Paper 1, Section II, H
Part II, 2010
a) State and prove the Banach-Steinhaus Theorem.
[You may use the Baire Category Theorem without proving it.]
b) Let be a (complex) normed space and . Prove that if is a bounded set in for every linear functional then there exists such that for all
[You may use here the following consequence of the Hahn-Banach Theorem without proving it: for a given , there exists with and .]
c) Conclude that if two norms and on a (complex) vector space are not equivalent, there exists a linear functional which is continuous with respect to one of the two norms, and discontinuous with respect to the other.