Paper 3, Section II, G

Linear Analysis | Part II, 2014

(i) State carefully the theorems of Stone-Weierstrass and Arzelá-Ascoli (work with real scalars only).

(ii) Let F\mathcal{F} denote the family of functions on [0,1][0,1] of the form

f(x)=∑n=1∞ansin⁡(nx)f(x)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} a_{n} \sin (n x)

where the ana_{n} are real and ∣an∣⩽1/n3\left|a_{n}\right| \leqslant 1 / n^{3} for all n∈Nn \in \mathbb{N}. Prove that any sequence in F\mathcal{F} has a subsequence that converges uniformly on [0,1][0,1].

(iii) Let f:[0,1]→Rf:[0,1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R} be a continuous function such that f(0)=0f(0)=0 and f′(0)f^{\prime}(0) exists. Show that for each ε>0\varepsilon>0 there exists a real polynomial pp having only odd powers, i.e. of the form

p(x)=a1x+a3x3+⋯+a2m−1x2m−1,p(x)=a_{1} x+a_{3} x^{3}+\cdots+a_{2 m-1} x^{2 m-1},

such that sup⁡x∈[0,1]∣f(x)−p(x)∣<ε\sup _{x \in[0,1]}|f(x)-p(x)|<\varepsilon. Show that the same holds without the assumption that ff is differentiable at 0 .

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