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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 117 4 c Solution by
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Put , with the absolute constant chosen sufficiently large below, and suppose for a contradiction that no with satisfies .
LetThe set is compact and convex, while is closed and convex, so is closed and convex. We use the following finite-dimensional form of the Hahn-Banach separation theorem: if a point lies outside a nonempty closed convex set, there is a linear functional whose value at the point is strictly greater than its supremum over that set. Identifying linear functionals on through the inner product, there is therefore a function such thatThe separating functional cannot have zero dual norm, so rescale it to make . Because is closed, convex, and symmetric, the finite-dimensional Bipolar theorem for a dual pair says that the unit ball of is precisely . Thus and .
The support function of is obtained by choosing where and where . In terms of the positive part of a real-valued function , the separating inequality becomesSince , pointwise we have , and hence
Apply the supplied polynomial approximation of the positive part to . If , then its uniform approximation error and implyThe constant function and belong to the dual unit ball. By the assumed submultiplicativity, for every . Dual seminorm therefore givesThe stated coefficient bound, with in chosen larger than the absolute constant in that bound, makes this last quantity at most . Together with the polynomial-approximation error, this contradicts . The required consequently exists. This proves the dense model theorem for a multiplicative test family.
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