MATS2210 Hilbert Spaces (5 cr)

Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

Description

Inner products and norms in infinite dimensional spaces, Hilbert spaces, bounded linear operators and duals, orthogonality, Fourier series, spectral decomposition of compact self-adjoint operators.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student:

  • Masters the basic theory of Hilbert spaces.
  • Has obtained skills to use Hilbert spaces in modern analysis.

Description of prerequisites

Metric Spaces, Measure and integration theory 1

Study materials

Andrew M. Bruckner, Judith B. Bruckner, and Brian S. Thomson, Real Analysis, 2008, www.classicalrealanalysis.com

Avner Friedman, Foundations of modern analysis, Dover Publications Inc. 1982; ISBN: 0-486-64062-0

Gerald B. Folland, Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and Their Applications, Wiley, 2013; ISBN: 1-118-62639-7

Lauri Kahanpää, Funktionaalianalyysi, luntomoniste 51, Matematiikan ja tilastotieteen laitos, Jyväskyän yliopisto, 2004.; ISBN: 951-39-1763-0 (in Finnish)

Lecture notes of the course

Literature

  • Haïm Brezis, Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations, Springer, 2010; ISBN: 2-010-93838-2
  • John B. Conway, A course in functional analysis (2nd edition), Springer, 1990; ISBN: 0-387-97245-5

Completion methods

Method 1

Evaluation criteria:
Course exam and exercises
Time of teaching:
Period 3
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Method 2

Evaluation criteria:
Final exam. The score must be at least half of the maximum score.
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Participation in teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish

Teaching

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Exam (5 cr)

Type:
Exam
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish

Teaching