Choice-free Hahn-Banach extension in a separable space
ID: choice-free-hahn-banach-extension-in-a-separable-space
In a real normed vector space with a specified countable dense subset, a bounded linear functional on any vector subspace admits a norm-preserving extension without the axiom of choice. Add the dense vectors one at a time using the supremum endpoint in the one-dimensional dominated extension of a real linear functional. This makes the recursion deterministic. Extend from the resulting dense subspace by continuity, using the least index in the dense list which approximates a given vector to within .
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