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The document outlines the core courses for the first year of the Mathematics Graduate Programme at HRI. The courses cover fundamental topics in algebra, analysis, topology and related areas. Coursework includes category theory, group theory, ring and module theory, field theory, functional analysis, measure theory, complex analysis, homotopy theory, homology, cohomology and differential manifolds. Students will learn from core textbooks and be assessed on their understanding of key mathematical structures and theorems.

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The document outlines the core courses for the first year of the Mathematics Graduate Programme at HRI. The courses cover fundamental topics in algebra, analysis, topology and related areas. Coursework includes category theory, group theory, ring and module theory, field theory, functional analysis, measure theory, complex analysis, homotopy theory, homology, cohomology and differential manifolds. Students will learn from core textbooks and be assessed on their understanding of key mathematical structures and theorems.

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Mathematics Graduate Programme, HRI

Syllabus for First Year Courses

Algebra I (Semester I)

Category theory: categories and functors; equivalence of categories;


inductive and projective limits.

Group Theory: the Jordan-Holder Theorem; solvable groups; symmetric


and alternating groups; nilpotent groups; groups acting on sets; the
Sylow Theorems; free groups.

Rings and Modules: Noetherian and Artinian conditions; the Hilbert


Basis Theorem; principal ideal domains; unique factorization
domains; inductive and projective limits of rings and modules;
bilinear maps and forms; the tensor product.

Field Theory: the Steinitz Theorem on algebraic closures; algebraic


extensions; finite fields; Galois theory and applications.

Textbook:

S. Lang, Algebra.

Algebra II (Semester II)

Multilinear algebra: tensor, symmetric, and exterior algebras; right


exactness of tensoring, and flat and faithfully flat modules; left
exactness of Hom, and injective and projective modules.

Commutative algebra: rings and modules of fractions; local rings;


integral extensions; transcendence degree; Noether's Normalization
Theorem; Hilbert's Nullstellensatz; discrete valuation rings;
Dedekind domains; primary decomposition.

Linear algebra: modules over principal ideal domains; the minimal


polynomial of an endomorphism; the Jordan canonical form; the
characteristic polynomial of an endomorphism; the Cayley-Hamilton
Theorem.

Textbook:

S. Lang, Algebra.
Analysis I (Semester I)

Calculus: Summary of calculus of several real variables; the Stone-Weierstrass


Theorem; Ascoli's Theorem.

Measure theory: Measure spaces; convergence theorems; product measure and


Fubini's Theorem; Borel measures on locally compact spaces, and the Riesz
Representation Theorem; the Lebesgue measure; regularity properties of Borel
measures; complex measures, differentiation and decomposition of measures; the
Radon-Nikodym Theorem.

Functional analysis: Topological vector spaces; Banach spaces; Hilbert spaces;


the Hahn-Banach Theorem; the Open Mapping Theorem; The Banach-Steinhaus
Theorem; bounded linear maps; linear functionals and dual spaces; L^p spaces;
Holder's inequality, Minkowski's inequality.

Textbooks:

1. W. Rudin, Real and complex analysis.

2. S. Lang, Real analysis.

3. W. Rudin, Functional analysis.

Analysis II (Semester II)

Distributions: The spaces D(U) and E(U) for an open subset U of R^n; basic
operations on distributions; the support of a distribution; convolution; approximate
identities; the Fourier transform on L^1(R^n); the Schwartz space of R^n; the
Inversion Theorem; Plancherel's theorem; tempered distributions.

Functional analysis: Banach algebras; the Gelfand-Naimark Theorem; bounded


operators on a Hilbert space; the Spectral Theorem for bounded normal operators
ona Hilbert space; compact operators; Fredholm operators and the index.

Complex analysis: Basic properties of holomorphic functions; relations with the


fundamental group and covering spaces; the Open Mapping Theorem; the Maximum
Modulus Theorem; zeros of holomorphic functions; classification of singularities;
meromorphic functions; the Weierstrass Factorization Theorem; brief account of the
Riemann Mapping Theorem; the Little Picard Theorem.

Textbooks:

1. W. Rudin, Functional analysis.

2. S. Lang, Real analysis.

3. W. Rudin, Real and complex analysis.


Topology I (Semester I)

General topology: Inductive and projective limits of topological spaces;


topological groups; proper maps; proper actions; homogeneous spaces.

Homotopy theory: Homotopy; retraction and deformation; suspension mapping


cylider; fundamental group; the Van Kampen Theorem; etale spaces; covering
spaces; homotopy lifting property; relations with the fundamental group; lifting of
maps; universal coverings; automorphisms of a covering; Galois coverings; the basic
definitions regarding higher homotopy groups.

Simplicial topology: Simplicial complexes; triangulations polyhedra; barycentric


subdivision; the Simplicial Approximation Theorem with applications.

Textbooks:

1. N. Bourbaki, General topology, vol. 1.

2. E. Spanier, Algebraic topology (1966).

3. W. S. Massey, Algebraic topology: an introduction (1967)

4. A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press (2002).

Topology II (Semester II)

Homology: simplicial homology; singular homology; the Mayer-Vietoris sequence;


The Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem; the Universal Coefficient Theorem; the
Kunneth Formula; CW complexes; cellular homology and computations for projective
spaces; the Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem.

Cohomology: singular cohomology; the Universal Coefficient Theorem; the


Kunneth Formula; cup and cap products; Poincare duality for a topological manifold.

Differentiable manifolds: basic notions; tangent and cotangent spaces; vector


fields and their flows; the Frobenius Theorem; consequences of the Inverse Function
Theorem; Sard's theorem.

Textbooks:

1. E. Spanier, Algebraic topology.

2. M. J. Greenberg and J. R. Harper, Algebraic topology.

3. A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press (2002).

4. G. E. Bredon, Topology and Geometry, Springer Verlag (1993).

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