NOTE ON MATH 4010: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS CHI-WAI LEUNG Throughout this note, all spaces X; Y; :: are normed spaces over the field K = R or C. Let BX := fx 2 X : kxk ≤ 1g and SX := fx 2 X : kxk = 1g denote the closed unit ball and the unit sphere of X respectively. We write a sequence of numbers as a function x : f1; 2; :::g ! K. 1. Classical Normed spaces The following examples are important classes in the study of functional analysis. Example 1.1. Put 1 c0 := f(x(i)) : x(i) 2 K; lim jx(i)j = 0g and ` := f(x(i)) : x(i) 2 K; sup x(i) < 1g: i 1 1 Then c0 is a subspace of ` . The sup-norm k · k1 on ` is defined by kxk1 := supi jx(i)j for 1 1 1 x 2 ` . Then ` is a Banach space and (c0; k · k1) is a closed subspace of ` (Check !) and hence c0 is also a Banach space too. Let c00 := f(x(i)) : there are only finitly many x(i)'s are non-zerog: Also, c00 is endowed with the sup-norm defined above. Then c00 is not a Banach space (Why?) but it is dense in c0, that is, c00 = c0 (Check!). Example 1.2. For 1 ≤ p < 1. Put 1 p X p ` := f(x(i)) : x(i) 2 K; jx(i)j < 1g: i=1 1 1 p X p p p Also, ` is equipped with the norm kxkp := ( jx(i)j ) p for x 2 ` . Then ` becomes a Banach i=1 space under the norm k · kp. Example 1.3. Let X be a locally compact Hausdorff space, for example, K. Let C0(X) be the space of all continuous K-valued functions f on X which are vanish at infinity, that is, for every " > 0, there is a compact subset D of X such that jf(x)j < " for all x 2 X n D. Now C0(X) is endowed with the sup-norm, that is, kfk1 = sup jf(x)j x2X for every f 2 C0(X). Then C0(X) is a Banach space. (Try to prove this fact for the case X = R. Just use the knowledge from MATH 2060 !!!) 2. Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces We say that two norms k · k and k · k0 on a vector space X are equivalent, write k · k ∼ k · k0, if 0 there are positive numbers c1 and c2 such that c1k · k ≤ k · k ≤ c2k · k on X. Date: February 11, 2017. 1 2 CHI-WAI LEUNG 1 Example 2.1. Consider the norms k · k1 and k · k1 on ` . We are going to show that k · k1 and k · k1 are not equivalent. In fact, if we put xn(i) := (1; 1=2; :::; 1=n; 0; 0; ::::) for n; i = 1; 2:::. Then 1 xn 2 ` for all n. Notice that (xn) is a Cauchy sequence with respect to the norm k · k1 but it is 1 not a Cauchy sequence with respect to the norm k · k1. Hence k · k1 k · k1 on ` . Proposition 2.2. All norms on a finite dimensional vector space are equivalent. Proof. Let X be a finite dimensional vector space and let fe1; :::; eng be a vector base of X. For Pn Pn each x = i=1 αiei for αi 2 K, define kxk0 = i=1 jαij. Then k · k0 is a norm X. The result is obtained by showing that all norms k · k on X are equivalent to k · k0. Pn Notice that for each x = αiei 2 X, we have kxk ≤ ( max keik)kxk0. It remains to find i=1 1≤i≤n n c > 0 such that ck · k0 ≤ k · k. In fact, let K be equipped with the sup-norm k · k1, that is n k(α1; :::; αn)k1 = max1≤1≤n jαij. Define a real-valued function f on the unit sphere SKn of K by f :(α1; :::; αn) 2 SKn 7! kα1e1 + ··· + αnenk: Notice that the map f is continuous and f > 0. It is clear that SKn is compact with respect to the n sup-norm k · k1 on K . Hence, there is c > 0 such that f(α) ≥ c > 0 for all α 2 SKn . This gives kxk ≥ ckxk0 for all x 2 X as desired. The proof is finished. Corollary 2.3. We have the following assertions. (i) All finite dimensional normed spaces are Banach spaces. Consequently, any finite dimen- sional subspace of a normed space must be closed. (ii) The closed unit ball of any finite dimensional normed space is