A3.3 B3.2

Functional Analysis
Part II, 2004

(i) Let HH be an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Show that HH has a (countable) orthonormal basis if and only if HH has a countable dense subset. [You may assume familiarity with the Gram-Schmidt process.]

State and prove Bessel's inequality.

(ii) State Parseval's equation. Using this, prove that if HH has a countable dense subset then there is a surjective isometry from HH to l2l^{2}.

Explain carefully why the functions einθ,nZe^{i n \theta}, n \in \mathbb{Z}, form an orthonormal basis for L2(T)L^{2}(\mathbb{T})