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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ib Paper 4 13F Solution by
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Two norms are Lipschitz equivalent norms when constants satisfy for every vector . Applying these inequalities to shows that a sequence is a Cauchy sequence for one norm exactly when it is so for the other; applying them to likewise equates convergence. If one norm is complete, a Cauchy sequence for the other converges using the first norm and hence also the second. Interchanging the norms proves completeness is preserved in both directions.
Write and set . If , then , and the triangle inequality givesScaling a nonzero gives for every . The reverse triangle inequality now impliesso is continuous, indeed Lipschitz, in the Euclidean norm.
Suppose there were no positive lower bound on the Euclidean unit sphere. We could choose with but . The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem supplies a subsequence converging in the Euclidean norm to . Continuity of both norms gives and , contradicting definiteness. Therefore some satisfies on the unit sphere. Scaling again proves the finite-dimensional equivalence of norms:
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