• Title: Compact Operators

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    1 00:00:00,349 –> 00:00:02,210 Hello and welcome back to

    2 00:00:02,220 –> 00:00:03,490 functional analysis

    3 00:00:03,670 –> 00:00:05,289 and as always many, many

    4 00:00:05,300 –> 00:00:07,070 thanks to all the nice people

    5 00:00:07,079 –> 00:00:08,449 that support me on Steady

    6 00:00:08,460 –> 00:00:09,250 or PayPal.

    7 00:00:10,020 –> 00:00:11,390 We’ve already reached part

    8 00:00:11,399 –> 00:00:12,829 18 in our course

    9 00:00:12,840 –> 00:00:14,090 and today we want to talk

    10 00:00:14,100 –> 00:00:16,010 about compact operators.

    11 00:00:16,719 –> 00:00:18,440 As the name suggests, this

    12 00:00:18,450 –> 00:00:19,579 has something to do with

    13 00:00:19,590 –> 00:00:21,389 the compact sets we’ve already

    14 00:00:21,399 –> 00:00:21,899 studied.

    15 00:00:22,780 –> 00:00:24,149 Therefore, recall that the

    16 00:00:24,159 –> 00:00:25,989 idea of compactness has

    17 00:00:26,000 –> 00:00:27,950 been to extend the notion

    18 00:00:27,959 –> 00:00:29,469 of finiteness a little bit.

    19 00:00:30,229 –> 00:00:31,709 A similar thing we will now

    20 00:00:31,719 –> 00:00:33,220 do for operators

    21 00:00:33,849 –> 00:00:34,310 Here

    22 00:00:34,319 –> 00:00:36,080 the analogue of finiteness would

    23 00:00:36,090 –> 00:00:37,799 be linear operators between

    24 00:00:37,810 –> 00:00:39,139 finite dimensional vector

    25 00:00:39,150 –> 00:00:39,799 spaces.

    26 00:00:40,340 –> 00:00:41,880 So let’s look at an operator

    27 00:00:41,889 –> 00:00:43,340 from F^n to

    28 00:00:43,349 –> 00:00:45,319 F^m. On both sides,

    29 00:00:45,330 –> 00:00:46,889 we can just choose the normal

    30 00:00:46,900 –> 00:00:48,459 Euclidean norm, the standard

    31 00:00:48,470 –> 00:00:48,880 norm.

    32 00:00:49,319 –> 00:00:50,599 However, everything I say

    33 00:00:50,610 –> 00:00:51,729 now does not depend on the

    34 00:00:51,740 –> 00:00:52,220 norm.

    35 00:00:52,229 –> 00:00:53,529 It holds no matter which

    36 00:00:53,540 –> 00:00:54,529 norm you choose here.

    37 00:00:55,389 –> 00:00:56,409 The first step is not so

    38 00:00:56,419 –> 00:00:57,970 hard to show, it tells us

    39 00:00:57,979 –> 00:00:59,150 that the linear operator

    40 00:00:59,159 –> 00:01:00,590 between finite dimensional

    41 00:01:00,599 –> 00:01:02,479 normed spaces is always

    42 00:01:02,490 –> 00:01:03,340 continuous

    43 00:01:03,729 –> 00:01:04,888 and of course, you already

    44 00:01:04,900 –> 00:01:06,330 know continuous means the

    45 00:01:06,339 –> 00:01:07,889 same as bounded for linear

    46 00:01:07,900 –> 00:01:08,669 operators.

    47 00:01:09,330 –> 00:01:10,809 In other words, the image

    48 00:01:10,819 –> 00:01:12,690 of the unit ball under T

    49 00:01:12,699 –> 00:01:13,889 is a bounded set.

    50 00:01:14,379 –> 00:01:15,839 Now, this is a bounded set

    51 00:01:15,849 –> 00:01:17,269 in our finite dimensional

    52 00:01:17,279 –> 00:01:18,769 normed space F^m

    53 00:01:19,199 –> 00:01:20,610 and there you know this is

    54 00:01:20,620 –> 00:01:22,089 one half of the things you

    55 00:01:22,099 –> 00:01:23,430 need for being compact.

