Dutta, Shanta. "Hardy and women : a study in ambivalence." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34850.
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This thesis attempts to take a fresh look at the long-running critical debate regarding Hardy's attitude to women as revealed in his prose fiction. Writing in a predominantly male literary tradition, and sharing a Christian ethic which held women responsible for the shattering of Edenic bliss, Hardy's fiction sometimes betrays certain misogynic traits as the author/narrator seems trapped in the gender-stereotyping so characteristic of his age. Reductive generalizations regarding woman's nature, often crudely bio-determined, pepper Hardy's novels even as late as Jude. Conversely, Hardy's sincere sympathy for woman as victim of patriarchal repression and exploitation emerges powerfully not only in Tess but also in those unjustly neglected short stories of the 1890s which reveal certain radically feminist tendencies, e.g. on eugenics. This study draws on unpublished letters and manuscripts in the Dorset County Museum and also on Hardy's marginalia, his published letters, literary 'Notebooks', and autobiography, as these offer interesting sidelights on authorial intentions and attitudes. The insights from these extra-textual sources are used to complement the textual analysis of one 'minor' and one 'major' prose work from the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. The study then examines Hardy's attitudes to his two wives vis-a-vis their literary ambitions: his strange unconcern regarding his first wife's creative efforts, in sharp contrast to his active promotion of the careers of his (would-be) second wife and a couple of other aristocratic literary 'pupils'. Following this is a detailed exploration of Hardy's relations with some of his contemporary female writers. The picture that finally emerges is of an artist who is often unable to transcend the blinkered male attitudes of his age, yet who courageously espouses certain revolutionary ideas on women's rights. This ambivalence is typical of a man who claimed to be content with tentativeness and disavowed any consistent 'philosophy' -- feminist or otherwise.
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McEwan, Sarah. ""The inward and outward eye": shame and guilt in the work of Thomas Hardy." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=96991640X.
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Biggs, David J. "The piping of the shepherd : meaning as myth in the pastoral novels of Thomas Hardy /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb592.pdf.
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Pottorff, Mary F. "Spiritual illumination and reconciliation in Thomas Hardy's poetry /." View online, 1996. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998837451.pdf.
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Morton, Kate. ""Conflicts of desire and possibility" : Thomas Hardy's tragic novels /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16810.pdf.
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McGowan, Mary Margaret Ann. "The lost world of Thomas Hardy : an examination of the representation of foreign places in selected writings of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274550.
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Shakerian, Shaya. "Borderline variational problems for fractional Hardy-Schrödinger operators." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62397.
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In this thesis, we study properties of the fractional Hardy-Schrödinger operator L_(γ,α)≔(-∆)^(α/(2 ))- γ/〖|x|〗^α both on R^n and on its bounded domains. The following functional inequality is key to our variational approach.
C〖(∫_(R^n)〖 〖|u|〗^(2_α^* (s))/〖|x|〗^s dx〗)〗^(2/(2_α^* (s)))≤ ∫_(R^n)〖 〖|(-∆)^(α/(4 )) u|〗^2 dx〗- γ∫_(R^n)〖 〖|u|〗^2/〖|x|〗^α dx,〗
where 0 ≤ s < α < 2, n > α, 2_α^* (s)=(2(n-s))/(n-α) and γ< γ_H(α), the latter being the best fractional Hardy constant on R^n. We address questions regarding the attainability of the best constant C > 0 attached to this inequality. This allows us to establish the existence of non-trivial weak solutions for the following doubly critical problem on R^n,
L_(γ,α) u=〖|u|〗^(2_α^*-2)u + (〖|u|〗^(2_α^* (s)-2) u)/〖|x|〗^s in R^n, where 〖2_α^*≔2〗_α^* (0).
We then look for least-energy solutions of the following linearly perturbed non-linear boundary value problem on bounded subdomains of R^n containing the singularity 0:
(L_(γ,α)-λΙ)u= 〖|u|〗^(2_α^* (s)-1)/〖|x|〗^s on Ω,
We show that if γ is below a certain threshold γ_crit(α), then such solutions exist for all 〖0<λ<λ〗_1 (L_(γ,α) ), the latter being the first eigenvalue of L_(γ,α). On the other hand, for γ_crit (α)<γ<γ_H (α), we prove existence of such solutions only for those λ in (0,λ_1 (L_(γ,α))) for which Ω has a positive fractional Hardy- Schrödinger mass m_(γ,λ)^α (Ω). This latter notion is introduced by way of an invariant of the linear equation (L_(γ,α)-λΙ)u= 0 on Ω.
