Module MA3421: Functional Analysis I
- Credit weighting (ECTS)
- 5 credits
- Semester/term taught
- Michaelmas term 2018-19
- Contact Hours
- 11 weeks, 3 lectures including tutorials per week
- Lecturer
- Prof John Stalker
- Learning Outcomes
- On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Give the appropriate definitions, theorems and proofs concerning the syllabus topics, including topics in general topology, elementary theory of Banach spaces and of linear operators;
- Solve problems requiring manipulation or application of one or more of the concepts and results studied;
- Formulate mathematical arguments in appropriately precise terms for the subject matter;
- Apply their knowledge in mathematical domains where functional analytic techniques are relevant;
- Module Content
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- General Topology: Review of metric spaces, definition of topological space, open/closed/boundary, continuity, limits of sequences, compactness, bases, second countability, separability, sub-bases, weak and product topologies, neighbourhood bases, first countability.
- Normed and Banach spaces: Definitions and examples for Banach spaces and bounded linear operators. Examples include some `classical' Banach spaces $C(X)$, $\ell^p$, $c_0$, $L^p([0,1])$ and more general $L^p$ examples ($1 \leq p \leq \infty$). Use of series in Banach spaces (convergent or absolutely convergent), basic concepts from Lebesgue integration. we show Hölder's and Minkowski's inequalities (vesions for sums and integrals). $\ell^p$ increases with $p$ while $L^p([0,1])$ decreases and the inclusion maps as examples of operators.
- Baire category theorem and some of its consequences (open mapping). An application to Fourier series.
For further information refer to the module web pages.
- Module Prerequisite
- MA2223-Metric Spaces and MA2224-Lebesque Integral are desirable
- Assessment Detail
- This module will be examined in a 2 hour examination in Michaelmas term. Continuous assessment will contribute 10% to the final grade for the module at the annual examination session.