陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「245B, Notes 6: Duality and the Hahn-Banach theorem」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

When studying a mathematical space X (e.g. a vector space, a topological space, a manifold, a group, an algebraic variety etc.), there are two fundamentally basic ways to try to understand the space:

(There are also more sophisticated ways to study an object via its maps, e.g. by studying extensions, joinings, splittings, universal lifts, etc. The general study of objects via the maps between them is formalised abstractly in modern mathematics as category theory , and is also closely related to homological algebra .)

已知结果和反例

A remarkable phenomenon in many areas of mathematics is that of (contravariant) duality : that the maps into and out of one type of mathematical object X can be naturally associated to the maps out of and into a dual object (note the reversal of arrows here!). In some cases, the dual object looks quite different from the original object X. (For instance, in Stone duality , discussed in Notes 4 , X would be a Boolean algebra (or some other partially ordered set) and would be a

In these notes we discuss a third important case of duality, namely duality of normed vector spaces , which is of an intermediate nature to the previous two examples: the dual of a normed vector space turns out to be another normed vector space, but generally one which is not equivalent to X itself (except in the important special case when X is a Hilbert space, as mentioned above). On the other hand, the double dual turns out to be closely related to X, and in several (but n

证明或构造的主线

A fundamental tool in understanding duality of normed vector spaces will be the Hahn-Banach theorem , which is an indispensable tool for exploring the dual of a vector space. (Indeed, without this theorem, it is not clear at all that the dual of a non-trivial normed vector space is non-trivial!) Thus, we shall study this theorem in detail in these notes concurrently with our discussion of duality.

In the category of normed vector spaces, the natural notion of a “map” (or morphism) between two such spaces is that of a continuous linear transformation between two normed vector spaces X, Y. By Lemma 1 from Notes 3 , any such linear transformation is bounded, in the sense that there exists a constant C such that for all . The least such constant C is known as the operator norm of T, and is denoted or simply .

阅读时建议盯住的点

Two normed vector spaces are equivalent if there is an invertible continuous linear transformation from X to Y, thus T is bijective and there exist constants such that for all . If one can take C=c=1, then T is an isometry , and X and Y are called isomorphic . When one has two norms on the same vector space X, we say that the norms are equivalent if the identity from to is an invertible continuous transformation, i.e. that there exist constants such that for all .

Exercise 1. Show that all linear transformations from a finite-dimensional space to a normed vector space are continuous. Conclude that all norms on a finite-dimensional space are equivalent.

值得单独记下的条目

• Show that every normed vector space X has at least one completion , and that any two completions are isomorphic in the sense that there exists an isomorphism from to which is the identity on X.
• Show that the dual spaces and are isomorphic to each other.
• Show that the dual space is isomorphic to .
• Show that the completion of is isomorphic to , the space of sequences on that go to zero at infinity (again with the uniform norm); thus, by Exercise 4, the dual space of is isomorphic to also.
• On the other hand, show that the dual of is isomorphic to , a space which is strictly larger than or . Thus we see that the double dual of a Banach space can be strictly larger than the space itself.
• Show that is a closed subspace of , and that ; (Compare with Exercise 13 from Notes 5 .) In other words, .
• Show that is trivial if and only if Y is dense, and if and only if Y is trivial.
• Show that is isomorphic to the dual of the quotient space (which has the norm ).

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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