Past exam of the functional analysis I course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 d i Solution 2026-10-25
Use , restricted to and regarded as a linear subspace of . The density of continuous functions in Lp on an interval says that is a dense subspace whenever .
For , the supremum norm givesIn particular , with zero limit. Part (c), together with being a dense subspace, implies . To identify the limit throughout , for and useFirst choose in the dense subspace to make the first term arbitrarily small, then let . This is convergence on a dense subspace under a uniform operator bound, and provesThe zero linear functional belongs to the continuous dual space .