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UC Irvine Spring 2024, 3 Real analysis, Lipschitz functions, distance to a set, sequence spaces

Let ๐ด be a non-empty subset of โ„“โˆž(โ„•). Define ๐‘“:โ„“โˆž(โ„•)โ†’โ„ by

๐‘“(๐‘ฅ)=inf๐‘ฆโˆˆ๐ดโˆฅ๐‘ฅโˆ’๐‘ฆโˆฅโ„“โˆž.

Prove that ๐‘“ is Lipschitz with constant 1, that is, for any ๐‘ฅ,๐‘ฆโˆˆโ„“โˆž(โ„•),

|๐‘“(๐‘ฅ)โˆ’๐‘“(๐‘ฆ)|โ‰คโˆฅ๐‘ฅโˆ’๐‘ฆโˆฅโ„“โˆž.
UC Irvine Spring 2024, 3 Real analysis, monotone functions, derivatives almost everywhere, integral inequalities

Let ๐‘“:[0,1]โ†’โ„ be non-decreasing. Recalling that this assumption implies that ๐‘“โ€ฒ(๐‘ฅ) exists for almost all ๐‘ฅโˆˆ[0,1] (with respect to Lebesgue measure ๐‘‘๐‘ฅ), prove that

โˆซ01๐‘“โ€ฒ(๐‘ฅ)d๐‘ฅโ‰ค๐‘“(1)โˆ’๐‘“(0).
Stanford Spring 2024, 4 Real analysis, Fourier transform, Lp spaces

Let โ„ฑ๏ธ€ denote the Fourier transform on โ„๐‘›.

(a) Prove that there exists ๐ถ>0 such that the following holds for all ๐‘“โˆˆ๐’ฎ๏ธ€(โ„๐‘›):

โ€–โ„ฑ๏ธ€๐‘“โ€–๐ฟ๐‘โ€ฒโ‰ค๐ถโ€–๐‘“โ€–๐ฟ๐‘,โˆ€1โ‰ค๐‘โ‰ค2,1๐‘โ€ฒ+1๐‘=1.

(b) Prove that there exists ๐ถ>0 such that the following holds. For any Lebesgue measurable ๐ธโŠ‚โ„๐‘› with โ„’๏ธ€๐‘›(๐ธ)<โˆž and for all ๐‘“โˆˆ๐’ฎ๏ธ€(โ„๐‘›) with supp(โ„ฑ๏ธ€๐‘“)โŠ‚๐ธ:

โ€–๐‘“โ€–๐ฟ๐‘žโ‰ค๐ถ(โ„’๏ธ€๐‘›(๐ธ))1๐‘โˆ’1๐‘žโ€–๐‘“โ€–๐ฟ๐‘โˆ€1โ‰ค๐‘โ‰ค๐‘žโ‰คโˆž,1โ‰ค๐‘โ‰ค2.
Stanford Spring 2024, 4 Real analysis, Lebesgue measure, Vitali covering lemma

If ๐‘ˆโŠ‚โ„๐‘› is a bounded open set and ๐›ฟ>0, prove that there is a countable collection of closed balls such that ๐œŒ๐‘–โˆˆ(0,๐›ฟ) for all ๐‘–,

whenever ๐‘–โ‰ ๐‘— and , where โ„’๏ธ€๐‘› denotes the Lebesgue measure.

UC Irvine Spring 2024, 4 Real analysis, uniform continuity, bounded sets

Let ๐ธโŠ‚โ„ be a bounded set, and let ๐‘“:๐ธโ†’โ„ be a uniformly continuous function. Prove that ๐‘“ is bounded on ๐ธ.

UC Irvine Spring 2024, 4 Real analysis, superlevel sets, symmetric difference, sigma-finite measures

Suppose that (๐‘‹,๐ต,๐œ‡) is a measure space and ๐‘“:๐‘‹โ†’โ„ and ๐‘”:๐‘‹โ†’โ„ are integrable. For each ๐‘กโˆˆโ„, set

๐ด๐‘กโ‰”{๐‘ฅโˆˆ๐‘‹|๐‘“(๐‘ฅ)>๐‘ก}

and

๐ต๐‘กโ‰”{๐‘ฅโˆˆ๐‘‹|๐‘”(๐‘ฅ)>๐‘ก}.

Part a: Assume that (๐‘‹,๐ต,๐œ‡) is ๐œŽ-finite. Prove that

โˆซ๐‘‹|๐‘“โˆ’๐‘”|d๐œ‡=โˆซโˆ’โˆžโˆž๐œ‡(๐ด๐‘กฮ”๐ต๐‘ก)d๐‘ก.

