Assorted notes on functional analysis

An introduction for functional analysis

Notes created for a course on Functional analysis. I wrote these up as separate notes for the spring term of 2004; for the spring term of 2005, I have collected the notes into one document. For the spring term of 2006 I corrected a number of misprints, improved the exposition a few places, and added some more material in the section on spectral theory.

This version is dated 2006–05–11.

The main book for the course is Kreyszig's Intoductory Functional Analysis With Applications. These notes serve as a supplement.

Contents:

1. Transfinite induction
2. Some Banach space results (alternate proof of Banach–Steinhaus)
3. Sequence spaces and L^p spaces
4. A tiny bit of topology
5. Topological vector spaces
6. Spectral theory
7. Compact operators

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Errata to 2005–05–11 version

A list of improvements and corrections for misprints. (These errata are dated 2006–04–25.)

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Credits

Thanks to Haixing Hu for pointing out some mistakes in an earlier version of the chapter on transfinite induction. Also thanks to Xavier Raynaud for finding several points in the same chapter where my exposition was much too brief.

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The notes may be freely copied for personal or classroom use; contact me if you wish to copy them for any other reason.