Functional analysis

Lecturer: Olavi Nevanlinna (Jan 2015 - Apr 2015), Ville Turunen (Sep 2015 - Oct 2015)
Teaching assistant: Armando W. Gutiérrez

Content:

  • norms, seminorms, inner products
  • bounded linear operators
  • Riesz compact theorem, uniform boundedness principle, open mapping and closed graph theorems
  • Hahn-Banach theorem
  • duality and spectral theory
  • Gelfand’s spectral theorem
  • orthogonality, orthonormal bases
  • Riesz representation theorem
  • diagonalization of compact self-adjoint operators
  • Hilbert-Schmidt spectral theorem
  • singular value decomposition

Study material:

  • Nevanlinna, O. Lecture notes
  • Turunen, V. Lecture notes