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Stanford Spring 2018, 5 Real analysis, distributions, Fourier series, weak-star topology

Let ๐ด=(2111). Then ๐ด acts on โŠค2=โ„2/โ„ค2 by matrix multiplication, and thus on ๐ถ(โŠค2) via pullback: (ฮฆ๐ด๐‘“)(๐‘ฅ)=๐‘“(๐ด๐‘ฅ), ๐‘“โˆˆ๐ถ(โŠค2), ๐‘ฅโˆˆโŠค2.

(a) Show that the action on ๐ถ(โŠค2) extends to a weak-* continuous action on ๐’Ÿ๏ธ€โ€ฒ(โŠค2), i.e. on distributions on the torus.

(b) Express the Fourier coefficients ฮฆ๐ด๐‘ขฬ‚(๐‘˜), ๐‘˜โˆˆโ„ค2, of ฮฆ๐ด๐‘ขโˆˆ๐’Ÿ๏ธ€โ€ฒ(โŠค2) in terms of the Fourier coefficients of ๐‘ข. (Recall that the Fourier series of ๐‘“ on โŠค2 is of the form โˆ‘๐‘˜โˆˆโ„ค2๐‘“ฬ‚(๐‘˜)๐‘’2๐œ‹๐‘–๐‘˜โ‹…๐‘ฅ.)

(c) Show that if ๐‘“โˆˆ๐ฟ1(โŠค2) and ฮฆ๐ด๐‘“=๐‘“, then ๐‘“ is an a.e. constant function.

(d) Show that the space of invariant distributions, i.e. ๐‘ขโˆˆ๐’Ÿ๏ธ€โ€ฒ(โŠค2) such that ฮฆ๐ด๐‘ข=๐‘ข, is however infinite dimensional.

Stanford Spring 2019, 1 Real analysis, weak derivatives, absolute continuity

Prove that if ๐‘“โˆˆ๐ฟ1 and its distributional derivative ๐‘“โ€ฒ is also in ๐ฟ1, then ๐‘“ is absolutely continuous.

Stanford Spring 2019, 1 Real analysis, sequence spaces, Baire category

(a) Prove that there is an uncountable number of disjoint balls of radius 1 in โ„“โˆž, and hence โ„“โˆž is not separable.

(b) Show that on the other hand โ„“1 is separable.

Stanford Spring 2019, 2 Real analysis, Borel-Cantelli, normal numbers

Let (๐‘‹,๐œ‡) be a measure space such that ๐œ‡(๐‘‹)=1. Assume that the functions ๐‘“๐‘›(๐‘ฅ), ๐‘ฅโˆˆ๐‘‹ are measurable and for each ๐‘ฆโˆˆโ„ and ๐‘›โˆˆโ„• we have

๐œ‡{๐‘ฅ:๐‘“๐‘›(๐‘ฅ)<๐‘ฆ}=โˆซโˆ’โˆž๐‘ฆ๐‘’โˆ’๐‘ก2/2d๐‘ก2๐œ‹.

Show that for almost every ๐‘ฅโˆˆ๐‘‹ (with respect to the measure ๐œ‡) there exist only finitely many ๐‘›โˆˆโ„• such that |๐‘“๐‘›(๐‘ฅ)|>2019log๐‘›.

Hint: use the Borel-Cantelli lemma.

Stanford Spring 2019, 2 Real analysis, Fourier transform, oscillatory integrals

Show that for each ๐‘˜โˆˆโ„โˆ’{0} the limit

๐ผ(๐‘˜)โ‰”lim๐‘…โ†’+โˆžโˆซโˆ’๐‘…๐‘…๐‘’๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘ฅ1+|๐‘ฅ|d๐‘ฅ

exists, and find all ๐‘šโˆˆโ„ such that lim๐‘˜โ†’0|๐‘˜|๐‘š๐ผ(๐‘˜)=0.

Stanford Spring 2019, 3 Real analysis, Hahn-Banach

A form of the Hahn-Banach theorem states that if ๐‘‹ is a normed vector space over either ๐”ฝ=โ„ (real version) or ๐”ฝ=โ„‚ (complex version), ๐‘Œ a subspace, โ„“:๐‘Œโ†’๐”ฝ a ๐”ฝ-linear map with |โ„“(๐‘ฆ)|โ‰คโ€–๐‘ฆโ€– for all ๐‘ฆโˆˆ๐‘Œ then there is a ๐”ฝ-linear map ๐ฟ:๐‘‹โ†’๐”ฝ such that ๐ฟ|๐‘Œ=โ„“ and |๐ฟ(๐‘ฅ)|โ‰คโ€–๐‘ฅโ€– for all ๐‘ฅโˆˆ๐‘‹.

