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Functional analysis

  • ECTS Credits: 7.5
  • Semester: 1
  • Year: 2
  • Campus: Karlstad University
  • Language: English

Functional analysis II

  • ECTS Credits: 4
  • Year: 2
  • Campus: Brno University of Technology
  • Language: English

Functional Analysis in Applied Mathematics and Engineering

  • Unit Coordinator: Marco Di Francesco
  • ECTS Credits: 9
  • Semester: 1
  • Year: 1
  • Campus: University of L'Aquila
  • Language: English
  • Content:

    Basic functional analysis: normed and Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces, Lebesgue integral, linear operators, weak topologies, distribution theory, Sobolev spaces, fixed point theorems, calculus in Banach spaces, spectral theory.

    Applications: ordinary differential equations, boundary value problems for partial differential equations, linear system theory, optimization theory.

  • Pre-requisites:

    Linear Algebra. Complex numbers. Differential and integral calculus of functions of real variables.

  • Reading list:

    Ruth F. Curtain, A.J. Pritchard, Functional Analysis in Modern Applied Mathematics, Academic Press, 1977

Functional and Complex Analysis

  • Unit Coordinator: Mariapia Palombaro, Gennaro Ciampa
  • ECTS Credits: 9
  • Semester: 2
  • Year: 1
  • Campus: University of L'Aquila
  • Language: English
  • Aims:

    Knowledge of basic topics of Functional Analysis, functional spaces and Lebesgue integral.
    Knowledge of basic topics of complex analysis: elementary functions of complex variable, differentiation, integration and main theorems on analytic functions. Ability to use such knowledge in solving problems and exercises.

  • Content:
    • Metric spaces, normed linear spaces.
    • Spaces of continuous functions. Convergence of function sequences. Approximation by polynomials. Compactness in spaces of continuous functions. Arzelà's theorem. Contraction mapping theorem.
    • Crash course on Lebesgue measure and integration. Limit exchange theorems. Lp spaces. Hilbert spaces.
    • Introduction to the theory of linear bounded operators on Banach spaces. Bounded operators.
    • Complex numbers. Sequences. Elementary functions of complex numbers. Limits, continuity. Differentiation. Analytic functions. Harmonic functions.
    • Contour integrals. Cauchy's Theorem. Cauchy's integral formula. Maximum modulus theorem. Liouville's theorem. Morera's theorem.
    • Series representation of analytic functions. Taylor's theorem. Laurent's series and classiScation of singularities.
    • Calculus of residues. The residue theorem. Application in evaluation of integrals on the real line and Principal Value. The logarithmic residue, Rouche's theorem.
    • Fourier transform for L^1 functions. Applications. Fourier transform for L^2 functions. Plancherel theorem.
    • Laplace transform and applications.
  • Pre-requisites:

    Knowledge of all topics treated the Mathematical Analysis courses in the first and second year: real functions of real variables, limits, differentiation, integration; sequences and series of funcions; ordinary differential equations

  • Reading list:
    • J.E. Marsden, M.J. Hoffman, Basic complex analysis , Freeman New York. -
    • W. Rudin, Real and complex analysis , Mc Graw Hill.
  • Additional info:

    Teaching methods

    Lectures and tutorials

    Assessment methods

    Written and possibly oral exam

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