@phdthesis{Meyerhoefer2003,
  author    = {Meyerh{\"o}fer, Wolfram},
  title     = {Was testen Tests? Objektiv-hermeneutische Analysen am Beispiel von TIMSS und PISA},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-12848},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Als ich anfing, ein Thema f{\"u}r meine Promotion zu erarbeiten, fand ich Massentests ziemlich beeindruckend. TIMSS: {\"u}ber 500000 Sch{\"u}ler getestet. PISA: 180000 Sch{\"u}ler getestet. Ich wollte diese Datenbasis nutzen, um Erkenntnisse f{\"u}r die Gestaltung von Unterricht zu gewinnen. Leider kam ich damit nicht weit. Je tiefer ich mich mit den Tests und den dahinterstehenden Theorien befasste, desto deutlicher sch{\"a}lte sich heraus, dass mit diesen Tests keine neue Erkenntnis generiert werden kann. Fast alle Schlussfolgerungen, die aus den Tests gezogen werden, konnten gar nicht aus den Tests selbst gewonnen werden. Ich konzentrierte mich zunehmend auf die Testaufgaben, weil die Geltung der Aussage eines Tests an der Aufgabe erzeugt wird: In der Aufgabe gerinnt das, was die Tester als „mathematische Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit" konstruieren. Der Sch{\"u}ler wiederum hat nur die Aufgabe vor sich. Es gibt nur „gel{\"o}st" (ein Punkt) und „ungel{\"o}st" (kein Punkt). Damit der Sch{\"u}ler den Punkt bekommt, muss er an der richtigen Stelle ankreuzen, oder er muss etwas hinschrei-ben, wof{\"u}r der Auswerter einen Punkt gibt. In der Dissertation wird untersucht, was die Aufgaben testen, was also alles in das Konstrukt von „mathematischer Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit" einfließt, und ob es das ist, was der Test testen soll. Es stellte sich durchaus erstaunliches heraus: - Oftmals gibt es so viele M{\"o}glichkeiten, zur gew{\"u}nschten L{\"o}sung (die nicht in jedem Fall die richtige L{\"o}sung ist) zu gelangen, dass man nicht benennen kann, welche F{\"a}higkeit die Aufgabe eigentlich misst. Das Konstrukt „mathematische Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit" wird damit zu einem zuf{\"a}lligen. - Es werden Komponenten von Testf{\"a}higkeit mitgemessen: Viele Aufgaben enthalten Irritationen, welche von testerfahrenen Sch{\"u}lern leichter {\"u}berwunden werden k{\"o}nnen als von testunerfahrenen. Es gibt Aufgaben, die gel{\"o}st werden k{\"o}nnen, ohne dass man {\"u}ber die F{\"a}higkeit verf{\"u}gt, die getestet werden soll. Umgekehrt gibt es Aufgaben, die man eventuell nicht l{\"o}sen kann, obwohl man {\"u}ber diese F{\"a}higkeit verf{\"u}gt. Als Kernkompetenz von Testf{\"a}higkeit stellt sich heraus, weder das gestellte mathematische Problem noch die angeblichen realen Proble-me ernst zu nehmen, sondern sich statt dessen auf das zu konzentrieren, was die Tester angekreuzt oder hinge-schrieben sehen wollen. Prinzipiell erweist es sich als g{\"u}nstig, mittelm{\"a}ßig zu arbeiten, auf intellektuelle Tiefe in der Auseinandersetzung mit den Aufgaben also zu verzichten. - Man kann bei Multiple-Choice-Tests raten. Die PISA-Gruppe behauptet zwar, dieses Problem technisch {\"u}ber-winden zu k{\"o}nnen, dies erweist sich aber als Fehleinsch{\"a}tzung. - Sowohl bei TIMSS als auch bei PISA stellt sich heraus, dass die vorgeblich verwendeten didaktischen und psychologischen Theorien lediglich theoretische M{\"a}ntel f{\"u}r eine theoriearme Testerstellung sind. Am Beispiel der Theorie der mentalen Situationsmodelle (zur Bearbeitung von realit{\"a}tsnahen Aufgaben) wird dies ausf{\"u}hrlich exemplarisch ausgearbeitet. Das Problem reproduziert sich in anderen Theoriefeldern. Die Tests werden nicht durch Operationalisierungen von Messkonstrukten erstellt, sondern durch systematisches Zusammenst{\"u}ckeln von Aufgaben. - Bei PISA sollte „Mathematical Literacy" getestet werden. Verk{\"u}rzt sollte das die F{\"a}higkeit sein, „die Rolle, die Mathematik in der Welt spielt, zu erkennen und zu verstehen, begr{\"u}ndete mathematische Urteile abzugeben und sich auf eine Weise mit der Mathematik zu befassen, die den Anforderungen des gegenw{\"a}rtigen und k{\"u}nftigen Lebens einer Person als eines konstruktiven, engagierten und reflektierten B{\"u}rgers entspricht" (PISA-Eigendarstellung). Von all dem kann angesichts der Aufgaben keine Rede sein. - Bei der Untersuchung des PISA-Tests dr{\"a}ngte sich ein mathematikdidaktischer Habitus auf, der eine separate Untersuchung erzwang. Ich habe ihn unter dem Stichwort der „Abkehr von der Sache" zusammengefasst. Er ist gepr{\"a}gt von Zerst{\"o}rungen des Mathematischen bei gleichzeitiger {\"U}berbetonung des Fachsprachlichen und durch Verwerfungen des Mathematischen und des Realen bei realit{\"a}tsnahen Aufgaben. Letzteres gr{\"u}ndet in der Nicht-beachtung der Authentizit{\"a}t sowohl des Realen als auch des Mathematischen. Die Arbeit versammelt neben den Untersuchungen zu TIMSS und PISA ein ausf{\"u}hrliches Kapitel {\"u}ber das Prob-lem des Testens und eine Darstellung der Methodologie und Praxis der Objektiven Hermeneutik.},
