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The Mathieu groups

In the 19th century E. Mathieu discovered and studied five multiply transitive permutation groups. The grops are called the Mathieu groups and it turned out that all five are simple. In this thesis these remarkable groups are constructed, with special focus on the largest Mathieu group M24. All maximal subgroups of M24 will be described and classied. It is also shown that the other Mathieu groups

On some results in Sturm-Liouville theory and their generalizations to higher dimensions

Sturm's oscillation theorem says that the zeros of the nth eigenfunction of a Sturm-Liouville problem with separated boundary conditions divides the domain into n connected pieces. We present a proof of this theorem which partly uses a variational characterization of the eigenfunctions. We also show how the variational characterization can be adapted to study some properties of the eigenvalues

A Hundred Times Sharper Than Hubble: Stellar imaging with intensity interferometry

Imaging of stellar surfaces in visible wavelengths is one of the current frontiers in astronomy. With a few exceptions, stars can not be seen in visible light as anything but point objects with current technology. Being able to properly image stars would open up the door to a vast field of new discoveries, permitting direct studies of phenomena such as rotationally deformed stars, circumstellar di