    56 00:01:24,019 –> 00:01:25,510 However, the second ingredient

    57 00:01:25,519 –> 00:01:26,989 we just get when we form

    58 00:01:27,000 –> 00:01:28,410 the closure of this set.

    59 00:01:28,819 –> 00:01:30,389 This means that we just can

    60 00:01:30,400 –> 00:01:32,260 use a bar over the set

    61 00:01:32,989 –> 00:01:34,449 and then we get a set that

    62 00:01:34,459 –> 00:01:36,330 is always compact in

    63 00:01:36,339 –> 00:01:36,919 F^m.

    64 00:01:37,629 –> 00:01:38,989 With this essentially, you

    65 00:01:39,000 –> 00:01:40,510 now know what a compact

    66 00:01:40,519 –> 00:01:41,290 operators is.

    67 00:01:42,250 –> 00:01:43,470 When we look at the image

    68 00:01:43,480 –> 00:01:45,139 of the unit ball and form

    69 00:01:45,150 –> 00:01:45,819 the closure

    70 00:01:45,830 –> 00:01:47,309 and this set is compact,

    71 00:01:47,319 –> 00:01:49,279 we speak of a compact operator.

    72 00:01:49,830 –> 00:01:51,349 Of course, this always holds

    73 00:01:51,360 –> 00:01:52,910 in this case, but not in

    74 00:01:52,919 –> 00:01:53,500 general.

    75 00:01:54,099 –> 00:01:55,510 In order to see that let’s

    76 00:01:55,519 –> 00:01:56,730 consider the identity

    77 00:01:56,739 –> 00:01:57,580 operator

    78 00:01:57,589 –> 00:01:58,330 in l^p.

    79 00:01:59,110 –> 00:02:00,610 Of course, identity operator

    80 00:02:00,620 –> 00:02:02,309 just means we take a sequence

    81 00:02:02,319 –> 00:02:03,980 x and send it to itself.

    82 00:02:04,449 –> 00:02:05,779 Therefore, calculating the

    83 00:02:05,790 –> 00:02:07,099 image of the unit ball is

    84 00:02:07,110 –> 00:02:08,660 not so hard. It stays the

    85 00:02:08,669 –> 00:02:09,380 unit ball.

    86 00:02:10,119 –> 00:02:11,160 Now we are interested in

    87 00:02:11,169 –> 00:02:12,259 the closure of the set.

    88 00:02:12,270 –> 00:02:13,779 So we use the bars again.

    89 00:02:14,490 –> 00:02:15,580 So what you have on the right-

    90 00:02:15,589 –> 00:02:17,009 hand side is just a closed

    91 00:02:17,029 –> 00:02:18,429 unit ball in l^p

    92 00:02:19,089 –> 00:02:20,169 and there we know from the

    93 00:02:20,179 –> 00:02:21,820 last video it’s closed and

    94 00:02:21,830 –> 00:02:23,789 bounded, but not compact.

    95 00:02:24,509 –> 00:02:25,570 Hence, we have something

    96 00:02:25,580 –> 00:02:25,809 here,

    97 00:02:25,820 –> 00:02:27,350 we would not call a compact

    98 00:02:27,360 –> 00:02:29,059 operator, because the image

    99 00:02:29,070 –> 00:02:30,509 is just too large in this

    100 00:02:30,520 –> 00:02:30,929 case.

    101 00:02:31,679 –> 00:02:33,229 So you should always remember

    102 00:02:33,240 –> 00:02:34,910 compact operators is what

    103 00:02:34,919 –> 00:02:36,589 we get when we extend the

    104 00:02:36,600 –> 00:02:38,059 finite dimensional operators

    105 00:02:38,070 –> 00:02:39,070 here a little bit.

    106 00:02:39,949 –> 00:02:41,559 OK, then let’s write down

    107 00:02:41,570 –> 00:02:42,740 the formal definition.