compact. Proof. Let (X; k · k) be a finite dimensional normed space. With the notation as in the proof of Proposition 2.2 above, we see that k · k must be equivalent to the norm k · k0. It is clear that X is complete with respect to the norm k · k0 and so is complete in the original norm k · k. The Part (i) follows. For Part (ii), it is clear that the compactness of the closed unit ball of X is equivalent to saying that any closed and bounded subset being compact. Therefore, Part (ii) follows from the simple observation that any closed and bounded subset of X with respect to the norm k · k0 is compact. The proof is complete. In the rest of this section, we are going to show the converse of Corollary 2.3(ii) also holds. Before this result, we need the following useful result. Lemma 2.4. Riesz's Lemma: Let Y be a closed proper subspace of a normed space X. Then for each θ 2 (0; 1), there is an element x0 2 SX such that d(x0;Y ) := inffkx − yk : y 2 Y g ≥ θ. Proof. Let u 2 X − Y and d := inffku − yk : y 2 Y g. Notice that since Y is closed, d > 0 d and hence, we have 0 < d < θ because 0 < θ < 1. This implies that there is y0 2 Y such that d u−y0 0 < d ≤ ku − y0k < . Now put x0 := 2 S . We are going to show that x0 is as desired. θ ku−y0k X Indeed, let y 2 Y . Since y0 + ku − y0ky 2 Y , we have 1 kx0 − yk = ku − (y0 + ku − y0ky)k ≥ d=ku − y0k > θ: ku − y0k So, d(x0;Y ) ≥ θ. Remark 2.5. The Riesz's lemma does not hold when θ = 1. The following example can be found in the Diestel's interesting book without proof (see [2, Chapter 1 Ex.3(i)]). R 1 Let X = fx 2 C([0; 1]; R): x(0) = 0g and Y = fy 2 X : 0 y(t)dt = 0g. Both X and Y are endowed with the sup-norm. Notice that Y is a closed proper subspace of X. We are going to show 3 that for any x 2 SX , there is y 2 Y such that kx − yk1 < 1. Thus, the Riesz's Lemma does not hold as θ = 1 in this case. In fact, let x 2 SX . Since x(0) = 0 with kxk1 = 1, we can find 0 < a < 1=4 such that jx(t)j ≤ 1=4 for all t 2 [0; a]. Notice that since x is uniform continuous on [a; 1], for any 0 < " < 1=4, there 0 0 is δ > 0 such that jx(t) − x(t )j < "=4 when jt − t j < δ. Now we find a partition a = t0 < t1 < ··· < tn = 1 with tk − tk−1 < δ for all k = 1; 2; :::n and jx(tk)j < 1 for all k = 1; 2:::; n − 1. Then 0 0 supfjx(t) − x(t )j : t; t 2 [tk−1; tk]g < "=4. We let pk−1 := supft 2 [tk−1; tk]: xj[tk−1;t] > −1 + "g if it exists, otherwise, put pk−1 := tk−1. Similarly, let qk := infft 2 [tk−1; tk]: xj[t;tk] > −1 + "g if it exists, otherwise, put qk := tk. So, one can find a continuous function φ on [a; 1] such that 8 " if t 2 [t ; t ] and xj > −1 + ": > k−1 k [tk−1;tk] > <−" if t 2 [pk−1; qk] and xj[tk−1;tk] ≯ −1 + ": φ(t) = −2" (t − tk−1) + " if xj[t ;t ] ≯ −1 + " and tk−1 < t < pk−1: > pk−1−tk−1 k−1 k > 2" :> (t − tk) + " if xj −1 + " and qk < t < tk: tk−qk [tk−1;tk] ≯ Notice that if xj[tk−1;tk] ≯ −1 + ", then tk−1 < pk−1 or qk < tk. So, kxj[a;1] − φk1 < 1. R 1 It is because kφk1 < 2", we have j a φ(t)dtj ≤ 2"(1 − a). On the other hand, as jx(t)j < 1=4 on [0; a], so if we further choose " small enough such that (1 − a)(2") < a=4, then we can find a continuous function y1 on [0; a] such that jy1(t)j < 1=4 on [0; a] with ; y1(0) = 0; y1(a) = x(a) and R a R 1 0 y1(t)dt = − a φ(t)dt. Now we define y = y1 on [0; a] and y = φ on [a; 1]. Then ky − xk1 < 1 and y 2 Y is as desired. Theorem 2.6. X is a finite dimensional normed space if and only if the closed unit ball BX of X is compact. Proof. The necessary condition has been shown by Proposition 2.3(ii). Now assume that X is of infinite dimension. Fix an element x1 2 SX .