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Here “subspace” is understood to mean a closed closed linear subspace. Closedness matters: the finitely supported sequences $c_{00}$ are an infinite-dimensional algebraic subspace of ${\ell }^p$, but contain no infinite-dimensional complete subspace. Indeed, any such subspace would be the countable union of its intersections with the finite-dimensional coordinate spaces, contrary to the Baire category theorem. We prove the assertion with the intended closedness convention, for $1\le p<\infty$.

Write $E={\ell }^p$, the l-p sequence space. Choose positive numbers ${\delta }_n$ with ${\sum }_{n}2{\delta }_n<1$. Starting with $m_0=0$, choose $x_n\in X$ with $\Vert x_n{\Vert }_p=1$ and its first $m_{n-1}$ coordinates zero. This is possible because the kernel of finitely many coordinate linear functionals on an infinite-dimensional vector space is still infinite-dimensional. Choose $m_n>m_{n-1}$ so that the part of $x_n$ after coordinate $m_n$ has norm below ${\delta }_n$. Let $v_n$ be its restriction to $I_n=(m_{n-1},m_n]$, and put $u_n=v_n/\Vert v_n{\Vert }_p$. The triangle inequality givesThe vectors $u_n$ form a normalized block basic sequence. Their supports are disjoint, soConsequently $U=\overline{\mathrm{span}}\{u_n\}$ is isometric to the l-p sequence space.

For each block choose a norm-one linear functional ${\varphi }_n$ supported on $I_n$ with ${\varphi }_n(u_n)=1$. The Hahn-Banach theorem supplies such a functional, including when $p=1$. DefineThe series converges in the l-p sequence space, sinceAlso $Q{u}_n=u_n$, so $Q$ is a bounded projection onto $U$. Now define the bounded linear operatorThis series converges in operator norm and $\Vert A-I\Vert \le {\sum }_{n}2{\delta }_n<1$. The Neumann series therefore makes $A$ invertible. Disjoint support gives $A{u}_n=x_n$. Thus $Y=AU=\overline{\mathrm{span}}\{x_n\}$ lies in the closed subspace $X$, is isomorphic to the l-p sequence space, and is the range of the bounded projection $AQ{A}^{-1}$ on the whole space $E$. This proves the required copy of ${\ell }^p$ is complemented in the ambient ${\ell }^p$, not just in $X$.

Now let $Z$ be an infinite-dimensional complemented subspace of $E$. The construction supplies $Y\subset Z$ with $Y\cong E$ and a bounded projection $R:E\to Y$. Its restriction to $Z$ gives the topological direct sumIf $P:E\to Z$ is a bounded projection, then $(I-R)P$ is a bounded projection onto $W$: its range lies in $W$, and it fixes every element of $W$. Hence $W$ is a complemented subspace of $E$, so $E\cong W\oplus V$ for some closed $V$.

We give the absorption argument in the Pełczyński decomposition method explicitly. Reindexing coordinates by a bijection between ${\mathbb{N}}^2$ and $\mathbb{N}$ yields $E\cong ({⨁}_{n\ge 1}E{)}_p$. Applying the fixed Banach space isomorphism $E\cong W\oplus V$ in every coordinate givesThe extra $W$ is absorbed by shifting the countably many $W$ summands. The maps are bounded with bounded inverses because the same two-space decomposition is used uniformly in each summand; we may equip each finite direct sum with its equivalent $p$-sum norm. Since $Z\cong E\oplus W$, $Z\cong {\ell }^p$.