Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-functional-analysis-and-banach-and-c-algebras-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/a/2/solution

Regard the spaces as real and set . Its real norm equals , since rotating any test vector makes its functional value real and nonnegative without changing its norm. By the allowed real Hahn-Banach theorem extend to a real-linear with that norm, and define . Real linearity gives , so is complex linear. On this formula recovers . Also ; rotating a test vector again gives . The reverse norm inequality follows by restriction to , proving a norm-preserving complex extension.
We use two standard consequences: a point outside a closed subspace can be separated by a bounded functional annihilating that subspace, and the norm of a vector is the supremum of its pairings with dual unit-ball functionals. If annihilates , the scalar holomorphic function vanishes at the prescribed sequence tending to zero. Its identity theorem makes it identically zero. Separation then gives for every .
For extend to with the same norm and put . Then is holomorphic with . For the understood nonzero increments , the Cauchy integral formula on gives
Taking absolute values, bounding the contour length by , and each denominator below by , , proves exactly the stated estimate.
Fix and restrict . Taking the supremum over bounds the norm of the difference of the two -valued difference quotients by a fixed constant times . They are therefore Cauchy as . Since is a closed subspace of a Banach space, it is complete. Consequently the derivative exists as a norm limit in . The labelled (a)-(c) are the simultaneous hypotheses, not separate claims to prove.

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