91 91 ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 2015 Pre-Ph.D./Ph.D. Mathematical Sciences [ Field of Study Code : MATP (160) } Time Allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 70 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES (@ All questions are compulsory. (i) For Section—A, the answers must be written in the’ space provided in the Answer Table for Section—A. For questions from Section—B, please write your answers in the space provided after each question. Please note that answers written in any other place will not be evaluated. (iii) For each question in Section—A, one and only one of the four choices provides the correct answer. Each correct answer will be awarded +3 marks, Each wrong answer will be given -1 mark. An unattempted question will not get any marks. (iv) Questions in Section—B are subjective type and each question carries 5 marks. (¥) Answers to all the questions in Section—B must be justified with mathematical reasoning and details as required. Only complete and correct answers will get full marks. (vi) Throughout, N, Z, Q,R, C will denote the set of natural numbers, the set of integers, the set of rational numbers, the set of real numbers and the set of complex numbers respectively. Subsets of R" are assumed to have the usual topology unless mentioned otherwise. (vil) Throughout, for real numbers a, b with acb, by [a, CR we will denote the interval consisting of all the real numbers between @ and b including the end points a and b. In order to exclude the end points (a, b} from the interval, the notation (a, b} is used. (viii) Extra pages are attached at the end of the question paper for rough work. /91-B ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 2015 Pre-Ph.D./Ph.D. Mathematical Sciences SUBJECT ...... (Field of Study/Language) FIELD OF STUDY CODE NAME OF THE CANDIDATE .. . an CLIT CENTRE OF EXAMINATION DATE. (Signature of Candidate) (Signature of Invigilator) (Signature and Seal of Presiding Officer) /91-B/91-B/91-B FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Not to be filled in by the candidate Total of Section—A Total of Section—B Grand Total [P.T.0./91-BAnswer table for Section—A , | FOR OFFICIAL FOR OFFICIAL |Q.No. | Answe USE ONLY |@-No.| Answer USETONEY L 9. | 2. 10. 1. | 4 12. 5. 13. 6. 14, 1 15. A Total Marks - (out of 45 ) Grading Table for Section B FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ] | Total Marks Q. No. 16. 17, | 18. | 19, | 20, (out of 25) 1 FOR OFFICIAL | | USE ONLY | J /91-B 5 [P.7.6./91-BSECTION—A 1. Let A be the Lebesgue measure on R and ECR be a Lebesgue measurable set with A(B) > 0. Let £° be the interior of E and E the closure of E in R. Let -E: = (-x|xe B} Which of the following is true? (a) ME) =A-E +b) for every beR (b) Mat £) = ME) for every acR (co) ME)=ME*) (@)E contains an open interval 2. Consider the polynomials given by P(x): = x20! +5x+14 and Q(x): = x20! Which of the following is true? +8x-14, (@) P-Qhas more than 5 real roots (b) Phas exactly one real root () Qhas more than 3 real roots (a) P has 2015 real roots 3. Let f:RR be a function. Consider the statements : {Sl] f takes compact sets to compact sets. {S2]_f takes connected sets to connected sets. [83] f is continuous. [S4] f takes bounded sets to bounded sets. Which of the following is true? (a) [S1] > [$3] (b) {82} = [83] (©) [83] = [S4} (a) None of the above /91-B 7 [P.T.0.4. /91-B Let V: = Q(v3) and W: = Q(V5), Consider the statements : (S1]_V= Was groups under addition. (S2]_ V= Was vector spaces over Q. [S3]_ V= Was fields. Which of the following is true? (a) [$1] but not [2] (b) [82] but not [S3} (9) [81] and [$3] (@) [83] let Si, g be non-negative continuous real-valued functions on [0, 1), Suppose [reo axiax = 0. Which of the following is false? @ OLE =(0 1 © POV gO+6 © Prey axa =0 (@) Either f=0 or g=0 Consider the following statement : (*) Let X be a topological space, Let f: X + X