JRF Math - Sample 2011

JRF IN MATHEMATICS 2011
TEST CODE RMI, RMII
There will be two tests RMI and RMII of 2 hours duration each in the forenoon
and in the afternoon. Topics to be covered in these tests along with an outline of
the syllabus and sample questions are given below:
1) Topics for RMI (Forenoon examination) : Real Analysis, Measure and Integra-
tion, Complex Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations and General Topology.
2) Topics for RMII (Afternoon examination) : Algebra, Linear Algebra, Functional

Analysis, Elementary Number Theory and Combinatorics.
Candidates will be judged based on their performance in both the tests.
OUTLINE OF THE SYLLABUS
1. General Topology : Topological spaces, Continuous functions, Connected-

ness, Compactness, Separation Axioms. Product spaces. Complete metric spaces.
Uniform continuity. Baire category theorem.
2. Functional Analysis : Normed linear spaces, Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces,

Compact operators. Knowledge of some standard examples like C[0, 1], Lp [0, 1].
Continuous linear maps (linear operators). Hahn-Banach Theorem, Open mapping
theorem, Closed graph theorem and the uniform boundedness principle.
3. Real analysis : Sequences and series, Continuity and differentiability of real val-
ued functions of one and two real variables and applications, uniform convergence,
Riemann integration.
4. Linear algebra : Vector spaces, linear transformations, characteristic roots and

characteristic vectors, systems of linear equations, inner product spaces, diagonal-
ization of symmetric and Hermitian matrices, quadratic forms.
5. Elementary number theory and Combinatorics: Divisibility, congruences,

standard arithmetic functions, permutations and combinations, and combinatorial
probability.
6. Lebesgue integration : Lebesgue measure on the line, measurable functions,

Lebesgue integral, convergence almost everywhere, monotone and dominated con-
vergence theorems.
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7. Complex analysis : Analytic functions, Cauchy’s theorem and Cauchy inte-

gral formula, maximum modulus principle, Laurent series, Singularities, Theory of
residues, contour integration.
8. Abstract algebra : Groups, homomorphisms, normal subgroups and quo-

tients, isomorphism theorems, finite groups, symmetric and alternating groups, di-
rect product, structure of finite Abelian groups, Sylow theorems. Rings and ideals,
quotients, homomorphism and isomorphism theorems, maximal ideals, prime ideals,
integral domains, field of fractions; Euclidean rings, principal ideal domains, unique
factoristation domains, polynomial rings. Fields, characteristic of a field, algebraic
extensions, roots of polynomials, separable and normal extensions, finite fields.
9. Ordinary differential equations : First order ODE and their solutions,

singular solutions, initial value problems for first order ODE, general theory of
homogeneous and nonhomogeneous linear differential equations, and Second order
ODE and their solutions.
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Topology
(1) Let (X, d) be a compact metric space. Suppose that f : X → X is a function

such that
d(f (x), f (y)) < d(x, y) for x 6= y, x, y ∈ X.
Then show that there exists x0 ∈ X such that f (x0 ) = x0 .

(2) Let X be a Hausdorff space. Let f : X → R be such that {(x, f (x)) : x ∈ X}
is a compact subset of X × R. Show that f is continuous.
(3) Let X be a compact Hausdorff space. Assume that the vector space of
real-valued continuous functions on X is finite dimensional. Show that X
is finite.
(4) Let (X, d) be a complete metric space, A1 ⊇ A2 ⊇ . . . be a sequence of
closed sets in X such that sup{d(x, y) : x, y ∈ An } tends to zero as n tends
to infinity. Let f : X → X be a continuous map. Show that
\ \
f ( An ) = f (An ).
n n
(5) Show that the set of all rational numbers with the usual topology is not
locally compact.
Functional analysis and Linear algebra

(6) Let y1 , y2 , . . . be a sequence in a Hilbert space. Let Vn be the linear span
of {y1 , y2 , . . . , yn }. Assume that kyn+1 k ≤ ky − yn+1 k for each y ∈ Vn for
n = 1, 2, 3, . . .. Show that hyi , yj i = 0 for i 6= j.
(7) Let E and F be real or complex normed linear spaces. Let Tn : E → F be
a sequence of continuous linear transformations such that supn kTn k < ∞.
Let
M = {x ∈ E| The sequence {Tn (x)}is Cauchy}.
Show that M is a closed set.
(8) Suppose that X is a normed linear space over R and f : X −→ R is a linear
functional. Show that the kernel of f is either closed or dense.
(9) Let X be an infinite dimensional Banach space. Prove that every basis of
X is uncountable.
(10) Let X and Y be complex, normed linear spaces which are not necessarily
complete. Let T : X → Y be a linear map such that {T xn } is a Cauchy
sequence in Y whenever {xn } is a Cauchy sequence in X. Show that T is
continuous.
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(11) Let L and T be two linear functionals on a real vector space V such that
L (v) = 0 implies T (v) = 0. Show that T = cL for some real number c.
(12) Let
 
0 1 0 0
 0 0 1 0 
B= .
 
 0 0 0 1 
0 0 0 0
Show that, for each nonzero scalar λ, (λI − B)−1 = Pλ (B) for some poly-
nomial Pλ (X) of degree 3.
(13) Let A be an n × n square matrix such that A2 is the identity. Show that
any n×1 vector can be expressed as a sum of at most two eigenvectors of A.
Real Analysis and Measure Theory

(14) Let a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . be a bounded sequence of real numbers. Define
(a1 + a2 + . . . + an )
sn = , n = 1, 2, 3, . . .
n
Show that lim inf an ≤ lim inf sn .
n→∞ n→∞
(15) Let p (x) be an odd degree polynomial in one variable with coefficients from
the set R of real numbers. Let g : R → R be a bounded continuous function.
Prove that there exists an x0 ∈ R such that p (x0 ) = g (x0 ).
(16) Suppose that U is a connected open subset of R2 and f : U → R is such
that ∂f ∂f
∂x ≡ 0 and ∂y ≡ 0 on U . Show that f is a constant function.
(17) Let f1 , f2 , f3 , . . . and f be nonnegative Lebesgue integrable functions on R
such that
Zy Zy
lim fn (x)dx = f (x)dx for each y ∈ R
n→∞
−∞ −∞
Z∞ Z∞
and lim fn (x)dx = f (x)dx.
n→∞
−∞ −∞
R R
Show that lim inf fn (x)dx ≥ f (x)dx for any open subset U of R.
n→∞
U U
(18) Let f be a uniformly continuous real valued function on the real line R.
Assume that f is integrable with respect to the Lebesgue measure on R.
Show that f (x) → 0 as |x| → ∞.
(19) Let (Ω, A, µ) be a probability space, i.e. µ(Ω) = 1. Let f ≥ 0 be a measur-
able function on Ω. Show that
Z
1 1
dµ ≥ R .
Ω f Ω
f dµ
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(20) Let (Ω, A, µ) be a probability space. Let f ≥ 0 be measurable. Show that

R R∞
f (w)dµ(w) = 0 µ{w | f (w) ≥ x}dx.
Elementary Number Theory and Combinatorics

(p−1)!
(21) Let p be a prime and r an integer, 0 < r < p. Show that r!(p−r)! is an
integer.
(22) If a and b are integers such that 9 divides a2 + ab + b2 then show that 3
divides both a and b.
(23) Let c be a 3n digit number whose digits are all equal. Show that 3n divides
c.
(24) Prove that x4 − 10x2 + 1 is reducible modulo p for every prime p.
(25) Does there exist an integer x satisfying the following congruences?
10x = 1(mod 21)
5x = 2(mod 6)
4x = 1(mod 7)
Justify your answer.
(26) Suppose that there are n boxes labelled 1, 2, . . . n and there are n balls also
labelled similarly. The balls are thrown into boxes completely randomly so
that each box receives one ball.
(a) How many possible arrangements of balls in boxes is possible?
(b) Find the probability that the ball labelled 1 goes into the box labelled
1.
(c) Find the probability that at least one ball is in the box with the same
label.
Complex Analysis
(27) Suppose for an analytic function f its zero set Zf is uncountable. Show
that f ≡ 0.
(28) Let C be the set of complex numbers and let f n be an analytic
o function
n
on the open disc {z ∈ C | |z| < 1}. Assume that ddznf (0) is a bounded
sequence. Show that f has an analytic extension to C.
(29) Let f, g : C → C be entire functions with g(z) 6= 0 for all z ∈ C. Assume
that lim|z|→∞ fg(z)(z)
exists. Show that either f (z) = 0 for all z ∈ C or
f (z) 6= 0 for all z ∈ C.
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Abstract Algebra
(30) Let Sn denote the group of permutations of {1, 2, 3, . . . , n} and let k be an
integer between 1 and n. Find the number of elements x in Sn such that
the cycle containing 1 in the cycle decomposition of x has length k.
(31) Let C be the field of complex numbers and ϕ : C[X, Y, Z] → C[t] be the
ring homomorphism such that
ϕ(a) = a for all a in C,
ϕ(X) = t,
ϕ(Y ) = t2 , and
ϕ(Z) = t3 .
Determine the kernel of ϕ.
√ √
(32) Show that there is no field isomorphism between Q( 2) and Q( 3). Are
they isomorphic as vector spaces over Q?
(33) Determine finite subgroups of the multiplicative group of non-zero complex
numbers.
(34) Let Z[X] denote the ring of polynomials in X with integer coefficients. Find
an ideal I in Z[X] such that Z[X]/I is a field of order 4.
Differential Equations
(35) Let y : [a, b] → R be a solution of the equation
d2 y dy
+ P (x) + Q (x) y (x) = 0,
dx2 dx
where P (x) and Q (x) are continuous functions on [a, b]. If the graph of
the function y (x) is tangent to X-axis at any point of this interval, then
prove that y is identically zero.
(36) Let f : R → R be a continuous function. Consider the differential equation
y 0 (t) + y(t) = f (t) (∗)
on R.
a) Show that (∗) can have at most one bounded solution.
b) If f is bounded, show that (∗) has a bounded solution.
(37) Let q(X) be a polynomial in X of degree n with real coefficients and let k
be a non-zero real number. Show that the differential equation
dy
+ ky(x) = q(x)
dx
has exactly one polynomial solution of degree n.

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JRF IN MATHEMATICS 2011

TEST CODE RMI, RMII

2) Topics for RMII (Afternoon examination) : Algebra, Linear Algebra, Functional

Candidates will be judged based on their performance in both the tests.

OUTLINE OF THE SYLLABUS

1. General Topology : Topological spaces, Continuous functions, Connected-

2. Functional Analysis : Normed linear spaces, Banach spaces, Hilbert spaces,

4. Linear algebra : Vector spaces, linear transformations, characteristic roots and

5. Elementary number theory and Combinatorics: Divisibility, congruences,

6. Lebesgue integration : Lebesgue measure on the line, measurable functions,

7. Complex analysis : Analytic functions, Cauchy’s theorem and Cauchy inte-

8. Abstract algebra : Groups, homomorphisms, normal subgroups and quo-

9. Ordinary differential equations : First order ODE and their solutions,

(1) Let (X, d) be a compact metric space. Suppose that f : X → X is a function

d(f (x), f (y)) < d(x, y) for x 6= y, x, y ∈ X.

Then show that there exists x0 ∈ X such that f (x0 ) = x0 .

Functional analysis and Linear algebra

Real Analysis and Measure Theory

(20) Let (Ω, A, µ) be a probability space. Let f ≥ 0 be measurable. Show that

Elementary Number Theory and Combinatorics

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