Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-106/2/c/ii/solution

The set is weak-star compact by the Banach-Alaoglu theorem and weak-star metrizable by part a. Choose a decreasing countable neighbourhood base at . Since , the set cannot lie inside the closed norm ball of radius about , for then its diameter would be at most . Choose
The neighbourhood-base property gives .
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