General

Lectures

Home



MATH 634 , Fall 2023: Notes and Summary

Lecture Date What was covered Notes Textbook Section (S=Stein; Si I.=Simon vol.1; Si III. = Simon vol.3)
1 Aug. 29 Weierstrass and Stone-Weierstrass Approximation Theorems. ONB for L^2[0,1]
2 Aug. 31 Fourier ONB. Geometric Properties of Optimality. S.
3 Sep. 5 L^2 convergence of Fourier Series. Parseval theorem. ONB, Riesz bases, Schauder Bases.
4 Sep. 7 Pointwise convergence: Riemann Localization Principle (1) S.
5 Sept.12 Pointwise convergence: Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma. Riemann Localization Principle (2). Cases: L^1 functions differentiable at one point; Lipschitz class. Holder class. Dini criterion. Dirichlet theorem.
6 Sept.14 Continuous Functions: Fejer Theorem. Cesaro Summation
7 Sept.19 Wiener algebra (1): Construction
8 Sept.21 Gelfand's Representation theory: Properties of Maximal Ideals. Gelfand-Mazur Theorem.
9 Sept.26 Multiplicative Linear functionals. Weak* compactness, and the character representation. Wiener Lemma as a consequence of the Gelfand Representation Theory.
10 Sept. 28 Almost Periodic Functions. Bohr's compactification.
11 Oct. 3 Riesz-Thorin Interpolation Theorem and applications: Young's and Hausdorff - Young.
12 Oct. 5 More on AlmostPeriodic Functions
13 Oct.10 Fourier transform on R: L^1 theory.  
14 Oct.12 Mid-Term Exam Mid-Term Exam Regular classroom EGR 1102
15 Oct.17 Fourier tranform on R: L^2 theory. Plancherel Theorem.
16 Oct.19 L^2 theory: Unitary property of the Fourier transform. Inversion in L^2 sense.
17 Oct.24 Hausdorff-Young inequality(2). Duality pairing. Product-Convolution rule. Schwartz class.
18 Oct.26 FFT Conference. Attend talks: schedule MATH 3206
19 Oct. 31 Pointwise inversion. Poisson Summation Formula. Sine and Cosine Transforms. Fourier multipliers. Fractional Derivative. PDOs.
20 Nov. 2 Bandlimited functions and Shannon's formula in B^2_Omega
21 Nov. 7 Paley-Wiener Theory 
22 Nov. 9 The Schwartz class in R^d. Tempered distributions
23 Nov.14 Fourier Transform, Convolutions and other operations with tempered distributions
24 Nov.16 Operations with Distributions log(x), 1/x, 1/x^2,... as distributions
25 Nov.21 NO CLASS
- Nov.23 THANKSGIVING BREAK NO CLASS
26 Nov. 28 Square Integrable Representations: Schur's lemma and general theory
27 Nov. 30 Square Integrable Representations: Weyl-Heisenberg group
28 Dec. 5 Square Integrable Representatons: ax+b group
29 Dec. 7 Uncertainty Principles Last Class
- Dec. 13  FINAL EXAM 9:00am-11:00am In EGR 1102