Table of contents : Preface Contents PROBLEMS 1. Vectors (P1-12) P1. Limits of quadratic forms Hint Solution P2. Schwarz inequality Hint Solution P3. Representation of linear functionals Hint Solution P4. Strict convexity Hint Solution P5. Continuous curves Hint Solution P6. Uniqueness of crinkled arcs Hint Solution P7. Linear dimension Hint Solution P8. Total sets Hint Solution P9. Infinitely total sets Hint Solution P10. Infinite Vandermondes Hint Solution P11. T-total sets Hint Solution P12. Approximate bases Hint Solution 2. Spaces (P13-18) P13. Vector sums Hint Solution P14. Lattice of subspaces Hint Solution P15. Vector sums and the modular law Hint Solution P16. Local compactness and dimension Hint Solution P17. Separability and dimension Hint Solution P18. Measure in Hilbert space Hint Solution 3. Weak Topology (P19-30) P19. Weak closure of subspaces Hint Solution P20. Weak continuity of norm and inner product Hint Solution P21. Semicontinuity of norm Hint Solution P22. Weak separability Hint Solution P23. Weak compactness of the unit ball Hint Solution P24. Weak metrizability of the unit ball Hint Solution P25. Weak closure of the unit sphere Hint Solution P26. Weak metrizability and separability Hint Solution P27. Uniform boundedness Hint Solution P28. Weak metrizability of Hilbert space Hint Solution P29. Linear functional on l^2 Hint Solution P30. Weak completeness Hint Solution 4. Analytic Functions (P31-43) P31. Analytic Hilbert spaces Hint Solution P32. Basis for A^2 Hint Solution P33. Real functions in H^2 Hint Solution P34. Products in H^2 Hint Solution P35. Analytic characterization of H^2 Hint Solution P36. Functional Hilbert spaces Hint Solution P37. Kernel functions Hint Solution P38. Conjugation in functional Hilbert spaces Hint Solution P39. Continuity of extension Hint Solution P40. Radial limits Hint Solution P41. Bounded approximation Hint Solution P42. Multiplicativity of extension Hint Solution P43. Dirichlet problem Hint Solution 5. Infinite Matrices (P44-49) P44. Column-finite matrices Hint Solution P45. Schur test Hint Solution P46. Hilbert matrix Hint Solution P47. Exponential Hilbert matrix Hint Solution P48. Positivity of the Hilbert matrix Hint Solution P49. Series of vectors Hint Solution 6. Boundedness and Invertibility (P50-60) P50. Boundedness on bases Hint Solution P51. Uniform boundedness of linear transformations Hint Solution P52. Invertible transformations Hint Solution P53. Diminishable complements Hint Solution P54. Dimension in inner-product spaces Hint Solution P55. Total orthonormal sets Hint Solution P56. Preservation of dimension Hint Solution P57. Projections of equal rank Hint Solution P58. Closed graph theorem Hint Solution P59. Range inclusion and factorization Hint Solution P60. Unbounded symmetric transformations Hint Solution 7. Multiplication Operators (P61-69) P61. Diagonal operators Hint Solution P62. Multiplications on l^2 Hint Solution P63. Spectrum of a diagonal operator Hint Solution P64. Norm of a multiplication Hint Solution P65. Boundedness of multipliers Hint Solution P66. Boundedness of multiplications Hint Solution P67. Spectrum of a multiplication Hint Solution P68. Multiplications on functional Hilbert spaces Hint Solution P69. Multipliers of functional Hilbert spaces Hint Solution 8. Operator Matrices (P70-72) P70. Commutative operator determinants Hint Solution P71. Operator determinants Hint Solution P72. Operator determinants with a finite entry Hint Solution 9. Properties of Spectra (P73-78) P73. Spectra and conjugation Hint Solution P74. Spectral mapping theorem Hint Solution P75. Similarity and spectrum Hint Solution P76. Spectrum of a product Hint Solution P77. Closure of approximate point spectrum Hint Solution P78. Boundary of spectrum Hint Solution 10. Examples of Spectra (P79-85) P79. Residual spectrum of a normal operator Hint Solution P80. Spectral parts of a diagonal operator Hint Solution P81. Spectral parts of a multiplication Hint Solution P82. Unilateral shift Hint Solution P83. Structure of the set of eigenvectors Hint Solution P84. Bilateral shift Hint Solution P85. Spectrum of a functional multiplication Hint Solution 11. Spectral Radius (P86-98) P86. Analyticity of resolvents Hint Solution P87. Non-emptiness