    108 00:02:43,210 –> 00:02:45,139 So we need two normed spaces

    109 00:02:45,149 –> 00:02:46,789 and often there will be Banach

    110 00:02:46,800 –> 00:02:48,449 spaces. Then a

    111 00:02:48,460 –> 00:02:49,910 bounded linear operator

    112 00:02:49,919 –> 00:02:51,500 T from X to

    113 00:02:51,509 –> 00:02:52,720 Y is called

    114 00:02:52,729 –> 00:02:53,559 compact,

    115 00:02:54,050 –> 00:02:55,720 if we have the thing we discussed

    116 00:02:55,729 –> 00:02:57,199 before, that this set

    117 00:02:57,210 –> 00:02:58,880 here is compact

    118 00:02:58,889 –> 00:03:00,699 in Y. Therefore, in the

    119 00:03:00,710 –> 00:03:02,509 case that Y is a finite

    120 00:03:02,520 –> 00:03:04,250 dimensional normed space, this

    121 00:03:04,259 –> 00:03:05,559 here is nothing special.

    122 00:03:06,250 –> 00:03:07,320 However, in the infinite

    123 00:03:07,330 –> 00:03:08,860 dimensional case, it really

    124 00:03:08,869 –> 00:03:09,309 is.

    125 00:03:09,949 –> 00:03:11,309 Hence, I would suggest that

    126 00:03:11,320 –> 00:03:12,710 we now look at a common

    127 00:03:12,720 –> 00:03:14,559 example. Let’s

    128 00:03:14,570 –> 00:03:16,139 look at an integral operator

    129 00:03:16,149 –> 00:03:17,750 defined for the continuous

    130 00:03:17,759 –> 00:03:18,389 functions.

    131 00:03:18,960 –> 00:03:20,179 So it should take a function

    132 00:03:20,190 –> 00:03:22,149 defined from 0 to 1 and

    133 00:03:22,160 –> 00:03:23,850 send that to another function

    134 00:03:23,860 –> 00:03:24,710 in the same space

    135 00:03:25,360 –> 00:03:26,820 and as often the space of

    136 00:03:26,830 –> 00:03:28,139 continuous functions should

    137 00:03:28,149 –> 00:03:29,740 carry the supremum norm.

    138 00:03:30,509 –> 00:03:32,270 So what we can do is apply

    139 00:03:32,279 –> 00:03:33,960 the operator T to a function

    140 00:03:33,970 –> 00:03:35,880 f and then we get out a new

    141 00:03:35,889 –> 00:03:36,520 function.

    142 00:03:36,979 –> 00:03:38,169 Hence, we can look what the

    143 00:03:38,179 –> 00:03:39,410 function does at a given

    144 00:03:39,419 –> 00:03:41,410 point s, where s comes from

    145 00:03:41,419 –> 00:03:42,330 the unit interval.

    146 00:03:43,029 –> 00:03:44,210 Now the number that comes

    147 00:03:44,220 –> 00:03:45,449 out here should be given

    148 00:03:45,460 –> 00:03:47,220 by an integral from 0 to

    149 00:03:47,229 –> 00:03:49,190 1 where we have the function

    150 00:03:49,199 –> 00:03:50,690 f involved, but

    151 00:03:50,699 –> 00:03:52,570 also a fixed function

    152 00:03:52,580 –> 00:03:53,050 k

    153 00:03:53,550 –> 00:03:54,570 and this function should

    154 00:03:54,580 –> 00:03:56,500 get the variable s and also

    155 00:03:56,509 –> 00:03:57,550 the integration variable

    156 00:03:57,559 –> 00:03:57,949 t.

    157 00:03:58,720 –> 00:03:59,949 So we have a function with

    158 00:03:59,960 –> 00:04:01,539 two variables and for us

    159 00:04:01,550 –> 00:04:03,270 it should be also a continuous

    160 00:04:03,279 –> 00:04:03,710 function.

    161 00:04:04,520 –> 00:04:06,449 So we have it from C defined

    162 00:04:06,460 –> 00:04:08,350 on the unit interval times

    163 00:04:08,360 –> 00:04:09,330 the unit interval.

