Addis Ababa University
Department of Mathematics
PhD Qualifying Examination in Real Analysis
April 26, 2016
Instructions: State precisely any standard theorems you may use in your
work, However, any theorem used must be properly quoted. All steps in
your work must: be justified. Each question carries 20 marks.
PART I: Answer ahy: two of the following four questions.
1,) Let f and g be continuous real valued functions on the closed bounded
interval [a,8]. If g(z) > 0 for all x [a,b], show that there exists
c € [a, }] such that.
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2. Let a, = sin %¥ for n > 1. Find
ie liminf a, and im sup ap.
3. Let {fa} be a sequence of continuous real valued functions that
converges uniformly on the interval (0,1). For each positive integer n
let.
nae [ fa(t)at for « € (0,1).
Show that {ff,}$21 converges uniformly on (0, 1).
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Show that for any open set U C R? the image f(U) is an open set.
eb £:R? > R? be a C? function and suppose that the Jacobian
fa, fa) 2
Waa) (x,y) # 0 for all (x,y) € R®.,
PART II: Answer any three of the following five questions.
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Let N denote the set of natural numbers and A = {A CN: Ais finite or At
is finite}.
Prove that A is an algebra but NOT a c—algebra, »/
. Let (X,3, 12) be a measure space. Suppose that f is a nonnegative
extended real valued measurable function on X such that
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