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Basic Analysis – Gently Done Topological Vector Spaces

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98 <strong>Basic</strong> <strong>Analysis</strong><br />

for x ∈ X = ℓ 1 . This is a norm because ϕ is linear and injective. To see that X is<br />

complete with respect to this norm, suppose that (x n ) is a Cauchy sequence with<br />

respect to | · |. Then (ϕ(x n )) is a Cauchy sequence in ℓ 2 . Since ℓ 2 is complete,<br />

there is some y ∈ ℓ 2 such that �ϕ(x n )−y� 2 → 0. Now, ϕ is surjective and so we<br />

may write y as y = ϕ(x) for some x ∈ ℓ 1 . We have<br />

�ϕ(x n )−y� 2 = �ϕ(x n )−ϕ(x)� 2<br />

= |x n −x|<br />

and it follows that |x n −x| → 0 as n → ∞. In other words, ℓ 1 is complete with<br />

respect to the norm |· |.<br />

We claim that the norms �·� 1 and |· | are not equivalent norms on X = ℓ 1 .<br />

Indeed, we have that ϕ(a n ) = b n and so |a n | = �b n � 2 = 1/ √ n → 0 as n → ∞.<br />

However, �a n � 1 = 1 for all n.<br />

Department of Mathematics King’s College, London

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