Given the real version of the Hahn-Banach theorem, prove the complex version.

Stanford Spring 2019, 3 Real analysis, reflexivity, weak topology, bounded operators

Suppose ๐‘‹,๐‘Œ are reflexive Banach spaces, ๐ด๐‘›โˆˆโ„’๏ธ€(๐‘‹,๐‘Œ) for ๐‘›โˆˆโ„•. Suppose that for all ๐‘ฅโˆˆ๐‘‹ and for all โ„“โˆˆ๐‘Œโˆ—, lim๐‘›โ†’โˆžโ„“(๐ด๐‘›๐‘ฅ) exists. Show that there exists ๐ดโˆˆโ„’๏ธ€(๐‘‹,๐‘Œ) such that ๐ด๐‘›โ†’๐ด in the weak operator topology. Give an example of ๐ด๐‘› satisfying these assumptions such that ๐ด๐‘› does not converge to ๐ด in the strong operator topology.

Stanford Spring 2019, 4 Real analysis, compact operators, Hilbert space geometry

Recall that ๐ด is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator (on a separable Hilbert space ๐ป) if โˆ‘๐‘›โˆˆโ„•โ€–๐ด๐‘’๐‘›โ€–2<โˆž for an orthonormal basis {๐‘’๐‘›:๐‘›โˆˆโ„•}.

(a) Prove that every Hilbert-Schmidt operator is compact, but there exist compact operators which are not Hilbert-Schmidt.

(b) Let ๐ป=๐ฟ2((0,1)) and suppose that (๐ด๐‘“)(๐‘ฅ)=โˆซ0๐‘ฅ๐‘“(๐‘ฆ)d๐‘ฆ. Prove that ๐ด is Hilbert-Schmidt.

Stanford Spring 2019, 4 Real analysis, Sobolev spaces, distributional derivatives

Let ๐ป1(โ„2) be the subspace of ๐ฟ2(โ„2) consisting of ๐‘“โˆˆ๐ฟ2(โ„2) with the distributional derivatives of ๐‘“ satisfying , ๐‘—=1,2. Define ๐‘‹๐‘— as the completion of ๐’ฎ๏ธ€(โ„2) (Schwartz functions) with respect to the norm

where is the ๐‘—th partial, ๐‘—=1,2. Show that ๐‘‹๐‘— is (naturally identified with) a subspace of ๐ฟ2(โ„2) (i.e. the inclusion from ๐’ฎ๏ธ€(โ„2) into ๐ฟ2(โ„2) extends to an injective continuous linear map from ๐‘‹๐‘— to ๐ฟ2(โ„2)), and ๐‘‹1โˆฉ๐‘‹2=๐ป1(โ„2).

Stanford Spring 2019, 5 Real analysis, Sobolev spaces, Fourier transform

For ๐‘ โ‰ฅ0 define ๐ป๐‘ (โ„) to be the subspace of ๐ฟ2(โ„) consisting of ๐‘“โˆˆ๐ฟ2(โ„) with โˆซโ„(1+|๐œ‰|2)๐‘ |๐‘“ฬ‚(๐œ‰)|2d๐œ‰<โˆž, and let โ€–๐‘“โ€–๐ป๐‘ (โ„)โ‰”โ€–(1+|๐œ‰|2)๐‘ /2๐‘“ฬ‚(๐œ‰)โ€–๐ฟ2(โ„), where ๐‘“ฬ‚ denotes the Fourier transform of ๐‘“.

(a) Prove that for every ๐‘ >1/2, there exists a constant ๐ถ>0 (depending only on ๐‘ ) such that for every ๐‘“โˆˆ๐ป๐‘ (โ„),

โ€–๐‘“โ€–๐ฟโˆž(โ„)โ‰ค๐ถโ€–๐‘“โ€–๐ป๐‘ (โ„).

(b) Show if ๐‘ข,๐‘ฃโˆˆ๐ป1(โ„) then their product ๐‘ข๐‘ฃโˆˆ๐ป1(โ„) and there is ๐ถโ€ฒ>0 such that

โ€–๐‘ข๐‘ฃโ€–๐ป1(โ„)โ‰ค๐ถโ€ฒโ€–๐‘ขโ€–๐ป1(โ„)โ€–๐‘ฃโ€–๐ป1(โ„).

Hint: show and use that โ€–๐‘ขโ€–๐ป1(โ„) is a constant multiple of (โ€–๐‘ขโ€–๐ฟ22+โ€–๐‘ขโ€ฒโ€–๐ฟ22)1/2.

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