Here, for subsets ๐ถ and ๐ท of a set ๐‘Œ,

๐ถฮ”๐ทโ‰”(๐ถ\๐ท)โˆช(๐ท\๐ถ)

denotes their symmetric difference.

Part b: Show that the conclusion of part (a) holds even if (๐‘‹,๐ต,๐œ‡) is not ๐œŽ-finite.

Stanford Spring 2024, 5 Real analysis, locally convex spaces, convergence in measure

Let ๐ฟ0([0,1]) be the vector space of Lebesgue measurable functions. Let ๐‘‘ be the metric on ๐ฟ0([0,1]) given by

๐‘‘(๐‘“,๐‘”)=โˆซ01|๐‘“โˆ’๐‘”|(๐‘ฅ)1+|๐‘“โˆ’๐‘”|(๐‘ฅ)d๐‘ฅ.

(a) Prove that ๐‘“๐‘›โ†’๐‘“ in the metric ๐‘‘ if and only if ๐‘“๐‘›โ†’๐‘“ in measure.

(b) Let ๐’ฐ๏ธ€โŠ‚๐ฟ0([0,1]) be a non-empty open convex neighborhood of 0. Prove that ๐’ฐ๏ธ€=๐ฟ0([0,1]).

(c) Suppose ๐‘‡:(๐ฟ0([0,1]),๐‘‘)โ†’โ„ is a continuous linear function. Prove that ๐‘‡ is the zero map.

Stanford Spring 2024, 5 Real analysis, Borel measures, weak-star convergence of measures, absolute continuity

Let โŠค=โ„/(2๐œ‹โ„ค). Given ๐‘กโˆˆโ„ and any Borel measure ๐œ‡ on โŠค, define its translate ๐œ‡๐‘ก by ๐œ‡๐‘ก(๐ด)=๐œ‡(๐ด๐‘ก), where ๐ด๐‘ก={๐‘ฅ:๐‘ฅ+๐‘กโˆˆ๐ด} for any Borel set ๐ด.

(a) Is the map ๐‘กโ†ฆ๐œ‡๐‘ก necessarily continuous in the topology given by the dual norm, where measures are viewed as the dual of ๐ถ(โŠค)? Prove or disprove.

(b) Is the map ๐‘กโ†ฆ๐œ‡๐‘ก necessarily continuous in the weak-* topology on measures as the dual of ๐ถ(โŠค)? Prove or disprove.

(c) Is the map ๐‘กโ†ฆ๐œ‡๐‘ก(๐ด) necessarily continuous when ๐ด is Borel? Prove or disprove.

(d) Is the map ๐‘กโ†ฆ๐œ‡๐‘ก(๐ด) necessarily continuous if we in addition assume that ๐œ‡ is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure? Prove or disprove.

UC Irvine Spring 2024, 5 Real analysis, Dini's theorem, monotone convergence, compact metric spaces

Let ๐‘‹ be a compact metric space and let ๐‘“:๐‘‹โ†’โ„ and ๐‘“๐‘›:๐‘‹โ†’โ„ be continuous functions for ๐‘›โˆˆโ„•. Assume that ๐‘“๐‘›โ‰ค๐‘“๐‘›+1 for all ๐‘›โˆˆโ„• and that ๐‘“๐‘› converges pointwise to ๐‘“. Show that the convergence is uniform and that this claim is not true in general if ๐‘“ is not assumed to be continuous.

UC Irvine Spring 2024, 5 Real analysis, mollifiers, uniform convergence, L^p convergence

For ๐‘ฅโˆˆโ„ and ๐‘ก>0, let

๐œŒ(๐‘ฅ)โ‰”max{1โˆ’|๐‘ฅ|,0}

and

๐œŒ๐‘ก(๐‘ฅ)โ‰”๐‘ก๐œŒ(๐‘ก๐‘ฅ).

Part a: Let ๐‘ข be a continuous function on โ„ that vanishes outside of a compact set. Prove that the functions

๐‘ข๐‘ก(๐‘ฅ)โ‰”โˆซโ„๐œŒ๐‘ก(๐‘ฅโˆ’๐‘ฆ)๐‘ข(๐‘ฆ)d๐‘ฆ

converge uniformly to ๐‘ข on โ„ as ๐‘กโ†’โˆž.

Part b: Let ๐‘ขโˆˆ๐ฟ๐‘(โ„) for some ๐‘โˆˆ[1,โˆž). Prove that the functions

๐‘ข๐‘ก(๐‘ฅ)โ‰”โˆซโ„๐œŒ๐‘ก(๐‘ฅโˆ’๐‘ฆ)๐‘ข(๐‘ฆ)d๐‘ฆ

converge to ๐‘ข in ๐ฟ๐‘(โ„) as ๐‘กโ†’โˆž.

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