Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 2 3F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
Both maxima exist by continuity on the compact set . Their sum is nonnegative and vanishes only for . The identities and the triangle inequality follow by applying the corresponding supremum norm facts to and . This proves that is a norm.
For , . Hence the first unit ball has image contained in : derivative evaluation is a bounded linear functional for this norm.
For the supremum norm alone, take . These smooth functions satisfy , but . Thus the second image is unbounded. The distinction is the unboundedness of derivative evaluation in the supremum norm, not a failure of differentiability of the individual functions.