Sorèze (Tarn). Abbaye-école

École doctorale de l ' école Polytechnique Thèse

This chapter is dedicated to the de nition of relevant sets of shapes and that of de ning a metric on them. Following a recent research monograph by Delfour and Zolesio [33], we consider the characteristic functions of the subsets of R2 and their distance functions. The L2 norm of the di erence of characteristic functions, the L∞ and the W 1,2 norms of the di erence of distance functions de ne ...

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The last 25 years have seen Trauma Audit and Research Network's (TARN) research agenda develop into a significant portfolio of over 100 publications, including a number of international collaborations. Holding the largest trauma registry in Europe, TARN continues to provide researchers with the ability to pursue their interests in both epidemiological and clinical topics relating to traumatic i...

École Polytechnique

This report presents quantum walks which are the quantum counterparts of classical random walks. Quantum walks are first defined on general graphs and the possibility of very different behavior between a classical random walk and its quantum analogue is illustrated with a simple graph. A generalization of the quantum walk protocol for a particle in a one-dimensional chain, by using several type...

École Normale Supérieure

École Centrale Des Arts Et Manufactures « École Centrale Paris »

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