A2.3 B2.2

Functional Analysis
Part II, 2002

(i) State and prove the parallelogram law for Hilbert spaces.

Suppose that KK is a closed linear subspace of a Hilbert space HH and that xHx \in H. Show that xx is orthogonal to KK if and only if 0 is the nearest point to xx in KK.

(ii) Suppose that HH is a Hilbert space and that ϕ\phi is a continuous linear functional on HH with ϕ=1\|\phi\|=1. Show that there is a sequence (hn)\left(h_{n}\right) of unit vectors in HH with ϕ(hn)\phi\left(h_{n}\right) real and ϕ(hn)>11/n\phi\left(h_{n}\right)>1-1 / n.

Show that hnh_{n} converges to a unit vector hh, and that ϕ(h)=1\phi(h)=1.

Show that hh is orthogonal to NN, the null space of ϕ\phi, and also that H=Nspan(h)H=N \oplus \operatorname{span}(h).

Show that ϕ(k)=k,h\phi(k)=\langle k, h\rangle, for all kHk \in H.