(October 2, 2018) 01b. Norms and metrics on vectorspaces Paul Garrett
[email protected] http:=/www.math.umn.edu/egarrett/ [This document is http:=/www.math.umn.edu/egarrett/m/real/notes 2018-19/01b Banach.pdf] 1. Normed vector spaces 2. Inner-product spaces and Cauchy-Schwarz-Bunyakowsky 3. Normed spaces of continuous linear maps 4. Dual spaces of normed spaces 5. Extension by continuity Many natural real or complex vector spaces of functions, such as Co[a; b] and Ck[a; b], have (several!) natural metrics d(; ) ncoming from norms j · j by the recipe d(v; w) = jv − wj A real or complex vector space with an inner product h; i always has an associated norm 1 jvj = hv; vi 2 If so, the vector space has much additional geometric structure, including notions of orthogonality and projections. However, very often the natural norm on a vector space of functions does not come from an inner product, which creates complications. When the vector space is complete with respect to the associated metric, the vector space is a Banach space. Abstractly, Banach spaces are less convenient than Hilbert spaces (complete inner-product spaces), and normed spaces are less convenient than inner-product spaces. 1. Normed vector spaces A real or complex [1] vectorspace V with a non-negative, real-valued function, the norm, j · j : V −! R with properties jx + yj ≤ jxj + jyj (triangle inequality) jαxj = jαj · jxj (α real/complex, x 2 V ) jxj = 0 ) x = 0 (positivity) is a normed (real or complex) vectorspace, or simply normed space.