Title page for ETD etd-042412-103445

Document Type	thesis
Author Name	Liu, Pan
URN	etd-042412-103445
Title	On Quasi-Volume-Filling Surfaces
Degree	MS
Department	Mathematical Sciences
Advisors	Umberto Mosco, Advisor
Keywords	Fractal filling surface Quasi-filling surface
Date of Presentation/Defense	2012-04-24
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to construct a Quasi-volume-filling surface and study its properties. We start with the construction of a volume-filling surface, the Pólya surface, based on Pólya's curve, by rotating the Pólya's curve in 3-dimensional space. Then we construct a Quasi-space-filling curve in 2-dimensions, the Quasi- Pólya curve, which approximates the Pólya's curve and fills a triangle up to a residual small surface of arbitrary size. We prove that the Quasi-Pólya curve satisfies the open set condition, and there exists a unique invariant (self-similar) measure consistent with the normalized Hausdorff measure on it. Moreover, the energy form constructed on Quasi-Pólya curve is proved to be a closed & regular form, and we prove that the Quasi-Pólya curve is a variational fractal in the end. Next, we use the same idea, by rotating the Quasi-Pólya curve in 3-dimensional space, to construct the Quasi-Pólya surface, which is a Quasi-volume-filling surface and approximates to Pólya surface in some sense.
Files	The_Quasi-Polya_Curve.pdf

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