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CONTENTS 55 Distributions 675.1 Properties <strong>of</strong> distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675.2 Mapping distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695.3 Radon measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705.4 Approximate delta functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705.5 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715.6 Tempered distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725.7 Poisson equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745.8 Diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755.9 Wave equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765.10 Homogeneous solutions <strong>of</strong> the wave equation . . . . . . . . . . . 775.11 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785.12 Answers to first two problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796 Bounded Operators 816.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816.2 Bounded linear operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816.3 Compact operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846.4 Hilbert-Schmidt operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876.5 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886.6 Finite rank operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896.7 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907 Densely Defined Closed Operators 937.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937.2 Subspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937.3 Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947.4 Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957.5 The spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957.6 Spectra <strong>of</strong> inverse operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967.7 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977.8 Self-adjoint operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987.9 First order differential operators with a bounded interval: pointspectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987.10 Spectral projection and reduced resolvent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007.11 Generating second-order self-adjoint operators . . . . . . . . . . . 1017.12 First order differential operators with a semi-infinite interval:residual spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027.13 First order differential operators with an infinite interval: continuousspectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027.14 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037.15 A pathological example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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