Paper 1, Section II, G

Linear Analysis
Part II, 2014

Let XX and YY be normed spaces. What is an isomorphism between XX and YY ? Show that a bounded linear map T:XYT: X \rightarrow Y is an isomorphism if and only if TT is surjective and there is a constant c>0c>0 such that Txcx\|T x\| \geqslant c\|x\| for all xXx \in X. Show that if there is an isomorphism T:XYT: X \rightarrow Y and XX is complete, then YY is complete.

Show that two normed spaces of the same finite dimension are isomorphic. [You may assume without proof that any two norms on a finite-dimensional space are equivalent.] Briefly explain why this implies that every finite-dimensional space is complete, and every closed and bounded subset of a finite-dimensional space is compact.

Let ZZ and FF be subspaces of a normed space XX with ZF={0}Z \cap F=\{0\}. Assume that ZZ is closed in XX and FF is finite-dimensional. Prove that Z+FZ+F is closed in XX. [Hint: First show that the function xd(x,Z)=inf{xz:zZ}x \mapsto d(x, Z)=\inf \{\|x-z\|: z \in Z\} restricted to the unit sphere of F achieves its minimum.]