\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{LuciaZhang} \pdfinfo{ /Title (appendix-a-functional-analysis.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (LuciaZhang) /Subject (Appendix A - Functional Analysis Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{39A387} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F2F9F7} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Appendix A - Functional Analysis Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{LuciaZhang} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/136048/cs/48024/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}LuciaZhang \\ \uline{cheatography.com/luciazhang} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 28th April, 2026.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.84149 cm} x{3.13551 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Normed spaces and Banach spaces}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Strong convergence & ||x\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} - x||\textasciitilde{}X\textasciitilde{} -\textgreater{} 0 \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Continuous embedding & X ⊂ Y and ||x||\textasciitilde{}Y\textasciitilde{} ≤ C||x||\textasciitilde{}X\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Banach space = complete normed space} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Closure = add all limits of convergent sequences from the set} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.24425 cm} x{3.73275 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Bounded linear operators}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{D(A) ⊂ X, N(A) ⊂ X, R(A) ⊂ Y} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{A ∈ L(X,Y) \textless{}=\textgreater{} A linear and bounded} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Boundedness} & ||Ax||\textasciitilde{}Y\textasciitilde{} ≤ C||x||\textasciitilde{}X\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Operator norm & ||A|| = sup\textasciitilde{}x≠1\textasciitilde{} ||Ax||\textasciitilde{}Y\textasciitilde{}/||x||\textasciitilde{}X\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Inverse bounded ⟺ c||x||\textasciitilde{}X\textasciitilde{} ≤ ||Ax||\textasciitilde{}Y\textasciitilde{} (c \textgreater{} 0)} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.74195 cm} x{3.23505 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Convergence, Banach-Steinhaus}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Pointwise & ∀x, A\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}x -\textgreater{} Ax ∈ Y \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Uniform & ||A\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} - A||\textasciitilde{}L(X,Y)\textasciitilde{} -\textgreater{} 0 \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Banach-\{\{nl\}\}Steinhaus & pointwise bounded family =\textgreater{} sup\textasciitilde{}i\textasciitilde{} ||A\textasciitilde{}i\textasciitilde{}|| \textless{} ∞ \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.44333 cm} x{3.53367 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Hilbert spaces, weak convergence}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Hilbert space = Banach space + scalar product} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Weak \seqsplit{convergence} & x\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}⇀x ⟺ \textless{}x\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{},z\textgreater{} -\textgreater{}\{\{nl\}\} \textless{}x,z\textgreater{},∀z ∈ X \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Strong =\textgreater{} weak. In infinite dims: weak ⇏ strong} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Weak + convergence of norms =\textgreater{} strong} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.54287 cm} x{3.43413 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Riesz representation, adjoint operators}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{width=40\}\} Riesz & λ(x) = \textless{}z\textasciitilde{}λ\textasciitilde{}, x\textgreater{} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Adjoint & \textless{}A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{}y, x\textgreater{}\textasciitilde{}X\textasciitilde{} = \textless{}y, Ax\textgreater{}\textasciitilde{}Y\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Matrix case & A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{} = A\textasciicircum{}T\textasciicircum{} over ℝ \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Properties & (A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{})\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{} = A, ||A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{}|| = ||A||, ||A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{}A|| = ||A||\textasciicircum{}2\textasciicircum{} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.44333 cm} x{3.53367 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Orthogonality and projections}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{U\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} = \{x ∈ X : \textless{}x,u\textgreater{} = 0 ∀u ∈ U\}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{U\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} is always closed} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} If U closed: & X = U ⊕ U\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} If U not closed: & (U\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{})\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} = cl(U) \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Projection & z = P\textasciitilde{}U\textasciitilde{}x \{\{nl\}\} ⟺ z ∈ U and x - z ∈ U\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.23965 cm} x{2.73735 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Range/kernel identities}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} R(A)\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} = N(A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{}) & N(A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{})\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} = cl(R(A)) \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} R(A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{})\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} = N(A) & N(A)\textasciicircum{}⊥\textasciicircum{} = cl(R(A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{})) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Kernel closed, range may be non-closed} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.4931 cm} x{3.4839 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Orthonormal systems and bases}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Orthonormal & \textless{}u\textasciitilde{}i\textasciitilde{},u\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}\textgreater{} = δ\textasciitilde{}ij\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Bessel & ∑\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}|\textless{}x,u\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}\textgreater{}|\textasciicircum{}2\textasciicircum{} \textless{}= ||x||\textasciicircum{}2\textasciicircum{} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ONB expansion & x = ∑\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}\textless{}x,u\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}\textgreater{}u\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Projection & P\textasciitilde{}U\textasciitilde{}x = ∑\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}\textless{}x,u\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{}\textgreater{}u\textasciitilde{}j\textasciitilde{} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{0.9954 cm} x{3.9816 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Compact operators}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Compact & bounded sequence x\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} -\textgreater{} Ax\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} has a convergent subsequence \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Equivalent} & weak convergence in X -\textgreater{} strong convergence after A in Y \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Finite-dimensional range =\textgreater{} compact} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{I\textasciitilde{}d\textasciitilde{} compact ⟺ dim(X) \textless{} ∞} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{A,S ∈ L(X,Y), A or S compact =\textgreater{} A∘S compact} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{A compact ⟺ A\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{} compact} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4977 cm} p{0.4977 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Example: integral operators}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Kx(t) = ∫\textasciitilde{}0\textasciitilde{}\textasciicircum{}1\textasciicircum{} k(s,t)x(s)ds} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Approximate k by piecewise-constant k\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{K\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} finite rank =\textgreater{} K\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} compact; \{\{nl\}\} K\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} -\textgreater{} K in operator norm =\textgreater{} K compact.} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Self-adjoint ⟺ k(s,t) = k(t,s) a.e. (real case)} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.18988 cm} x{2.78712 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Spectral theorem (for compact, K=K\textasciicircum{}*\textasciicircum{})}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Kx = ∑\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}λ\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}\textless{}x,u\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}\textgreater{}u\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}, with λ\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} -\textgreater{} 0} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Ku\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{} = λ\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}u\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}, & \{u\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}\} ONB for cl(R(K)) \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{||K|| = |λ\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{}| when ordered by |λ\textasciitilde{}1\textasciitilde{}|≥|λ\textasciitilde{}2\textasciitilde{}|≥⋯≥0} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Inverse danger: divide by small λ\textasciitilde{}n\textasciitilde{}} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}