  language  = {de}
}
@unpublished{Schulze2003,
  author    = {Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang},
  title     = {Toeplitz operators, and ellipticity of boundary value problems with global projection conditions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26510},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Ellipticity of (pseudo-) differential operators A on a compact manifold X with boundary (or with edges) Y is connected with boundary (or edge) conditions of trace and potential type, formulated in terms of global projections on Y together with an additional symbolic structure. This gives rise to operator block matrices A with A in the upper left corner. We study an algebra of such operators, where ellipticity is equivalent to the Fredhom property in suitable scales of spaces: Sobolev spaces on X plus closed subspaces of Sobolev spaces on Y which are the range of corresponding pseudo-differential projections. Moreover, we express parametrices of elliptic elements within our algebra and discuss spectral boundary value problems for differential operators.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DinesHarutjunjanSchulze2003,
  author    = {Dines, Nicoleta and Harutjunjan, Gohar and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang},
  title     = {The Zaremba problem in edge Sobolev spaces},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26615},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Mixed elliptic boundary value problems are characterised by conditions which have a jump along an interface of codimension 1 on the boundary. We study such problems in weighted edge Sobolev spaces and show the Fredholm property and the existence of parametrices under additional conditions of trace and potential type on the interface. Our methods from the calculus of boundary value problems on a manifold with edges will be illustrated by the Zaremba problem and other mixed problems for the Laplace operator.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Davis2003,
  author    = {Davis, Simon},
  title     = {The quantum cosmological wavefunction at very early times for a quadratic gravity theory},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26520},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {The quantum cosmological wavefunction for a quadratic gravity theory derived from the heterotic string effective action is obtained near the inflationary epoch and during the initial Planck era. Neglecting derivatives with respect to the scalar field, the wavefunction would satisfy a third-order differential equation near the inflationary epoch which has a solution that is singular in the scale factor limit a(t) → 0. When scalar field derivatives are included, a sixth-order differential equation is obtained for the wavefunction and the solution by Mellin transform is regular in the a → 0 limit. It follows that inclusion of the scalar field in the quadratic gravity action is necessary for consistency of the quantum cosmology of the theory at very early times.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Liero2003,
  author    = {Liero, Hannelore},
  title     = {Testing the Hazard Rate, Part I},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51510},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We consider a nonparametric survival model with random censoring. To test whether the hazard rate has a parametric form the unknown hazard rate is estimated by a kernel estimator. Based on a limit theorem stating the asymptotic normality of the quadratic distance of this estimator from the smoothed hypothesis an asymptotic ®-test is proposed. Since the test statistic depends on the maximum likelihood estimator for the unknown parameter in the hypothetical model properties of this parameter estimator are investigated. Power considerations complete the approach.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Ginoux2003,
  author    = {Ginoux, Nicolas},
  title     = {Remarques sur le spectre de l'op{\´e}rateur de Dirac},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-5630},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Nous d{\´e}crivons un nouvelle famille d'exemples d'hypersurfaces de la sph{\`e}re satisfaisant le cas d'{\´e}galit{\´e} de la majoration extrins{\`e}que de C. B{\"a}r de la plus petite valeur propre de l'op{\´e}rateur de Dirac.},
  language  = {fr}
}
@unpublished{FedosovSchulzeTarkhanov2003,