of spectra Hint Solution P88. Spectral radius Hint Solution P89. Weighted shifts Hint Solution P90. Similarity of weighted shifts Hint Solution P91. Norm and spectral radius of a weighted shift Hint Solution P92. Power norms Hint Solution P93. Eigenvalues of weighted shifts Hint Solution P94. Approximate point spectrum of a weighted shift Hint Solution P95. Weighted sequence spaces Hint Solution P96. One-point spectrum Hint Solution P97. Analytic quasinilpotents Hint Solution P98. Spectrum of a direct sum Hint Solution 12. Norm Topology (P99-106) P99. Metric space of operators Hint Solution P100. Continuity of inversion Hint Solution P101. Interior of conjugate class Hint Solution P102. Continuity of spectrum Hint Solution P103. Semicontinuity of spectrum Hint Solution P104. Continuity of spectral radius Hint Solution P105. Normal continuity of spectrum Hint Solution P106. Quasinilpotent perturbations of spectra Hint Solution 13. Operator Topologies (P107-115) P107. Topologies for operators Hint Solution P108. Continuity of norm Hint Solution P109. Semicontinuity of operator norm Hint Solution P110. Continuity of adjoint Hint Solution P111. Continuity of multiplication Hint Solution P112. Separate continuity of multiplication Hint Solution P113. Sequential continuity of multiplication Hint Solution P114. Weak sequential continuity of squaring Hint Solution P115. Weak convergence of projections Hint Solution 14. Strong Operator Topology (P116-122) P116. Strong normal continuity of adjoint Hint Solution P117. Strong bounded continuity of multiplication Hint Solution P118. Strong operator versus weak vector convergence Hint Solution P119. Strong semicontinuity of spectrum Hint Solution P120. Increasing sequences of Hermitian operators Hint Solution P121. Square roots Hint Solution P122. Infimum of two projections Hint Solution 15. Partial Isometries (P123-133) P123. Spectral mapping theorem for normal operators Hint Solution P124. Decreasing squares Hint Solution P125. Polynomially diagonal operators Hint Solution P126. Continuity of the functional calculus Hint Solution P127. Partial isometries Hint Solution P128. Maximal partial isometries Hint Solution P129. Closure and connectedness of partial isometries Hint Solution P130. Rank, co-rank, and nullity Hint Solution P131. Components of the space of partial isometries Hint Solution P132. Unitary equivalence for partial isometries Hint Solution P133. Spectrum of a partial isometry Hint Solution 16. Polar Decomposition (P134-141) P134. Polar decomposition Hint Solution P135. Maximal polar representation Hint Solution P136. Extreme points Hint Solution P137. Quasinormal operators Hint Solution P138. Mixed Schwarz inequality Hint Solution P139. Quasinormal weighted shifts Hint Solution P140. Density of invertible operators Hint Solution P141. Connectedness of invertible operators Hint Solution 17. Unilateral Shift (P142-159) P142. Reducing subspaces of normal operators Hint Solution P143. Products of symmetries Hint Solution P144. Unilateral shift versus normal operators Hint Solution P145. Square root of shift Hint Solution P146. Commutant of the bilateral shift Hint Solution Pi47. Commutant of the unilateral shift Hint Solution P148. Commutant of the unilateral shift as limit Hint Solution P149. Characterization of isometries Hint Solution P150. Distance from shift to unitary operators Hint Solution P151. Square roots of shifts Hint Solution P152. Shifts as universal operators Hint Solution P153. Similarity to parts of shifts Hint Solution P154. Similarity to contractions Hint Solution P155. Wandering subspaces Hint Solution P156. Special invariant subspaces of the shift Hint Solution P157. Invariant subspaces of the shift Hint Solution P158. F. and M. Riesz theorem Hint Solution P159. Reducible weighted shifts Hint Solution 18. Cyclic Vectors (P160-168) P160. Cyclic vectors Hint Solution P161. Density of cyclic operators Hint Solution P162. Density of non-cyclic operators Hint Solution P163. Cyclicity of a direct sum Hint Solution P164. Cyclic vectors of adjoints Hint Solution P165. Cyclic vectors of a position operator Hint Solution P166. Totality of cyclic vectors Hint Solution P167. Cyclic operators and matrices Hint Solution P168. Dense orbits