    164 00:04:10,100 –> 00:04:11,360 Now, since the function k

    165 00:04:11,369 –> 00:04:12,759 goes into the definition

    166 00:04:12,770 –> 00:04:14,710 of T, I put it into the

    167 00:04:14,720 –> 00:04:15,509 index here.

    168 00:04:16,160 –> 00:04:17,690 OK, then let’s check if

    169 00:04:17,700 –> 00:04:19,059 T_k is indeed a

    170 00:04:19,070 –> 00:04:20,339 compact operator.

    171 00:04:21,170 –> 00:04:22,429 An important fact we will

    172 00:04:22,440 –> 00:04:24,230 need here is that the function

    173 00:04:24,239 –> 00:04:25,609 k is defined on a

    174 00:04:25,619 –> 00:04:26,709 compact set.

    175 00:04:26,720 –> 00:04:28,709 So it’s not just continuous,

    176 00:04:28,720 –> 00:04:30,660 it’s uniformly continuous.

    177 00:04:31,420 –> 00:04:32,730 To refresh your memory,

    178 00:04:32,739 –> 00:04:34,059 let’s write down what this

    179 00:04:34,070 –> 00:04:34,929 exactly means.

    180 00:04:35,720 –> 00:04:37,540 For all epsilon greater zero,

    181 00:04:37,549 –> 00:04:39,260 there exists a delta greater

    182 00:04:39,269 –> 00:04:41,140 zero such that for

    183 00:04:41,149 –> 00:04:42,859 all points we put in and

    184 00:04:42,869 –> 00:04:44,440 now we need two variables

    185 00:04:45,010 –> 00:04:46,339 and for them, it should hold

    186 00:04:46,350 –> 00:04:47,779 if the distance is less than

    187 00:04:47,790 –> 00:04:49,420 delta, the distance of the

    188 00:04:49,429 –> 00:04:50,820 images should be less than

    189 00:04:50,829 –> 00:04:51,589 epsilon.

    190 00:04:52,059 –> 00:04:53,100 On the left-hand side, we

    191 00:04:53,109 –> 00:04:54,170 measure the distance with

    192 00:04:54,179 –> 00:04:55,720 the Euclidean norm in R^2

    193 00:04:55,929 –> 00:04:57,100 and on the right-hand side,

    194 00:04:57,109 –> 00:04:58,399 we measure with the Euclidean

    195 00:04:58,410 –> 00:05:00,239 norm in R^1, which is the

    196 00:05:00,250 –> 00:05:00,940 absolute value.

    197 00:05:01,640 –> 00:05:03,600 Why we need the uniform continuity

    198 00:05:03,609 –> 00:05:05,299 here, we see in a moment.

    199 00:05:05,869 –> 00:05:06,859 The first step we have to

    200 00:05:06,869 –> 00:05:08,540 do when we see such an integral

    201 00:05:08,549 –> 00:05:10,399 operator is to check if

    202 00:05:10,410 –> 00:05:12,220 this integral defines

    203 00:05:12,230 –> 00:05:14,140 indeed a continuous function.

    204 00:05:15,029 –> 00:05:16,709 Simply because otherwise

    205 00:05:16,720 –> 00:05:18,029 the operator wouldn’t be

    206 00:05:18,040 –> 00:05:18,850 well defined.

    207 00:05:19,489 –> 00:05:21,309 It really should map continuous

    208 00:05:21,320 –> 00:05:22,760 functions to continuous

    209 00:05:22,769 –> 00:05:23,440 functions.

    210 00:05:23,850 –> 00:05:25,140 Checking the continuity

    211 00:05:25,149 –> 00:05:26,549 then means we look at the

    212 00:05:26,559 –> 00:05:28,029 difference of the images

    213 00:05:28,040 –> 00:05:29,459 when we put in different

    214 00:05:29,470 –> 00:05:29,989 points.

