131B-2

Final J. Madrid Padilla

12/16–17/2020

Your name: UID:

Instructions: You have 24 hours to complete this exam from Wednesday December
16 at 8:00 am to Thursday December 17 at 8:00 am, Pacific time.
There are 8 problems, worth a total of 80 points. This test is OPEN book and OPEN
notes. Calculators are allowed. Collaboration of any kind is NOT allowed.
For full credit show all of your work legibly and justify all your answers!. Please
circle or box your final answers.
Please write your solutions on white papers. After completion, scan your solutions, put
all of them in a single file and convert to pdf. You have to submit your pdf file via Gradescope
by Thursday December 17 at 8:00 am PT. You don’t need to attach your scratch work.

Problem Points Score

1 10
2 8
3 10
4 11
5 10
6 8
7 13
8 10
Total 80

Honor Statement. It is a departmental policy that any remote evaluation should

contain the following statement. This statement must be signed by the student. If it is
not signed, the evaluation should be given a failing grade.

I assert, on my honor, that I have not received assistance of any kind from any other
person while working on the final and that I have not used any non-permitted materials or
technologies during the period of this evaluation.

Student signature:
Problem 1. 10pts.
For every a ≥ 0, define
xa cos(x−2 ) x > 0

fa (x) =
0 x=0

i) (5 points) Determine the set

E = {a ∈ [0, ∞) : fa is differentiable at x = 0}.

For each a ∈ E, find fa0 (x) for every x ∈ [0, ∞).

ii) (5 points) Determine the set

D = {a ∈ E : fa0 is continuous at x = 0}.

Problem 2. 8pts.
Let E ⊂ R2 be a compact set. Define f : E → R by

f (x, y) = x2 + cos2 (exy ).

Prove that there exists M ∈ (0, ∞) such that for every (x, y) ∈ E we have M ≤ f (x, y).
Problem 3. 10pts.
Let (X, d) be a metric space and U be a connected subset of X.

i) (5 points) Let f : X → R be a continuous function. Assuming that 0 ∈

/ f (U ), prove
that f (x)f (y) > 0 for all x, y ∈ U .

ii) (5 points) Prove that if A ⊂ X and neither U ∩ A, nor U ∩ (X \ A) is empty, then

U ∩ ∂A 6= ∅.
Problem 4. 11pts.
Let X = {f : N → {0, 1}} denote the space of sequences with values in {0, 1}.
On X we define X
d(f, g) = 2−n |f (n) − g(n)|.
n∈N

i) (3 points) Show that d is a metric on X.

ii) (8 points) Show that the space (X, d) is compact.

Problem 5. 10pts.
Determine whether the set
XN
A={ cn x2n : N ∈ N, cn ∈ R}
n=0

is dense in:

i) C([0, 1], R).

ii) C([−1, 1], R).

Prove your answer!

Problem 6. 8pts.
Let (X, dX ), (Y, dY ) and (Z, dZ ) be three metric spaces such that Y is compact. Let
f : X → Y and g : Y → Z be two functions such that g is continuous and injective.
Show that if g ◦ f is uniformly continuous then f is uniformly continuous.
Problem 7. 13pts.
P∞
i) (6 points) Determine the set E = {x ∈ R : n=1 n2 cosn (x) < ∞}.

P∞
ii) (7 points) For every x ∈ E, calculate f (x) = n=1 n2 cosn (x).
Problem 8. 10pts.
R1
Let f, g ∈ C(R/Z, C), and en (x) := e2πinx . Recall the inner product hf, gi := 0
f (x)g(x)dx.

i) (5 points) Assume f is orthogonal to every en , i.e hf, en i = 0 for every n ∈ Z. Show that
f = 0.

ii) (5 points) Suppose that fk is a sequence of functions in C(R/Z, C) such that

Z 1
|fk (x) − f (x)|dx → 0 as k → ∞.
0

Show that, as functions from Z to C, fˆk converges uniformly to fˆ as k → ∞.