Hint Solution 19. Properties of Compactness (P169-185) P169. Mixed continuity Hint Solution P170. Compact operators Hint Solution P171. Diagonal compact operators Hint Solution P172. Normal compact operators Hint Solution P173. Hilbert-Schmidt operators Hint Solution P174. Compact versus Hilbert-Schmidt Hint Solution P175. Limits of operators of finite rank Hint Solution P176. Ideals of operators Hint Solution P177. Compactness on bases Hint Solution P178. Square root of a compact operator Hint Solution P179. Fredholm alternative Hint Solution P180. Range of a compact operator Hint Solution P181. Atkinson's theorem Hint Solution P182. Weyl's theorem Hint Solution P183. Perturbed spectrum Hint Solution P184. Shift modulo compact operators Hint Solution P185. Distance from shift to compact operators Hint Solution 20. Examples of Compactness (P186-191) P186. Bounded Volterra kernels Hint Solution P187. Unbounded Volterra kernels Hint Solution P188. Volterra integration operator Hint Solution P189. Skew-symmetric Volterra operator Hint Solution P190. Norm 1, spectrum {1} Hint Solution P191. Donoghue lattice Hint Solution 21. Subnormal Operators (P192-209) P192. Putnam-Fuglede theorem Hint Solution P193. Algebras of normal operators Hint Solution P194. Spectral measure of the unit disc Hint Solution P195. Subnormal operators Hint Solution P196. Quasinormal invariants Hint Solution P197. Minimal normal extensions Hint Solution P198. Polynomials in the shift Hint Solution P199. Similarity of subnormal operators Hint Solution P200. Spectral inclusion theorem Hint Solution P201. Filling in holes Hint Solution P202. Extensions of finite co-dimension Hint Solution P203. Hyponormal operators Hint Solution P204. Normal and subnormal partial isometries Hint Solution P205. Norm powers and power norms Hint Solution P206. Compact hyponormal operators Hint Solution P207. Hyponormal, compact imaginary part Hint Solution P208. Hyponormal idempotents Hint Solution P209. Powers of hyponormal operators Hint Solution 22. Numerical Range (P210-221) P210. Toeplitz-Hausdorff theorem Hint Solution P211. Higher-dimensional numerical range Hint Solution P212. Closure of numerical range Hint Solution P213. Numerical range of a compact operator Hint Solution P214. Spectrum and numerical range Hint Solution P215. Quasinilpotence and numerical range Hint Solution P216. Normality and numerical range Hint Solution P217. Subnormality and numerical range Hint Solution P218. Numerical radius Hint Solution P219. Normaloid, convexoid, and spectraloid operators Hint Solution P220. Continuity of numerical range Hint Solution P221. Power inequality Hint Solution 23. Unitary Dilations (P222-229) P222. Unitary dilations Hint Solution P223. Images of subspaces Hint Solution P224. Weak closures and dilations Hint Solution P225. Strong closures and extensions Hint Solution P226. Strong limits of hyponormal operators Hint Solution P227. Unitary power dilations Hint Solution P228. Ergodic theorem Hint Solution P229. von Neumann's inequality Hint Solution 24. Commutators (P230-240) P230. Commutators Hint Solution P231. Limits of commutators Hint Solution P232. Kleinecke-Shirokov theorem Hint Solution P233. Distance from a commutator to the identity Hint Solution P234. Operators with large kernels Hint Solution P235. Direct sums as commutators Hint Solution P236. Positive self-commutators Hint Solution P237. Projections as self-commutators Hint Solution P238. Multiplicative commutators Hint Solution P239. Unitary multiplicative commutators Hint Solution P240. Commutator subgroup Hint Solution 25. Toeplitz Operators (P241-250) P241. Laurent operators and matrices Hint Solution P242. Toeplitz operators and matrices Hint Solution P243. Toeplitz products Hint Solution P244. Compact Toeplitz products Hint Solution P245. Spectral inclusion theorem for Toeplitz operators Hint Solution P246. Continuous Toeplitz products Hint Solution P247. Analytic Toeplitz operators Hint Solution P248. Eigenvalues of Hermitian Toeplitz operators Hint Solution P249. Zero-divisors Hint Solution P250. Spectrum of a Hermitian Toeplitz operator Hint Solution HINTS (see the bookmarks under each problem) SOLUTIONS (see the bookmarks under each problem) References List of Symbols Index