4.II.13F
Part IB, 2008
Explain what it means for two norms on a real vector space to be Lipschitz equivalent. Show that if two norms are Lipschitz equivalent, then one is complete if and only if the other is.
Let be an arbitrary norm on the finite-dimensional space , and let denote the standard (Euclidean) norm. Show that for every with , we have
where is the standard basis for , and deduce that the function is continuous with respect to . Hence show that there exists a constant such that for all with , and deduce that and are Lipschitz equivalent.
[You may assume the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem.]