Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 6 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Put . The hypothesis scales to every residual : if , apply it to and multiply the resulting vector by to obtain an approximate preimage of norm at most with error at most . For , choose zero.
Start with . Inductively choose so thatThen and . Completeness of the Banach space gives . Boundedness of givesThusThis geometric correction for approximate surjectivity uses no completeness assumption on : every infinite sum was formed in .
To establish the completeness forced by uniformly bounded lifting, let be a Cauchy sequence in . Choose a subsequence with . Lift to and each difference to with and . The series converges in , and its image under is the limit of the subsequence. The original Cauchy sequence has that same limit, by the triangle inequality. Hence is complete.
The open mapping theorem states that a bounded surjective linear map between Banach spaces is open. In particular, a bounded linear bijection has a bounded inverse. This is the theorem the question permits us to state without proof.
For the closed graph theorem, suppose is everywhere-defined and linear with closed graph . The product norm makes a Banach space, so its closed subspace is complete. Projection , , is a bounded linear bijection. Its inverse is bounded by the open mapping theorem; thereforeIt follows that is bounded, proving the closed graph theorem rather than assuming it.
For the final clause, is the separating space of a linear map. It contains zero, and if , and , , then and its image tends to . Thus is a vector subspace. If and , choose one vector from a witnessing sequence for withThen and , so : it is closed. If is continuous, every defining image limit is zero, hence . Conversely, if and , , then and , so . The graph is sequentially closed and therefore closed in the normed, metrizable product. The proved closed graph theorem now gives continuity. ConsequentlyThe original PDF places in ; the TeX's first reference to a subset of is a transcription error.