Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 106 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The Hahn-Banach theorem for bounded linear functionals says that a bounded linear functional on any linear subspace of a normed vector space extends to the whole space with its norm unchanged. No closedness or completeness of the subspace is required. Question 1 uses real-valued , so its operator assertions are read over the real scalar field. The analogous complex statements use complex-valued indexed functions.
For , define on its one-dimensional span. This is a norm-one functional, so Hahn-Banach theorem supplies an extension withThe canonical embedding into the bidual is . It is linear and . The bounded linear functional just constructed gives the reverse inequality for nonzero , and the zero case is immediate. Thus and is injective.
For the coordinate functional representation of an operator into bounded indexed functions, let evaluate a coordinate and put . If is bounded and linear, then and . Conversely, if , the formula defines a bounded scalar function for each , is linear, and satisfies . Combining the two estimates givesFor an empty index set both spaces/families have norm bound zero; the supremum of the empty nonnegative family is taken as zero.
Choose and . The Hahn-Banach theorem makes , so this is a linear isometric embedding into bounded scalar functions on an index set.
If is nonzero and separable, choose a dense sequence in its unit sphere and supporting functionals with . For a unit vector and , some satisfies , whence . Thus is a countable norming family and is an isometry into the l-infinity sequence space. Completeness of is not needed.
If instead for a separable normed vector space , choose a dense sequence in . The evaluations lie in and continuity of gives . This again gives , even when is not separable. If , use zero coordinates throughout.
To prove 1-injectivity, take on a subspace of . Extend every coordinate to by Hahn-Banach theorem, keeping its norm. Their uniform bound defines , and the coordinate norm identity yieldsSelection of these extensions uses the usual choice convention for arbitrary index sets. This verifies the lambda-injective normed space definition with .
For the final retraction characterization of lambda-injectivity, suppose first that is lambda-injective and is a linear isometry. The inverse has norm one when ; extend it to with . Then , and is a bounded projection onto . For the zero space take .
Conversely, suppose every linear isometry out of has such a left inverse. Fix an isometry as above and a left inverse with . For any , extend to by 1-injectivity. Then extends , and . Therefore is lambda-injective exactly when every isometric embedding admits a bounded map satisfying
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 106 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The Mazur theorem states that the weak closure and norm closure of a convex set in a normed vector space coincide:Norm closure is contained in weak closure because the weak topology is coarser. Conversely, if , the Hahn-Banach separation theorem provides a continuous real linear functional strictly separating from that closed convex set. In a complex space this is the real part of a continuous complex linear functional. A weak neighborhood of then misses , so . This proves the equality. It also gives the usual Mazur lemma: if , then lies in the norm closure of the convex hull of each tail, so one can choose tail convex combinations with .
Now let be a weakly compact set in a normed space . Each is bounded on because it is weakly continuous. The family in , where is the canonical embedding into the bidual, is therefore pointwise bounded. The space is Banach even if is not. Apply the Uniform boundedness principle and use to obtainThis proves that a weakly compact set is norm bounded without assuming completeness of the original space.
For the real-valued dual and integral formulas that follow, take to be real, as in the PDF. In a complex space the norming formula uses real parts, and the integral identities use complex-valued functionals instead.
If the separable Banach space is nonzero, choose a norm-dense sequence in its unit sphere. By the Hahn-Banach theorem, choose with and . For any unit vector , arbitrarily close satisfyScaling gives the countable norming family identityFor use the constant sequence of zero functionals. If is norm-Borel measurable, every is measurable, so its countable supremum is measurable. Equivalently, this also follows directly from continuity of the norm.
For any , continuity makes measurable, andThus the assumed integrability of the norm implies scalar integrability, anddefines a bounded linear functional on . Use the granted weak-star continuity of . By the continuous dual of a weak-star topology, is evaluation at a vector of . Indeed, continuity gives finitely many and such that whenever for all . Scaling shows that vanishes on the common kernel of these evaluations. It therefore factors through their finite-dimensional coordinate map, so . The Hahn-Banach theorem makes this representing vector unique. HenceIn this separable setting the vector is the Bochner integral.
Return to a weakly compact set and its inclusion . For each fixed , the identity makes weakly Borel measurable. Norm balls are consequently weakly Borel measurable. Separability gives a countable base of such balls, so every norm-open set is weakly Borel measurable. This proves measurability of , and establishes the equality of the weak and norm Borel sigma-algebras in a separable Banach space.
Put . For every finite signed Borel measure on ,For positive measures this is the integral in the question. For signed measures, the correct integrability condition uses the variation measure; define the integral by taking the difference of the positive and negative integrals. The printed in this clause should be , the domain of the inclusion.
The Riesz-Markov-Kakutani representation theorem now defines the bounded linear mapFor each the restriction is in , andThe right side is weak-star continuous in . The defining property of the weak topology therefore proves that is weak-star-to-weak continuous, for arbitrary nets. For a Dirac measure, .
If , let be its regular probability measures. This is a weak-star closed subset of : its conditions are and for every nonnegative . It is compact by Banach-Alaoglu theorem. Thus is weakly compact and convex, and contains because it contains all . It is weakly closed, hence norm closed, so it contains . By Mazur theorem, is weakly closed. Therefore it is a closed subset of the weakly compact set , provingThe empty case is immediate. In fact : a barycenter of a measure on a Banach space outside would be strictly separated by a functional , contradicting .
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A Banach space is separable when it has a countable dense subset for its norm topology. It then has a countable base of norm balls and a countable norming family. Its continuous dual space need not be norm separable.
The weak topology and norm topology of a separable Banach space generate the same Borel sigma-algebra. A countable norming family makes every norm ball weakly Borel measurable, and separability makes every norm-open set a countable union of such balls. The reverse inclusion follows because the weak topology is coarser.