MATH 608 Section 600
Real Variables II
Spring 2023
Instructor: Florent Baudier
Office: Blocker 525J
Office hours: M 5:30-6:30 p.m. or by appointment
Lectures: MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m. BLOC 110
Course description: Banach spaces, theorems of Hahn-Banach and Banach-Steinhaus, the closed graph and open mapping theorems, Hilbert spaces, topological vector spaces and weak topologies.
Textbook:
Real Analysis (Modern Techniques and Their Applications), Second Edition, Gerald B. Folland
Exams
Midterm Exam : Wednesday, March 8, 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m. (classroom: Blocker 110)
Final exam: Friday, May 5, 2023, 3:30-5:30 p.m. (in the regular classroom).
Homework  
Schedule
Date of Class Material covered
Wednesday 01/18 General Topology: definitions, examples, relative topology, convergence of sequences, continuity of function, interior, closure, boundary, accumulation points, dense, nowhere dense
Separation axioms: T1, T2 (Hausdorff)
Monday 01/23 Local base, base, subbase, topology generated by a collection, local continuity
Wenesday 01/25 Neighborhoods, countability axioms: first countable, second countable, nets
Monday 01/30 cluster points, limit points, Kelley subnets, cofinal subnets
Wednesday 02/01 class canceled due to inclement weather
Monday 02/06 compactness
Wednesday 02/08 normal spaces, Urysohn Lemma, Tietze extension theorem, initial topologies
Monday 02/13 product topology, Tychonoff compactness theorem, Arzela-Ascoli
Wednesday 02/15 Class does not meet
Monday 02/20 Stone-Weierstrass theorem(s)
Wednesday 02/22 Baire spaces, equivalent characterizations, applications, Baire Category Theorem, meager sets, normed vector spaces, Banach spaces
Monday 02/27 continuous linear maps, completness criterion, completness of L(X,Y), weak and strong Uniform Boundedness Principle, Banach-Steinhaus theorem
Wednesday 03/01 Isomorphisms, open maps, Open Mapping Theorem, Bounded Inverse Theorem, sums of Banach spaces, Closed Graph Theorem
Monday 04/06 (extended lecture) Linear functionals, dual space, algebraic/analytic Hahn-Banach Theorem(s) and consequences, locally convex topological vector spaces, topologies generated by semi-norms, definitions of weak and weak* topologies
Wednesday 03/08 MIDTERM,
Monday 03/13 Spring Break
Wednesday 03/15 Spring Break
Monday 03/20 Alaoglu's theorem, useful algebraic lemmas, important facts about the weak and weak* topologies, gauge of a convex, geometric forms of the Hahn-Banach theorem, applications
Wednesday 03/22 Lp-spaces, Holder's inequality, Minkowski's inequality, completness of Lp
Monday 03/27 density of simple functions, L&infty;-spaces, sums and intersections of Lp-spaces, interpolation inequality
Wednesday 03/29 Comparing Lp-spaces, Hilbert spaces, orthogonality, Pythagorean theorem, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, parallelogram law, polarization identity
Monday 04/03 Bessel's inequality, Parseval's identity, orthogonal bases, unitary operators,
Wednesday 04/05 linear vs bounded linear projections, complemented subspaces, orthogonal projections, duality of Hilbert spaces
Monday 04/10 duality of Lp-spaces, weak Lp-spaces
Wednesday 04/12 Interpolation: Riesz-Thorin interpolation theorem, Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem
Monday 04/17 Class does not meet
Wednesday 04/19 Class does not meet
Monday 04/24 (extended lecture) bounded linear functional on the Banach space of complex-valued continuous functions with compact support or vanishing at infinity on a locally compact Hausdorff space: reduction to real-functionals on the subspace of real-valued functions, Jordan decomposition of linear functionals
Wednesday 04/26 (extended lecture) positive Radon measures, subordinated partition of unity, Riesz-Markov-Kakutani representation of positive linear functionals.
Monday 05/01 Complex measures, polar decomposition, total variation norm, Banach space of complex Radon measures, Lusin's aproximation theorem, C0(X)*=Radon(X)
Wednesday 05/03 Reading Day, No Classes
Friday 05/05 FINAL EXAM 3:30-5:30 pm