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MA5020: Functional Analysis


(Possible) Syllabus :

Review of metric spaces. Normed linear spaces. Non-compactness of the unit ball in infinite dimensional normed linear spaces. Product and quotient spaces. Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces. Linear maps. Boundedness and continuity. Linear isometries, linear functionals. Examples.

Hahn-Banach extension theorem, applications. Banach-Steinhaus theorem, closed graph theorem, open mapping theorem and bounded inverse theorem, Spectrum of a bounded operator.

Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. Bessel's inequality, Riesz-Fisher theorem. Orthonormal basis, Parseval's identity, Projection, orthogonal decomposition. Bounded linear functionals on Hilbert spaces.

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