A2.3 B2.2

Functional Analysis
Part II, 2003

(i) Define the dual of a normed vector space (E,)(E,\|\cdot\|). Show that the dual is always a complete normed space.

Prove that the vector space 1\ell_{1}, consisting of those real sequences (xn)n=1\left(x_{n}\right)_{n=1}^{\infty} for which the norm

(xn)1=n=1xn\left\|\left(x_{n}\right)\right\|_{1}=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\left|x_{n}\right|

is finite, has the vector space \ell_{\infty} of all bounded sequences as its dual.

(ii) State the Stone-Weierstrass approximation theorem.

Let KK be a compact subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}. Show that every fCR(K)f \in C_{\mathbb{R}}(K) can be uniformly approximated by a sequence of polynomials in nn variables.

Let ff be a continuous function on [0,1]×[0,1][0,1] \times[0,1]. Deduce that

01(01f(x,y)dx)dy=01(01f(x,y)dy)dx\int_{0}^{1}\left(\int_{0}^{1} f(x, y) d x\right) d y=\int_{0}^{1}\left(\int_{0}^{1} f(x, y) d y\right) d x