Week 9-10 Problems

Easy:

  1. Prove the parallelogram law: for any inner product space V and x,y \in V,

        \[\|x+y\|^2 + \|x-y\|^2 = 2\|x\|^2 + 2\|y\|^2.\]

  2. Show that the space

        \[l^2(\mathbb{C}) = \{(x^n)_{n=1}^\infty, x_n \in \mathbb{C}: \langle (x^n), (x^m) \rangle = \sum_{i=1}^\infty x^{n}_i \overline{x^m_i} < \infty\}\]

    is a Hilbert space.
  3. Give an example of an inner product space that is not a Hilbert space, i.e. an inner product space that is not complete.
  4. If f_n \in C(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}) converges to f in L^2, does it converge uniformly? Prove the statement or find a counterexample.

Intermediate:

  1. Let f(x,y) = \begin{cases}             \frac{x^3}{x^2+y^2} & (x,y) \not = (0,0) \\             0 & (x,y) = (0,0) \\         \end{cases}. Show that all partial derivatives of f exist at (0,0) but that f is not differentiable at (0,0). Explain why these two facts do not contradict each other.
  2. Show that if f \in C(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}) is has a continuous derivative g(x) = f'(x), then \widehat{g}(n) = 2\pi i n\widehat{f}(n), in other words, the Fourier transform turns differentiation into multiplication.
  3. For f,g \in C(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}), define the convolution

        \[(f * g)(x) = \int_0^1 f(x-y) g(y) dy.\]

    Show that

        \[\widehat{f * g}(n) = \widehat{f}(n)\widehat{g}(n).\]

Challenging:

  1. Use the Fourier transform to solve the differential equation

        \[u''+4\pi^2 u=0,u(0)=u(1).\]

    (Hint: use problem 6).
  2. Let U be a neighborhood of x \in \mathbb{R}^n and let f: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^m be continuous with continuous first order partial derivatives on U. Show f is differentiable at x and Df(x) is given by the Jacobian matrix.