Extremal functions related to convexity and martingales

Suwannaphichat, Sineenuch

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Title

Extremal functions related to convexity and martingales

Author(s)

Suwannaphichat, Sineenuch

Issue Date

2014-09-16

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Hinkkanen, Aimo

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

• Miles, Joseph B.
• Loeb, Peter A.

Committee Member(s)

• Hinkkanen, Aimo
• Merenkov, Sergiy A.

Department of Study

Mathematics

Discipline

Mathematics

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Extremal functions
• Convex functions

Abstract

We consider the problem of finding the extremal function in the class of real-valued biconvex functions satisfying a boundary condition on a product of the unit ball with itself, with a suitable norm in the plane. We want to maximize the biconvex function at a point in the domain where the second component is fixed and therefore we can consider the biconvex function as a convex function of the first component. We then find a representation for the convex function in terms of some functions of a suitable quotient of second order partial derivatives of the convex function, where these functions will satisfy certain conditions so that the biconvex function will have the given boundary values. From the quotient of second order partial derivatives of the convex function, we obtain a relation leading to the Hopf differential equation, whose solution involves a parameter function. With a given boundary function, we perform a variation of the parameter function by a small real-valued function. Then we find the change of the representation of the convex function. If the convex function is an extremal function, then the rate of change with respect to the variation made to the parameter function is zero. This will be the condition that we are looking for in an extremal function.

Graduation Semester

2014-08

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