17PM44 SET - B (c) AA*  A* A  I (d) A*  A .

DEVANGA ARTS COLLEGE (Autonomous), ARUPPUKOTTAI

(Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University) 7) The set of all regular element in Banach algebra is denoted by
M.Sc.,(Maths) Degree Examination : April - 2020 ____.
Fourth Semester : Part - III : Major Paper (a) C (b) Z
Advanced Functional Analysis (c) S (d) G
(For students who joined in June 2017)
8) If G is an open set then S is ____
Time : 3 hrs Max : 75 Marks
(a) closed (b) singular
Section-A (c) compact (d) none of these.

Answer all the questions, choosing correct answer:- 9) If     x  then _____ is singular
(10 x 1 = 10 marks) (a) x  1 (b) x  1
1) The set of all compact linear maps from a normed space X to field (c) x  1 (d) x  1 .
is denoted by _______ 
(a) CL( X , Y ) (b) CL( X , X ) 10) If A is self-adjoint then prove that A is dense in ______
(c) CL( X , K ) (d) CL(Y , K ) . (a) ℮(ɱ) (b) S*
(c) B* (d) none of these.
2) The dimension of Z  A - kI   is called the _______ multiplicity of k
(a) algebraic (b) geometric
(c) compact (d) ascent.
Section-B
3) If ( x, y )  0 then we say that x and y are _____. Answer all questions, choosing either ‘a’ or ‘b’:- (5 x 7 = 35 Marks)
a) Orthogonal b) orthonormal
c) complement d) none of these . 11) a) Let X and Y be Banach spaces . If Fn  CL( X , Y ) ,
F  CL( X , Y ) and FN  F  0 then prove that F  CL( X , Y ) .
4) _______ is the only vector orthogonal to itself in inner product
space. (OR)
a) 1 b) 0 b) Let X be a normed space and A CL( X ) . Then prove that
 a  A    A .
c) X d) none of these.

5) An operator A is self adjoint if ________ 12) a) State and prove polarization identity..
(a) A  A * (b)
(OR)
(c) (d)
b) State and prove Parallelogram law.
6) Let A  BL(H ). A is called unitary if _____
(a) A*  A (b) AA*  A* A 13) a) Let H be a Hilbert space and A BL(H ). Then prove that A is
normal iff A( x )  A * ( x ) for all x  H .
 (OR)
b) Let H be a Hilbert space k  K and A, B  BL( H ) , then prove **********
that


(i) ( kA) *  k A*

(ii) ( AB ) *  B * A* .

14) a)If G is an open set then prove that S is closed set where S is
the set of all singular elements.
(OR)
b) Prove that the boundary of S is a subset of Z where S and Z
are the set of all singular elements and topological divisors of zero
respectively.

15) a) If f 1 and f 2 are multiplicative functional on A with the same space

then prove that f 1 = f 2 .
(OR)
b) Prove that the maximal idea space ɱ is a compact Hausdorff
space..

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Section-C

Answer any Three questions: - (3 x 10 = 30 Marks)

16) Let X be a normed space and A CL( X ) . Then prove that dim
Z ( A '  kI )  dim Z ( A  kI )   for 0  k  K .

17) State and prove Gram Schmidt orthonormalization process.

18) State and prove Generalized Schwarz inequality.

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19) Prove that the spectral radius r(x) is lim x n .

20) State and prove Gelfand Neumark theorem.