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A Short Course on Banach Space Theory
This is a short course on Banach space theory applicable to many contemporary research arenas.
N. L. Carothers (Author)
9780521842839, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 6 December 2004
198 pages
23.7 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.39 kg
'… a painstaking attention both to detail in the mathematics and to accessibility for the reader. … You could base a good postgraduate course on it.' Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
This is a short course on Banach space theory with special emphasis on certain aspects of the classical theory. In particular, the course focuses on three major topics: the elementary theory of Schauder bases, an introduction to Lp spaces, and an introduction to C(K) spaces. While these topics can be traced back to Banach himself, our primary interest is in the postwar renaissance of Banach space theory brought about by James, Lindenstrauss, Mazur, Namioka, Pelczynski, and others. Their elegant and insightful results are useful in many contemporary research endeavors and deserve greater publicity. By way of prerequisites, the reader will need an elementary understanding of functional analysis and at least a passing familiarity with abstract measure theory. An introductory course in topology would also be helpful; however, the text includes a brief appendix on the topology needed for the course.
Preface
1. Classical Banach spaces
2. Preliminaries
3. Bases in Banach spaces
4. Bases in Banach spaces II
5. Bases in Banach spaces III
6. Special properties of C0, l1, and l?
7. Bases and duality
8. Lp spaces
9. Lp spaces II
10. Lp spaces III
11. Convexity
12. C(K) Spaces
13. Weak compactness in L1
14. The Dunford-Pettis property
15. C(K) Spaces II
16. C(K) Spaces III
A. Topology review.
Subject Areas: Functional analysis & transforms [PBKF]