be any continuous map. Then there exists x9 € X such that fxg) = x5. For which topological space amon, statement (*) hold true? i the topological spaces listed below, does the above (a) X:= (ze | zl<2 (bh) X:=(-2, 2) () x:=R? (@) X= wee] jz}=2)cA 10. /91-B Suppose G is isomorphic to Z/6Zx Z/4Z. Which one of the following is true? (a) Any subgroup of G is of the form HxK for some subgroup H of Z/6Z and some subgroup K of Z/4Z (b) Ghas a cyclic subgroup of order 12 () Ghas a cyclic subgroup of order 8 (2) Ghas no cyclic subgroup other than the trivial Let A be the Lebesgue measure on Rand f, g¢ C(R\, the space of continuous functions from R to C. Let A:= {xR f(x) + g(x)}. Suppose f and gare equal almost everywhere with respect to 2, i.e., A(A)=0. Which one of the following is true? fa) A=o (bo) Avg and Ais finite () Ais countably infinite set (4) Ais uncountable Let T:R" +R" be a linear transformation. Suppose T has non-zero distinct eigenvalues. For a scalar 4¢ R, consider the linear transformation Al, +7, where I, is the nxn identity matrix. Which one of the following is not necessarily true? (@) 7 is invertible (0) There exists 4eR such that Al, +7 is invertible (c)_ There exists 4¢R such that Al, +T is diagonalizable (a) Alp +7 is invertible for all but finitely many 4 R Let M, (R) and M,,(C) denote the set of nx n matrices with real coefficients and complex coefficients respectively. Let GL, (R) and GL, (C) be the invertible matrices in M,,(R) and M,,(C) respectively. Which one of the following topological spaces is connected? (a) GLy(R) (b) The set of matrices Me M,(R) having trace 0 () GL) (4) C\ pllo, 1), where p:[0, 1] >C is a continuous differentiable non-constant function satisfying p(0) = p(l) 9 [P.7.0.ql. 12. 13, 14, 15, /91-B Which one of the following functions from C to C is bounded? (@) sina sin(z) o cos(z}+3 i (€) sin? (22) + (cos? 2) sin? (2))? + ella! Let V be a vector space of dimension 6 over the finite field Z/7Z. Let W, and W, be two vector subspaces of V. Let dim (W,) = 4 and dim (Wf) = 3. Which one of the following is necessarily true? (@) dim (Wn Wy) >1 (b) dim (Wj + Wp)=4 (6) dim (Wn Ww) = 3 (@ WoW =v The last two digits of 39" are f@) 49 (o) 53 ( 27 @ 61 Leta=(q, bea 15% 15 matrix such that a, » = 1fo tadius of A, ie, r(a): “sup (lA: eigenvalue of 4) fa) r(A)=0 r all i, j. Let r(A) denote the spectral Which of the following is true? (b) O<7(4)<10 () r(4)=10 (@ r(4)>10 Consider the following statements : 181] Countable union of Countable sets is countable, {82} Product of countably many finite non-empty sets is countable. {$3} Product of finitely many Countable sets is countable, Which of the following is true? @) [81] and [sj (©) (82) ana |s3) (© {81} and {s3] (@) None of the above 10SECTION—B 16. Let Ae M,,(C) be an nxn matrix such that A705 = O€ M, (C). Prove that A, + Ais an invertible matrix if and only if A #0. Here Ae C and J, is the nxn identity matrix 18 u [P-T.0./91-B 1217. Let N be a positive integer. Let T be a linear operator on RY. Suppose 0 is a limit point of the set {|" fnew} Show that |7"| 0 as n+, PTO. /91-B ae !/91-B 1418. Consider the Mébius transformation 9: C -» C given by (2) = zo 7 Find the set @7-1(R). PTO, /91-B 1S i/91-B 1619. Let Ge the group of 2x2 invertible matrices with coefficients in the finite field Z 1132, Prove or disprove that G has a 13-Sylow subgroup providing details. /91-B 17 [P.7.0./91-B 1820, /91-B Let f and g be real-valued continuous functions defined on R as Fe) logy x if x21 0 if xs and gx) =6-x for all xeR. (a) Find the points of intersection of the graph of f and the graph of g. (0) Find the area of the bounded region enclosed by the graph of f, the graph of gand the X-axis. 19 [P-T.0.aad 91-B / 20SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK fate 21 (P.-T.0.SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK /91-B 22SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK 102 joie 23 E1540