    215 00:05:30,660 –> 00:05:32,059 So this should be small when

    216 00:05:32,070 –> 00:05:33,579 the points s_1 and s_2

    217 00:05:33,589 –> 00:05:34,630 are close together.

    218 00:05:35,399 –> 00:05:37,100 Therefore, we first calculate

    219 00:05:37,109 –> 00:05:38,290 and then we can look what

    220 00:05:38,299 –> 00:05:38,859 happens.

    221 00:05:39,750 –> 00:05:40,730 Now, the first thing you

    222 00:05:40,739 –> 00:05:41,769 should see here is that we

    223 00:05:41,779 –> 00:05:43,220 can put that into one

    224 00:05:43,230 –> 00:05:43,809 integral.

    225 00:05:44,649 –> 00:05:46,440 So use some parentheses here

    226 00:05:46,450 –> 00:05:48,119 and delete this integral

    227 00:05:48,130 –> 00:05:48,399 here.

    228 00:05:49,299 –> 00:05:50,640 Then of course, we pull in

    229 00:05:50,649 –> 00:05:52,239 the absolute value. Then we

    230 00:05:52,250 –> 00:05:53,279 get an inequality

    231 00:05:54,130 –> 00:05:55,589 and with this, we have everything

    232 00:05:55,600 –> 00:05:57,369 we need, because this one

    233 00:05:57,380 –> 00:05:59,000 here is less than a supremum

    234 00:05:59,059 –> 00:05:59,989 norm of f

    235 00:06:00,140 –> 00:06:01,899 and this one by the uniform

    236 00:06:01,910 –> 00:06:03,859 continuity of k can be as

    237 00:06:03,869 –> 00:06:05,149 small as we want

    238 00:06:05,890 –> 00:06:07,390 and exactly this is what

    239 00:06:07,399 –> 00:06:08,670 we should formally write

    240 00:06:08,679 –> 00:06:10,230 in front of the whole calculation.

    241 00:06:10,899 –> 00:06:12,559 So for a given epsilon greater

    242 00:06:12,570 –> 00:06:13,700 than zero, we choose the

    243 00:06:13,709 –> 00:06:15,309 delta in such a way that

    244 00:06:15,320 –> 00:06:16,739 this whole thing holds.

    245 00:06:17,390 –> 00:06:18,440 Therefore, we can choose

    246 00:06:18,450 –> 00:06:20,000 s_1, s_2 from the unit

    247 00:06:20,010 –> 00:06:21,799 interval such that the distance

    248 00:06:21,809 –> 00:06:22,950 is less than delta.

    249 00:06:23,510 –> 00:06:25,489 For this s_1, s_2 here

    250 00:06:25,500 –> 00:06:27,420 and the same t on both sides,

    251 00:06:27,429 –> 00:06:28,910 we can apply what we know,

    252 00:06:28,980 –> 00:06:30,779 that this is less than epsilon.

    253 00:06:31,579 –> 00:06:33,500 By using also that this one

    254 00:06:33,510 –> 00:06:34,570 is less than the supremum

    255 00:06:34,720 –> 00:06:35,160 norm,

    256 00:06:35,170 –> 00:06:36,260 we are finished with the

    257 00:06:36,269 –> 00:06:37,820 whole integral. It’s

    258 00:06:37,829 –> 00:06:39,690 simply less than epsilon

    259 00:06:39,700 –> 00:06:41,179 times the supremum norm

    260 00:06:41,739 –> 00:06:43,239 and because the supremum norm

    261 00:06:43,250 –> 00:06:44,910 of f is just a constant in

    262 00:06:44,920 –> 00:06:46,440 the whole calculation, we

    263 00:06:46,450 –> 00:06:48,369 now know that this function

    264 00:06:48,380 –> 00:06:49,839 is indeed continuous.

    265 00:06:50,339 –> 00:06:51,700 So we can note, our

    266 00:06:51,709 –> 00:06:53,109 operator as written as

    267 00:06:53,119 –> 00:06:54,950 here, is well defined.

    268 00:06:55,769 –> 00:06:57,390 However, our calculation

    269 00:06:57,399 –> 00:06:58,989 here shows us even more.

