Functional Analysis II

WS 2026/27

Docent: Tanja Eisner

Lectures: Tuesday 15:15-16:45, 17:15-18:45 in SG 3-13

Exercises: Wednesday 09:15-10:45 in P-801

Requirement: Functional Analysis I

Description

The main topics of this course are

  • introduction to spectral theory (general properties of spectrum and resolvent, classification of spectrum, spectrum of isometries, unitaries and self-adjoint operators, Riesz' spectral theory of compact operators, Dunford's functional calculus);
  • weak and weak* topologies (theorems of Banach-Alaoglu and Krein-Milman);
  • spectral theorem for normal operators (multiplicator form).
  • If time allows, we will cover further classical topics from functional analysis and operator theory.

    We will use in particular (but not exclusively) the following literature.

    Stefan Banach

    David Hilbert

    Frigyes Riesz

    Ivar Fredholm

    John von Neumann