  author    = {Fedosov, Boris and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang and Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {On index theorem for symplectic orbifolds},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26550},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We give an explicit construction of the trace on the algebra of quantum observables on a symplectic orbifold and propose an index formula.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DeDonnoSchulze2003,
  author    = {De Donno, G. and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang},
  title     = {Meromorphic symbolic structures for boundary value problems on manifolds with edges},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26570},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We investigate the ideal of Green and Mellin operators with asymtotics for a manifold with edge-corner singularities and boundary which belongs to the structure of parametrices of elliptic boundary value problems on a configuration with corners whose base manifolds have edges.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DinesSchulze2003,
  author    = {Dines, Nicoleta and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang},
  title     = {Mellin-edge representations of elliptic operators},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26627},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We construct a class of elliptic operators in the edge algebra on a manifold M with an embedded submanifold Y interpreted as an edge. The ellipticity refers to a principal symbolic structure consisting of the standard interior symbol and an operator-valued edge symbol. Given a differential operator A on M for every (sufficiently large) s we construct an associated operator As in the edge calculus. We show that ellipticity of A in the usual sense entails ellipticity of As as an edge operator (up to a discrete set of reals s). Parametrices P of A then correspond to parametrices Ps of As, interpreted as Mellin-edge representations of P.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Witt2003,
  author    = {Witt, Ingo},
  title     = {Green formulae for cone differential operators},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26633},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Green formulae for elliptic cone differential operators are established. This is achieved by an accurate description of the maximal domain of an elliptic cone differential operator and its formal adjoint; thereby utilizing the concept of a discrete asymptotic type. From this description, the singular coefficients replacing the boundary traces in classical Green formulas are deduced.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Liero2003,
  author    = {Liero, Hannelore},
  title     = {Goodness of Fit Tests of L2-Type},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51494},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We give a survey on procedures for testing functions which are based on quadratic deviation measures. The following problems are considered: Testing whether a density function lies in a parametric class of functions, whether continuous random variables are independent; testing cell probabilities and independence in sparse data sets; testing the parametric fit of a regression homoscedasticity in a regression model and testing the hazard rate in survival models with censoring and with and without covariates.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DeXingHui2003,
  author    = {De-Xing, Kong and Hui, Yao},
  title     = {Global exact boundary controllability of a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26565},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {In this paper, by a new constructive method, the authors reprove the global exact boundary controllability of a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linearly degenerate fields. It is shown that the system with nonlinear boundary conditions is globally exactly boundary controllable in the class of piecewise C¹ functions. In particular, the authors give the optimal control time of the system. Finally, a new application is also given.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Laeuter2003,
  author    = {L{\"a}uter, Henning},
  title     = {Estimation in partly parametric additive Cox models},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51509},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {The dependence between survival times and covariates is described e.g. by proportional hazard models. We consider partly parametric Cox models and discuss here the estimation of interesting parameters. We represent the ma- ximum likelihood approach and extend the results of Huang (1999) from linear to nonlinear parameters. Then we investigate the least squares esti- mation and formulate conditions for the a.s. boundedness and consistency of these estimators.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{NazaikinskiiSavinSchulzeetal.2003,