    270 00:06:59,869 –> 00:07:01,730 If we define the set A

    271 00:07:01,779 –> 00:07:03,299 as the image of the unit

    272 00:07:03,309 –> 00:07:05,279 ball, then we see

    273 00:07:05,290 –> 00:07:07,049 by this whole estimate here,

    274 00:07:07,170 –> 00:07:08,450 that the set A is

    275 00:07:08,459 –> 00:07:09,609 uniformly equi

    276 00:07:09,809 –> 00:07:10,470 continuous.

    277 00:07:11,059 –> 00:07:12,299 If you don’t know what this

    278 00:07:12,309 –> 00:07:13,899 means anymore, let’s write

    279 00:07:13,910 –> 00:07:14,609 it down again.

    280 00:07:15,369 –> 00:07:16,910 It just means that for all

    281 00:07:16,920 –> 00:07:18,279 epsilon greater zero, there

    282 00:07:18,290 –> 00:07:19,869 exists a delta such that

    283 00:07:19,880 –> 00:07:21,869 for all s_1, s_3 and all

    284 00:07:21,880 –> 00:07:23,600 g in A, we have the

    285 00:07:23,609 –> 00:07:24,959 uniform continuity

    286 00:07:24,970 –> 00:07:25,910 implication here.

    287 00:07:26,570 –> 00:07:27,709 From the definition of the

    288 00:07:27,720 –> 00:07:29,220 last video, I only had to

    289 00:07:29,230 –> 00:07:30,410 change some names.

    290 00:07:30,940 –> 00:07:32,260 I used the name g for the

    291 00:07:32,269 –> 00:07:33,540 function here, because we

    292 00:07:33,549 –> 00:07:35,279 already had a function f

    293 00:07:35,940 –> 00:07:37,269 and of course, we needed

    294 00:07:37,279 –> 00:07:38,859 the names s_1, s_2 for

    295 00:07:38,869 –> 00:07:39,660 the variables.

    296 00:07:40,329 –> 00:07:41,299 However, what you should

    297 00:07:41,309 –> 00:07:42,799 see is that this one is the

    298 00:07:42,809 –> 00:07:44,279 definition of a being

    299 00:07:44,290 –> 00:07:46,279 uniformly equicontinuous

    300 00:07:46,350 –> 00:07:48,119 and it’s the same thing as

    301 00:07:48,130 –> 00:07:49,119 we have written here.

    302 00:07:50,109 –> 00:07:51,079 In other words, with the

    303 00:07:51,089 –> 00:07:52,559 calculation above, we have

    304 00:07:52,570 –> 00:07:54,279 proven that A is indeed

    305 00:07:54,290 –> 00:07:56,220 uniformly equicontinuous

    306 00:07:56,970 –> 00:07:58,029 at this point. You might

    307 00:07:58,040 –> 00:07:59,609 already guess that we want

    308 00:07:59,619 –> 00:08:01,350 to apply the Arzelà–Ascoli

    309 00:08:01,369 –> 00:08:02,079 theorem here.

    310 00:08:03,029 –> 00:08:04,329 Therefore, another step we

    311 00:08:04,339 –> 00:08:06,019 have to do is showing that

    312 00:08:06,029 –> 00:08:07,519 the whole set is bounded.

    313 00:08:07,529 –> 00:08:08,720 Or in other words that the

    314 00:08:08,730 –> 00:08:09,869 operator is bounded.

    315 00:08:10,570 –> 00:08:12,109 Hence, let’s calculate the

    316 00:08:12,119 –> 00:08:13,070 operator norm.

    317 00:08:13,619 –> 00:08:14,989 So we have the supremum of

    318 00:08:15,000 –> 00:08:16,839 all the norms of the images,

    319 00:08:16,850 –> 00:08:18,600 where f has norm one

    320 00:08:19,040 –> 00:08:20,230 by the definition of the

    321 00:08:20,239 –> 00:08:21,230 supremum norm.

