1.II.15G

Analysis II
Part IB, 2004

State the axioms for a norm on a vector space. Show that the usual Euclidean norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n},

x=(x12+x22++xn2)1/2\|x\|=\left(x_{1}^{2}+x_{2}^{2}+\ldots+x_{n}^{2}\right)^{1 / 2}

satisfies these axioms.

Let UU be any bounded convex open subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} that contains 0 and such that if xUx \in U then xU-x \in U. Show that there is a norm on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, satisfying the axioms, for which UU is the set of points in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} of norm less than 1 .