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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 6 2 ii Solution by
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True. In the norm topology on the unit ball, the set is a neighbourhood of zero. If the relative weak topology agrees with it, there are finitely many continuous linear functionals and positive such thatIf contained a nonzero vector, rescaling it to have norm would put it in the left-hand set but not the right-hand set. Therefore . The linear mapis injective into a finite-dimensional scalar space, soThis proof works for either the open or closed unit-ball convention and does not require completeness.
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