Paper 1, Section II, G
Part II, 2011
State a version of the Stone-Weierstrass Theorem for real-valued functions on a compact metric space.
Suppose that is a continuous function. Show that may be uniformly approximated by functions of the form with continuous.
Let be Banach spaces and suppose that is a bounded linear operator. What does it mean to say that is finite-rank? What does it mean to say that is compact? Give an example of a bounded linear operator from to itself which is not compact.
Suppose that is a sequence of finite-rank operators and that in the operator norm. Briefly explain why the are compact. Show that is compact.
Hence, show that the integral operator defined by
is compact.