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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 4 12G a Solution by
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Two norms on the same vector space are equivalent norms, or Lipschitz equivalent, if there are constants such that for every . The constants are uniform over the whole space.
Let be any norm on . The triangle inequality and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality giveThe reverse triangle inequality then gives , so is Euclidean-continuous; this continuity was derived, rather than assumed. On the compact Euclidean unit sphere, attains a strictly positive minimum , because it vanishes only at zero. Homogeneity yieldsFinally a linear map satisfies , again by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. The equivalence just proved transfers this bound to any norms on the source and target. Hence every such linear map is continuous.
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