Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-analysis-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/1/b/iii/solution

Write . This is indeed a norm: the triangle inequality and homogeneity follow from the scalar absolute value, and vanishing of every partial sum forces every coordinate to vanish. It is finite on because .
Let and let be its first entries followed by zeros. The alternating-series bound gives, for ,
Thus these truncations are Cauchy for . But for every coordinate, since is the difference of two consecutive partial sums. Any -limit would consequently have coordinates . This sequence is not in . Hence

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