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 V⊂XV \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.

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