Basic Analysis – Gently Done Topological Vector Spaces
Basic Analysis – Gently Done Topological Vector Spaces
Basic Analysis – Gently Done Topological Vector Spaces
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
10: Fréchet <strong>Spaces</strong> 119<br />
Example 10.20 Let X be the normed space of those sequences (xk ) of complex<br />
numbers with only a finite number of non-zero terms equipped with the usual<br />
component-wiseadditionandscalarmultiplicationandnorm�(x k )� = supk |xk |(=<br />
maxk |xk |). For each n ∈ N, let Tn be the linear operator Tn : X → X with action<br />
given by Tn (xk ) = (akxk ) where ak = min{k,n}. Clearly, each Tn is continuous<br />
(�Tn (xk )� ≤ n�(xk )�). Moreover, (Tn (xk )) converges, as n → ∞, to T(xk ), where<br />
T : X → X is the linear map T(xk ) = (kxk ). However, the map T is not<br />
continuous—for example, if (x (n) ) is the sequence of elements of X with x (n) the<br />
complex sequence whose only non-zero term is the nth , which is equal to 1<br />
n , then<br />
x (n) → 0 in X whereas �Tx (n) � = 1 for all n ∈ N.<br />
Theorem 10.21 (Open Mapping theorem) Suppose that X and Y are Fréchet<br />
spaces and that T : X → Y is a continuous linear mapping from X onto Y. Then<br />
T is an open mapping.<br />
Proof We must show that T(G) is open in Y whenever G is open in X. If G is<br />
empty, so is T(G), so suppose that G is a non-empty open set in X. Let b ∈ T(G)<br />
with b = T(a) for some a ∈ G. We need to show that b is an interior point of<br />
T(G). By translating G by −a and T(G) by T(−a) = −b, this amounts to showing<br />
that for any neighbourhood V of 0 in X, 0 is an interior point of T(V). Indeed,<br />
since G − a is an open neighbourhood of 0, it would follow that 0 is an interior<br />
point of T(G−a), that is, there is an open set W with 0 ∈ W ⊆ T(G−a). Hence<br />
T(a)+W ⊆ T(G), which is to say that b = T(a) is an interior point of T(G).<br />
Let d be a translation invariant metric compatible with the topology of X,<br />
and let V be any neighbourhood of 0. Then there is some r > 0 such that<br />
{x ∈ X : d(x,0) < r} ⊆ V. Set<br />
V n = {x ∈ X : d(x,0) < 2 −n r}, n = 0,1,2,....<br />
The first step is to show that there is an open neighbourhood W of 0 such that<br />
W ⊆ T(V 1 ).<br />
It is easy to see that V 2 −V 2 ⊆ V 1 , and so<br />
and therefore<br />
T(V 2 )−T(V 2 ) ⊆ T(V 1 )<br />
T(V 2 )−T(V 2 ) ⊆ T(V 2 )−T(V 2 ) ⊆ T(V 1 )<br />
using −A = (−A) and A+B ⊆ A+B, for any subsets A,B in a topological vector<br />
space. We claim that T(V 2 ) has non-empty interior. To see this, we note that<br />
Y = T(X) =<br />
∞�<br />
kT(V2 )<br />
k=1