Paper 1, Section II, H

Linear Analysis
Part II, 2009

(a) State and prove the Baire category theorem.

(b) Let XX be a normed space. Show that every proper linear subspace VXV \subset X has empty interior.

(c) Let P\mathcal{P} be the vector space of all real polynomials in one variable. Using the Baire category theorem and the result from (b), prove that for any norm \|\cdot\| on P\mathcal{P}, the normed space (P,)(\mathcal{P},\|\cdot\|) is not a Banach space.