MATH F341: Introduction to Functional Analysis

BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

Second Semester, 2019 - 2020
Assignment I (Open book)
Date: February 20, 2019
Total Marks: 10

This question paper contains 10 questions.

Answer one question assigned to you.

1. For k ∈ N, let
C k [a, b] = {f : [a, b] → K | f (k) ∈ C[a, b]}.
Then C k [a, b] is a linear space over K with respect to the pointwise addition and scalar multiplication.
Define
kf k = kf k∞ + kf 0 k∞ + . . . kf (k) k∞ ∀f ∈ C k [a, b],
then show that (C k [a, b], k · k) is a Banach space.

2. A normed linear space X is a Banach space iff every absolutely convergent series in X is convergent in
X. Is it necessarily true in normed linear space?

3. Show that a nonzero normed linear space X is a Banach space iff Sr = {x ∈ X : kxk = r} is complete
with respect to the induced metric for some r > 0.

4. If X is a Banach space, then show that the quotient space X/Y is a Banach Space with the quotient
norm.

5. If a normed linear space has a Schauder basis, then show that it is separable. Hence, conclude that
{e1 , e2 , . . .} is not a Schauder basis for (l∞ , k · k∞ ).
(Hint: Show that (l∞ , k · k∞ ) is not separable).

6. Show that the quotient norm of the Quotient space l∞ /c0 is given by
k(xn ) + c0 k = lim sup |xn | ∀(xn ) ∈ l∞ .
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7. Let X be a nonzero normed linear space and let Y be a normed linear space such that B(X, Y ) is a
Banach space. Show that Y is a Banach space.

8. Let Y = {(xn ) ∈ l1 : x1 − 3x2 = 0} and define g(xn ) = x1 for all (xn ) ∈ Y . Determine all the Hahn
Banach extensions of g to (l1 , k · k1 ).

9. Show that the dual space of the space c0 is l1 .

10. Let X be any topological space and let C(X) be the set of all bounded continuous functions f : X → K.
Then show that (C(X), k · k∞ ) is a Banach Space. Further if X is compact Hausdorff space, then show
the Banach space (C(X), k · k∞ ) is finite dimensional iff X is a finite set.

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