  author    = {Nazaikinskii, Vladimir and Savin, Anton and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang and Sternin, Boris},
  title     = {Elliptic theory on manifolds with nonisolated singularities : V. Index formulas for elliptic problems on manifolds with edges},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26500},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {For elliptic problems on manifolds with edges, we construct index formulas in form of a sum of homotopy invariant contributions of the strata (the interior of the manifold and the edge). Both terms are the indices of elliptic operators, one of which acts in spaces of sections of finite-dimensional vector bundles on a compact closed manifold and the other in spaces of sections of infinite-dimensional vector bundles over the edge.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{NazaikinskiiSavinSchulzeetal.2003,
  author    = {Nazaikinskii, Vladimir and Savin, Anton and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang and Sternin, Boris},
  title     = {Differential operators on manifolds with singularities : analysis and topology : Chapter 5: Manifolds with isolated singularities},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26659},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Contents: Chapter 5: Manifolds with Isolated Singularities 5.1. Differential Operators and the Geometry of Singularities 5.1.1. How do isolated singularities arise? Examples 5.1.2. Definition and methods for the description of manifolds with isolated singularities 5.1.3. Bundles. The cotangent bundle 5.2. Asymptotics of Solutions, Function Spaces,Conormal Symbols 5.2.1. Conical singularities 5.2.2. Cuspidal singularities 5.3. A Universal Representation of Degenerate Operators and the Finiteness Theorem 5.3.1. The cylindrical representation 5.3.2. Continuity and compactness 5.3.3. Ellipticity and the finiteness theorem 5.4. Calculus of ΨDO 5.4.1. General ΨDO 5.4.2. The subalgebra of stabilizing ΨDO 5.4.3. Ellipticity and the finiteness theorem},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{NazaikinskiiSavinSchulzeetal.2003,
  author    = {Nazaikinskii, Vladimir and Savin, Anton and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang and Sternin, Boris},
  title     = {Differential operators on manifolds with singularities : analysis and topology : Chapter 4: Pseudodifferential operators},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26587},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Contents: Chapter 4: Pseudodifferential Operators 4.1. Preliminary Remarks 4.1.1. Why are pseudodifferential operators needed? 4.1.2. What is a pseudodifferential operator? 4.1.3. What properties should the pseudodifferential calculus possess? 4.2. Classical Pseudodifferential Operators on Smooth Manifolds 4.2.1. Definition of pseudodifferential operators on a manifold 4.2.2. H{\"o}rmander's definition of pseudodifferential operators 4.2.3. Basic properties of pseudodifferential operators 4.3. Pseudodifferential Operators in Sections of Hilbert Bundles 4.3.1. Hilbert bundles 4.3.2. Operator-valued symbols. Specific features of the infinite-dimensional case 4.3.3. Symbols of compact fiber variation 4.3.4. Definition of pseudodifferential operators 4.3.5. The composition theorem 4.3.6. Ellipticity 4.3.7. The finiteness theorem 4.4. The Index Theorem 4.4.1. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem 4.4.2. The index theorem for pseudodifferential operators in sections of Hilbert bundles 4.4.3. Proof of the index theorem 4.5. Bibliographical Remarks},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{NazaikinskiiSavinSchulzeetal.2003,
  author    = {Nazaikinskii, Vladimir and Savin, Anton and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang and Sternin, Boris},
  title     = {Differential operators on manifolds with singularities : analysis and topology : Chapter 3: Eta invariant and the spectral flow},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26595},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Contents: Chapter 3: Eta Invariant and the Spectral Flow 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The Classical Spectral Flow 3.2.1. Definition and main properties 3.2.2. The spectral flow formula for periodic families 3.3. The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Eta Invariant 3.3.1. Definition of the eta invariant 3.3.2. Variation under deformations of the operator 3.3.3. Homotopy invariance. Examples 3.4. The Eta Invariant of Families with Parameter (Melrose's Theory) 3.4.1. A trace on the algebra of parameter-dependent operators 3.4.2. Definition of the Melrose eta invariant 3.4.3. Relationship with the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer eta invariant 3.4.4. Locality of the derivative of the eta invariant. Examples 3.5. The Spectral Flow of Families of Parameter-Dependent Operators 3.5.1. Meromorphic operator functions. Multiplicities of singular points 3.5.2. Definition of the spectral flow 3.6. Higher Spectral Flows 3.6.1. Spectral sections 3.6.2. Spectral flow of homotopies of families of self-adjoint operators 3.6.3. Spectral flow of homotopies of families of parameter-dependent operators 3.7. Bibliographical Remarks},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{NazaikinskiiSavinSchulzeetal.2003,
