Solution

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The real Stone-Weierstrass theorem says that a real subalgebra which contains the constants and separates points is dense in for the uniform norm, when is compact Hausdorff space. If is also closed, . The complex version needs closure under complex conjugation; that extra condition is unnecessary here.

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