Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 6 1 iv Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
The real space is a Banach space in the uniform norm: a uniformly Cauchy sequence has a uniform pointwise limit by completeness of , and that uniform limit is continuous. Each functional from the preceding part is bounded, but their norms are unbounded.
For integers , defineEach is closed, being an intersection of inverse images of closed intervals under continuous functionals. It has empty interior. Otherwise some ball would be contained in it. For every of norm at most one, both and would belong to that ball, soTaking the supremum over would give for all , contradicting the preceding part.
Thus the are nowhere dense. The Baire category theorem says their union cannot cover . A function outside that union satisfiesso its Fourier series diverges at zero. In fact these functions form a dense subset of . This proves the relevant Uniform boundedness principle argument directly and establishes generic unbounded Fourier sums at a fixed point.