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Analysis Qualifying Examination: September 3, 2016

This document contains 5 problems related to analysis and measure theory: 1) Showing limits of sequences defined by differences and bounds, 2) Conditions for uniform convergence of series of functions, 3) Properties of totally bounded metric spaces and uniform convergence of continuous functions, 4) Properties of derivatives and integrals involving derivatives, 5) Convergence of translated sequences of functions and equicontinuity of convolutions.

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Analysis Qualifying Examination: September 3, 2016

This document contains 5 problems related to analysis and measure theory: 1) Showing limits of sequences defined by differences and bounds, 2) Conditions for uniform convergence of series of functions, 3) Properties of totally bounded metric spaces and uniform convergence of continuous functions, 4) Properties of derivatives and integrals involving derivatives, 5) Convergence of translated sequences of functions and equicontinuity of convolutions.

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Analysis Qualifying Examination

September 3, 2016

1.

(a) Let limn (a n+1 a n ) = for some . Show that limn ann = .
(b) If an 0 and a m+n a m + a n + C for all m, n N and some C 0, show that the sequence
an
n converges as n .

2.

P
(a) If | f n (x)| g n (x) for all n N and all x [a, b], and the series
n=1 g n (x) converges uniformly
P
in [a, b], show that the series n=1 f n (x) converges uniformly in [a, b].
(b) Show that, if f n and f are positive continuous functions on a bounded and closed interval
1
1
[a, b] and f n f on [a, b], then
on [a, b].
fn
f

3.

(a) Prove that (X , d ) is totally bounded if and only if every sequence in (X , d ) has a Cauchy
subsequence.
(b) Let X be a compact metric space and let ( f n ) be a sequence of continuous real valued functions on X such that f 1 (x) f 2 (x) f 3 (x) . . . for every x X . Show that, if the sequence
( f n ) converges pointwise to a continuous function on X , then the convergence is uniform
on X .

4.

(a) Let f : R R be differentiable and a < b. Show that for any between f 0 (a) and f 0 (b), there
exists a c [a, b] such that f 0 (c) = .
(b) If a function F is continuous on a rectangle [a, b] [c, d ] and the partial derivative D y F is
continuous and bounded on [a, b] (c, d ), show that the function
b

Z
f (y) =

F (x, y) d x
a

is differentiable on (c, d ) and we have


f 0 (y) =

b
a

D y F (x, y) d x

for all y (c, d ).


5.

(a) Let x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , . . . be an arbitrary sequence of real numbers, and let f be a Lebesgue integrable
function on R. Show that the sequence of functions
f n (x) = f (nx x n )
has a subsequence that converges almost everywhere.

(b) Let S L 1 (R) be a bounded set (in the L 1 -norm) and let be a continuous function with
compact support. Let : L 1 (R) L 1 (R) be a convolution operator defined as follows
Z
( f )(t ) = f (s)(t s)d s.
R

Show that the set (S) = { f : f S} is equicontinuous.

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