Wavelet Analysis with Information Theory Applied to Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antennas
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Acknowledgements I would like to thank my wife, Jennifer Flenner for her patients and support. I would also like to thank my thesis adviser, Brian DeFacio for his guidance in this project. A. Lazzarini was kind enough to allow the use of the Caltech data for this investigation. Conversations with B. Mashhoom and S. Kopeikin about general relativity were invaluable.
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