Basic Methods of Linear Functional Analysis

John D. Pryce

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780486483849
• eBook ISBN: 9780486173634
• Topic: Mathematics
• Subtopic: Functional Analysis
• Index: Mathematics

An introduction to the themes of mathematical analysis, this text is geared toward advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It assumes a familiarity with basic real analysis, metric space theory, linear algebra, and minimal knowledge of measures and Lebesgue integration, all of which are surveyed in the first chapter.
Subsequent chapters explore the basic results of linear functional analysis: Stone-Weierstrass, Hahn-Banach, uniform boundedness and open mapping theorems, dual spaces, and basic properties of operators. Additional topics include function spaces, the Tychonov and Alaoglu theorems, Hilbert spaces, elementary Fourier analysis, and compact self-adjoint operators applied to Sturm-Liouville theory. "The author has a delightfully lively style which makes the book very readable," noted the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, "and there are numerous interesting and instructive problems."

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PRELIMINARIES

1. Metric spaces and topological spaces

This section covers concisely those portions of metric space theory needed in elementary functional analysis, as well as some very elementary theory of topological spaces. The latter are not really needed outside §16, where they are essential; in §6, where they also occur, none of the interest is lost if the reader prefers to substitute ‘metric space’ for ‘topological space’ wherever the latter occurs.

1.1 A metric on a set X is a non-negative real-valued function don X × X obeying the rules:

The number d(x, y) is called the distance from x to y. A pair (X, d), where d is a metric on X, is called a metric space. Often one suppresses mention of d and speaks of ‘the metric space X’. We sometimes use the same symbol d for the metric on different spaces.

A set of the form {x ∈ X: d(a, x)

r}_f where a ∈ X and r> 0, is a closed ball (of radius r, round a); replacing

by gives the corresponding open ball. We sometimes denote these by B(a, r) and U(a, r) respectively. (Some authors use the word ‘sphere’ which will be used in this book to mean a set {x ∈ X: d(a, x) = r}.)

The real line R and the complex plane C are metric spaces under the usual metric d(x, y) = | x – y |. More generally Rⁿ (and Cⁿ, which can be thought of for this purpose as R²ⁿ) are metric spaces under the Euclidean metric

where x = (x₁,..., x_n), y = (y₁, ..., y_n); the reader probably knows this but it follows from results proved later.

1.2 We now define the basic topological concepts in a metric space (X, d). A subset N of X is a neighbourhood of a point a ∈ X (and a is an interior point of N) if N contains some ball round a. A sequence {x_n} in X converges to a point a ∈ X – one writes x_n → a as n → ∞ – if given ∈ > 0 there exists n₀ such that d(x_n, a)<∈ whenever n

n₀, that is, if d(x_n, a) → 0 as n → ∞; equivalently, if given any neighbourhood N of a there exists n₀ such that x_n ∈ N for n

n₀ (we say that x_n is eventually in N). A sequence can converge to at most one point a, called the limit of

A point a is a closure point of a subset A if each neighbourhood of a meets A. A set is open if each of its points is an interior point; closed if it contains all its closure points. The interior int(A) of A is the set of interior points of A, the closure A^– of A is the set of closure points of A. The boundary of A is A^– ~ int(A) and consists of those points each of whose neighbourhoods meets both A and X ~ A. A subset A is dense in X if A^– = X.

Let f be a map from a metric space X to a metric space Y, and let a ∈ X; then f is continuous at a if for each neighbourhood N of f(a) there exists a neighbour...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Preliminaries
• 2 Normed spaces – basic properties and examples
• 3 Basic theory of operators and functionals
• 4 Hilbert spaces and related topics
• 5 Dual spaces
• 6 Infinite products and related topics
• 7 Operators
• Appendix
• References and suggested reading
• Index of symbols
• Index