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Solution Set 1: To Some Problems Given For TMA4230 Functional Analysis

This document contains solutions to problems from a functional analysis course. It solves problems showing that a specific functional is sublinear, that the zero functional satisfies certain properties, and that a functional satisfying certain conditions must be complex linear rather than just real linear. It also uses the Hahn-Banach theorem to show the existence of a linear functional with specific properties and to derive a contradiction showing that two vectors must be different.

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Solution Set 1: To Some Problems Given For TMA4230 Functional Analysis

This document contains solutions to problems from a functional analysis course. It solves problems showing that a specific functional is sublinear, that the zero functional satisfies certain properties, and that a functional satisfying certain conditions must be complex linear rather than just real linear. It also uses the Hahn-Banach theorem to show the existence of a linear functional with specific properties and to derive a contradiction showing that two vectors must be different.

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Solution set 1

to some problems given for TMA4230 Functional analysis


2005–02–03

Problem 4.2.3. The task is to show that p(x) = limn→∞ xn is a sublinear functional on the real version of
`∞ . Remember the definition limn→∞ xn = limn→∞ supk≥n xk .
First, assuming α ≥ 0 we find
p(αx) = lim αxn = lim sup αxk = lim α sup xk = α lim sup xk = α lim αxn = αp(x)
n→∞ n→∞ k≥n n→∞ k≥n n→∞ k≥n n→∞

Second, we find
 
p(x + y) = lim α(xn + yn ) = lim sup(xk + yk ) ≤ lim sup xk + sup yk
n→∞ n→∞ k≥n n→∞ k≥n k≥n

= lim sup xk + lim sup yk = lim xk + lim yk = p(x) + p(y).


n→∞ k≥n n→∞ k≥n n→∞ n→∞


Problem 4.2.4. If p is sublinear then p(0) = p(0 · 0) = 0p(0) = 0.1 Next, p(0) = p x + (−x) ≤ p(x) + p(−x).
Substituting p(0) = 0 and subtractin p(x) we get −p(x) ≤ p(−x).

Problem 4.2.5. Let x, y ∈ M . I.e., p(x) ≤ γ and p(y) ≤ γ. Assume 0 ≤ α ≤ 1. Then


  
p αx + (1 − α)y ≤ p αx + p (1 − α)y = αp(x) + (1 − α)p(y) ≤ αγ + (1 − α)γ = γ,
so that αx + (1 − α)y ∈ M . The requirement γ > 0 in the problem is in fact not needed.

Problem 4.2.10. To show −p(−x) ≤ f˜(x) ≤ p(x) where f˜ is linear and p is sublinear, it is enough to show
f˜(x) ≤ p(x) for all x. For then we must also have f (−x) ≤ p(−x), which after multiplication with −1 becomes
f (x) ≥ −p(−x).
To obtain the required f˜, then, it is enough to start with the zero functional f (0) = 0 on the trivial subspace
{0}. It obviously satisfies f (x) ≤ p(x) for x ∈ {0}, so by the Hahn–Banach theorem it has an extension f˜
satisfying f˜(x) ≤ p(x) for all x.
Remark. When applied to the example of problem 4.2.3, this shows the existence of a linear functional f˜ on
`∞ so that
lim xn ≤ f˜(x) ≤ lim xn (x ∈ `∞ ).
x→∞ x→∞

Such a linear functional is impossible to describe explicitly. However, if you are given a free ultrafilter U on
the natural numbers (another object with no explicit description), then one can construct a linear functional
f˜ satisfying the above inequalities by
f˜(x) = lim xn (x ∈ `∞ ).
n→U

If this remark makes no sense to you right now, don’t worry about it. It will make sense later.

Problem 4.3.3. (We drop the tilde on f˜.) We are given a real linear functional f on a complex vector space
X, satisfying f (ix) = if (x) for every x ∈ X. The task is to show that f is in fact complex linear.
In other words, we must show that f (γx) = γf (x) for complex γ. Write γ = α + iβ with α and β real.
Using the real linearity of f together with the given identity f (ix) = if (x) we find
f (γx) = f (αx + iβx) = f (αx) + f (iβx) = f (αx) + if (βx) = αf (x) + iβf (x) = γf (x).

Problem 4.3.11. Assume, on the contrary, that x 6= y. Create a linear functional f on the one-dimensional
space spanned by x − y so that f (x − y) = 1. Then f is bounded.2 Thus by Hahn–Banach there is a bounded
extension f˜ on X. Since f˜(x − y) = f (x − y) = 1, f˜(x) 6= f˜(y), which contradicts the assumption that no
bounded linear functional can tell the difference between x and y.
1 Watch out: Some zeros in that calculation signify the scalar 0, whereas others stand for the zero vector.
2 Any linear functional on a finite-dimensional space is bounded. But of course, we can easily compute kf k = 1/kx − yk.

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