  author    = {Nazaikinskii, Vladimir and Savin, Anton and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang and Sternin, Boris},
  title     = {Differential operators on manifolds with singularities : analysis and topology : Chapter 1: Localization (surgery) in elliptic theory},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26546},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Contents: Chapter 1: Localization (Surgery) in Elliptic Theory 1.1. The Index Locality Principle 1.1.1. What is locality? 1.1.2. A pilot example 1.1.3. Collar spaces 1.1.4. Elliptic operators 1.1.5. Surgery and the relative index theorem 1.2. Surgery in Index Theory on Smooth Manifolds 1.2.1. The Booß-Wojciechowski theorem 1.2.2. The Gromov-Lawson theorem 1.3. Surgery for Boundary Value Problems 1.3.1. Notation 1.3.2. General boundary value problems 1.3.3. A model boundary value problem on a cylinder 1.3.4. The Agranovich-Dynin theorem 1.3.5. The Agranovich theorem 1.3.6. Bojarski's theorem and its generalizations 1.4. (Micro)localization in Lefschetz theory 1.4.1. The Lefschetz number 1.4.2. Localization and the contributions of singular points 1.4.3. The semiclassical method and microlocalization 1.4.4. The classical Atiyah-Bott-Lefschetz theorem},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Schulze2003,
  author    = {Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang},
  title     = {Crack theory with singularties at the boundary},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26600},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We investigate crack problems, where the crack boundary has conical singularities. Elliptic operators with two-sided elliptc boundary conditions on the plus and minus sides of the crack will be interpreted as elements of a corner algebra of boundary value problems. The corresponding operators will be completed by extra edge conditions on the crack boundary to Fredholm operators in corner Sobolev spaces with double weights, and there are parametrices within the calculus.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{KapanadzeSchulze2003,
  author    = {Kapanadze, David and Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang},
  title     = {Asymptotics of potentials in the edge calculus},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26530},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {Boundary value problems on manifolds with conical singularities or edges contain potential operators as well as trace and Green operators which play a similar role as the corresponding operators in (pseudo-differential) boundary value problems on a smooth manifold. There is then a specific asymptotic behaviour of these operators close to the singularities. We characterise potential operators in terms of actions of cone or edge pseudo-differential operators (in the neighbouring space) on densities supported by sbmanifolds which also have conical or edge singularities. As a byproduct we show the continuity of such potentials as continuous perators between cone or edge Sobolev spaces and subspaces with asymptotics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Camales2003,
  author    = {Camal{\`e}s, Renaud},
  title     = {A note on the ramified Cauchy problem},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26646},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {In this paper, the ramified Cauchy problem in C² for operator with multiple characteristics of constant multiplicity and second member ramified around some analytic set is studied.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Tarkhanov2003,
  author    = {Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {A fixed point formula in one complex variable},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26495},
  year      = {2003},
  abstract  = {We show a Lefschetz fixed point formula for holomorphic functions in a bounded domain D with smooth boundary in the complex plane. To introduce the Lefschetz number for a holomorphic map of D, we make use of the Bergman kernal of this domain. The Lefschetz number is proved to be the sum of usual contributions of fixed points of the map in D and contributions of boundary fixed points, these latter being different for attracting and repulsing fixed points.},
  language  = {en}
}