    322 00:08:21,239 –> 00:08:22,769 This is the supremum over

    323 00:08:22,779 –> 00:08:24,670 all s, where we calculate

    324 00:08:24,679 –> 00:08:25,690 the absolute value of the

    325 00:08:25,700 –> 00:08:26,299 integral.

    326 00:08:26,760 –> 00:08:28,630 As often, we can just pull

    327 00:08:28,640 –> 00:08:29,929 in the absolute value into

    328 00:08:29,940 –> 00:08:31,910 the integral and get an inequality

    329 00:08:31,920 –> 00:08:32,308 out

    330 00:08:32,820 –> 00:08:34,308 and with this, we are almost

    331 00:08:34,320 –> 00:08:35,840 finished, because the last

    332 00:08:35,849 –> 00:08:37,590 part here is less or

    333 00:08:37,599 –> 00:08:38,849 equal than the supremum norm

    334 00:08:38,859 –> 00:08:39,229 of f

    335 00:08:39,969 –> 00:08:41,260 and this is by assumption

    336 00:08:41,270 –> 00:08:43,028 just one. This

    337 00:08:43,039 –> 00:08:44,239 means that we don’t need

    338 00:08:44,249 –> 00:08:45,708 the outer supremum anymore

    339 00:08:45,778 –> 00:08:47,179 and can just write down

    340 00:08:48,000 –> 00:08:49,789 everything is less or equal

    341 00:08:49,799 –> 00:08:50,979 than this integral.

    342 00:08:51,380 –> 00:08:52,940 However, this is also less

    343 00:08:52,950 –> 00:08:54,580 or equal than the supremum

    344 00:08:54,659 –> 00:08:56,419 norm of our function k.

    345 00:08:56,859 –> 00:08:58,320 As often, it’s not important

    346 00:08:58,330 –> 00:09:00,080 what the number here is exactly.

    347 00:09:00,140 –> 00:09:01,599 It’s only important that

    348 00:09:01,609 –> 00:09:03,500 it is constant, because then

    349 00:09:03,510 –> 00:09:05,280 we know that T_k is a

    350 00:09:05,289 –> 00:09:06,500 bounded operator

    351 00:09:06,950 –> 00:09:08,780 and now finally comes our

    352 00:09:08,789 –> 00:09:10,609 conclusion, we can apply

    353 00:09:11,090 –> 00:09:11,590 Arzelà–Ascoli.

    354 00:09:12,280 –> 00:09:13,830 This set, the image of the

    355 00:09:13,840 –> 00:09:15,690 unit ball is uniformly

    356 00:09:15,700 –> 00:09:17,630 equicontinuous and bounded.

    357 00:09:18,340 –> 00:09:19,940 Therefore, both things also

    358 00:09:19,950 –> 00:09:21,109 hold for the closure of the

    359 00:09:21,119 –> 00:09:21,630 set

    360 00:09:21,820 –> 00:09:23,669 and by Arzelà–Ascoli, we now

    361 00:09:23,679 –> 00:09:25,020 have a compact set

    362 00:09:25,530 –> 00:09:27,070 and by our definition, we

    363 00:09:27,080 –> 00:09:28,909 also know T_k,

    364 00:09:29,010 –> 00:09:30,750 the integral operator is

    365 00:09:30,760 –> 00:09:32,020 a compact operator.

    366 00:09:32,799 –> 00:09:34,270 So you see this was a long

    367 00:09:34,280 –> 00:09:36,030 example, but it is a standard

    368 00:09:36,039 –> 00:09:37,489 example for a compact

    369 00:09:37,500 –> 00:09:38,150 operator.

    370 00:09:38,599 –> 00:09:40,070 Of course, we will talk about

    371 00:09:40,080 –> 00:09:41,669 compact operators in later

    372 00:09:41,679 –> 00:09:42,869 videos even more.

    373 00:09:43,580 –> 00:09:45,330 Therefore, as always, I hope

    374 00:09:45,340 –> 00:09:46,150 I see you there.

    375 00:09:46,380 –> 00:09:46,950 Bye.

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