Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Topics
Real Analysis
2007
Set Operations and Algebras of Sets
Sequences, limsup, liminf
Open and closed sets of reals
Lebesgue integral
Convergence theorems
Monotone Convergence Theorem
Lebesgue Dominated Convergence Theorem
Classical Banach Spaces
Minkowski and Hölder inequalities
General Measure and Integration
Measure spaces, measurable functions, convergence theorems
Signed measures, examples of measures
Lebesgue decomposition, singular, absolutely continuous
Fubini's and Tonelli's Theorems
Modes of Convergence
Definitions of Pointwise (A.E.), Uniform, Mean P, in measure
Relating various modes (Chapter 7 in Bartle, for example)
References:
Real Analysis, H. Royden, Macmillan Publishing Co.
Measure and Integration, M. Munroe, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Elements of Integration, Bartle, Wiley Classic Series
Real and Abstract Analysis, Hewitt and Stromberg.

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