We then study the effect of non-linear perturbation 〖h(x)u〗^(q-1), where h∈C^0 (¯Ω), h≥0 and 2<q<2_α^*. Our analysis shows that the existence of solutions is guaranteed by this perturbation whenever 0≤γ≤γ_crit (α), while for γ_crit (α)<γ<γ_H (α), it depends on both the perturbation and the geometry of the domain.<br>Science, Faculty of<br>Mathematics, Department of<br>Graduate
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Chen, Tieling. "Weak and strong inequalities for Hardy type operators." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58204.pdf.
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Okpoti, Christopher Adjei. "Weight characterizations of Hardy and Carleman type inequalities /." Luleå : Department of Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 2006. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2006/36/.
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Ushakova, Elena P. "Norm inequalities of Hardy and Pólya-Knopp types /." Luleå : Department of Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 2006. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2006/53/.
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Zhang, Chengping, and 张成萍. "Moments of vision: Thomas Hardy, literature and ethics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45588326.
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El-Baaj, Habib. "Thomas Hardy and Theodore Dreiser : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1989. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5539/.
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With the publication of Jude the Obscure (1985) Hardy had finished his work with the novel. Just five years later Dreiser published Sister Carrie (1900), thus making it possible that he could have found in Hardy a model. The resemblances to the Hardyan novel in both the early and later works of Dreiser are striking and varied enough to give encouragement to a hypothesis of direct influence. The evidence in support of this hypothesis we propose to take note of carefully in this study. The study is divided into six chapters. Chapter One focusses on the broadly pessimistic and deterministic philosophy that runs throughout the novels of both authors in the sense that both were `blown to bits' by reading evolutionary theories that attacked accepted views of man, God, and the universe. Thus, both found in the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer evidence that man is not the creation of a benevolent deity, but rather of the interaction of unknowable forces existing in a world of struggle where survival of the fittest is the basic law. Accordingly, both concluded that man is basically determined by the natural and social forces operating from within and without to ensure man's unhappiness. In Chapter Two the protagonist of Sister Carrie is discussed in relation to the more deeply tragic heroes and heroines of Thomas Hardy, particularly Tess Durbeyfield. Carrie has the dreaminess of Jude and the natural vitality of Tess, and like Tess she is a child of nature. The chapter goes on to trace the Hardysque and Dreiserian theme of the fallen woman whose natural goodness and self-sacrifice for others keep her `Pure'. Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1981), and Jennie Gerhardt (1911), are the novels discussed in relation to this common theme. Chapter Three takes for its subject-matter the novelists' portrayal of society in the context of Herbert Spencer's application of the theory of `the survival of the fittest' to social behaviour. Donald Farfrae in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), and Frank Cowperwood in Freiser's The Financier (1912), and The Titan (1914), are discussed as aggressive exponents of the Nietzschean superman figure, committing themselves to the values of materialism. Although both men win in the battle of life and survive, nevertheless, they undergo an inner spiritual defeat. Chapter Four probes the depth of the conflict between flesh and spirit, body and soul, vice and virtue in Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Freiser's The `Genius' (1915). Both heroes, Jude and Eugene, are sexually driven and in bondage to desire, but at the same time possess transcendental traits. In Jude's case, this contest between the spiritual and the sensual culminates inevitably in his death; Eugene, less convincingly perhaps, eventually finds temporary ease for his divided being and restless soul in the religious doctrines of Christian Science. Chapter Five examines Jude the Obscure and Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) as tragedies of `unfulfilled aims and aspirations'. Initially, attention is focussed upon the tragic aspect of both stories and the question of whether or not the two novels are in fact tragedies is discussed. Jude Fawley and Clyde Griffiths have opposite aims and ambitions. Jude's intellectual aspirations are contrasted with Clyde's materialistic desires. The ambition of each hero, however, is marked by failure, and the destiny of both is the same. Each is finally frustrated by forces in his nature, his society, and his circumstances. This study concludes, in Chapter Six, by noting that characters in the novels of Hardy and Dreiser rarely come to a satisfactory accommodation with life. The novels' tragic conclusions are due, in large part, to social, cultural, and universal influences which make any sense of personal fulfilment difficult, if not impossible to achieve.