Banach spaces
2.2 Weak* convergence and weak* sequential compactness—Helly’s
Theorem
2.3 Banach-Alaoglu Theorem
2.4 Applications
2.4.1 Approximation of the delta-function by continuous functions
2.4.2 Approximate quadrature
Existence of PDE via Galerkin’s method
General spectral theory
3.1. Spectral radius and Gelfand’s theorem
3.2. Functional calculus, spectral mapping theorem
3.3. Spectral decomposition/separation theorem
3.4. Isolated eigenvalues
3.4.1. Algebraic multiplicity
3.4.2. Laurent expansion of the resolvent operator near isolated eigenvalue
3.4.3. Stability of a finite set of isolated eigenvalues under small operator
perturbation
3.5. Spectrum of the adjoint operator
3.6. The case of unbounded but closed operators
Compact operators and Fredholm operators
4.1. Riesz-Schauder theory
4.2. Hilbert-Schmidt theorem, min-max characterization of eigenvalues
4.3. Positive compact operators: Krein-Rutman theorem (for the special
case of Banach space C(Q), where Q is a compact Hausdorff space)
4.4. Fredholm operators
4.4.1. Characterization of Fredholm operators, pseudoinverse
4.4.2. Fredholm index: index of product of two operators, constancy of
index under small or compact perturbation
4.4.3. Essential spectrum of a bounded operator, and its constancy under
compact perturbation
4.5. Applications
4.5.1. Second order elliptic operators
4.5.2. Non-local diffusion operators
4.5.3. Toeplitz operators
5. Spectral theory of bounded symmetric, normal and unitary operators
5.1. The spectrum of symmetric operators
5.2. Functional calculus for symmetric operators
5.3. Spectral resolution of symmetric operators
5.4. Absolutely continuous, singular, and point spectra
5.5. The spectral representation of symmetric operators
5.6. Spectral resolution of normal operators
5.7. Spectral resolution of unitary operators
5.8. Examples
Unbounded self-adjoint operators
6.1. Spectral resolution via Cayley transform
6.2. The extension of unbounded symmetric operators, deficiency indices
6.3. The Friedrichs extension
6.4. Examples
Semigroups of operators
7.1. Strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups