525 Assignments for Spring '09

  1. p.7 #2 -- "get-acquainted special"

  2. p.8 #5

  3. p.8 #9

  4. p.12 #3

  5. p.12 #5

    BONUS p.13 #7 (as corrected)

  6. p.15 #4 (omit "disjoint")

  7. p.15 #8

  8. p.18 #5

  9. p.25 #3

  10. p.25 #7

  11. p.27 #1

  12. p.28 #7 first part only.

    BONUS p.28 #11.

  13. p.36 #5 first part only; extra credit for second part.

  14. p.38 #13

    BONUS Is a bounded linear operator also characterized as mapping bounded sets to bounded sets? (Proof or counterexample.)

  15. p.45 #1

  16. For a metric space (X,d), prove the Hausdorff distance is a metric on the hyperspace of compact subapaces of X. For Extra Credit, prove that is complete if is.

  17. Prove the union property of the Hausdorff metric as given in class.

    BONUS Do we have enough tools to prove the density of the dyadic fractions in [0,1]? For example, does it follow from the example in class?

  18. Prove directly that the Cantor set is indeed the attractor of the example presented in class.

  19. Prove that if X is compact, so is the hyperspace of compact subspaces.

  20. Do the problem about the triangular seed for the extension of the Cantor set contraction to the real plane.

  21. Prove that a decreasing sequence of nested compact sets in converges in the hyperspace. Determine when the limit equals the intersection; if not always, what else can happen?

  22. Koch's Curve, all three parts.

  23. Let be compact. Prove that an increasing sequence of nested compact sets is Cauchy, hence converges in the hyperspace.
    Let be a compact set that is contained in the image of every compact set under some contraction Gamma. Express the attractor of Gamma using the union of all the iterates of under Gamma.

    BONUS If is not compact, precisely when does such a sequence converge, and how does the limit relate to the union?

  24. Do the problem about the circular seed.

  25. Cantor Function #1
  26. " #2
  27. " #3

    BONUS How many topologies are there on a finite set of points?

  28. Cantor Function #4 -- due Mon 18 May by 4:30 pm

  29. Find two topological spaces and such that every function from X  to is continuous, while the only continuous functions from Y to are the constants. -- due Mon 18 May by 4:30 pm

  30. Prove that Sierpinski space is path-connected. -- due Mon 18 May by 4:30 pm


All rewrites of ungraded assignments
and any bonus problems
are due Friday 15 May by 4:30 pm

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