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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 3 19F iv Solution by
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For , , giving an upper bound for the operator norm. By Urysohn lemma, there is with . Then has uniform norm and . Thus every distinct pair has operator norm , andThe stated hypotheses also permit a singleton . Then there are no distinct pairs, so the infimum is under the extended-real convention, or undefined as a real number. This edge case cannot be assigned the value .
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