A study of particular coordinate systems

dc.contributor.advisor	Lancaster, Kirk
dc.contributor.author	Ragan, Jennifer D.
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-22T22:29:53Z
dc.date.available	2011-11-22T22:29:53Z
dc.date.copyright	2011	en
dc.date.issued	2011-05
dc.identifier.other	t11032
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3968
dc.description	Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This thesis is a study of the properties and relationships between isothermal, harmonic and characteristic coordinate systems. The proof of the existence of isothermal and characteristic coordinates on a manifold which is a graph is given using the Uniformization theorem. Equations of prescribed mean curvature are discussed and the relationship between equations of minimal surface type and mean curvature type are shown. It is also proven that the map from a domain parameterized by characteristic coordinates to the domain parameterized by isothermal coordinates is quasiconformal.	en_US
dc.format.extent	x, 61 p.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Wichita State University	en_US
dc.rights	© Copyright 2011 by Jennifer D. Ragan. All rights reserved	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Electronic dissertations	en
dc.title	A study of particular coordinate systems	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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