Section 7.1

Banach-Steinhaus Theorem

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Problem 7.1

(Part of the proof of Theorem 7.1). Let XX be a Banach space, YY a normed space, and {Tn}n=1∞⊂B(X,Y)\left\{ T_{n}\right\}_{n = 1}^{\infty } \subset \mathcal{B}(X, Y), with ∥Tn∥→∞\left\| T_{n}\right\| \rightarrow \infty as n→∞n \rightarrow \infty. Prove that for any λ>0\lambda > 0 the set

Mλ={x∈X:∥Tnx∥<λ for all n∈N} M_{\lambda } = \left\{ x \in X:\left\| T_{n} x\right\| < \lambda \text{ for all } n \in \mathbb {N}\right\}

is nowhere dense in XX.

Theorem 7.1 (S. Banach, H. Steinhaus, 1927): let XX be a Banach space, YY a normed space, and M⊂B(X,Y)\mathcal{M} \subset \mathcal{B}(X, Y) a family of operators. If for every x∈Xx \in X sup⁡A∈M∥Ax∥⩽C(x)\sup_{A \in \mathcal{M}}\left\| A x\right\| \leqslant C(x), where the constant C(x)C(x) depends only on the vector xx, then there exists a constant C1>0C_{1} > 0 such that sup⁡A∈M∥A∥⩽C1\sup_{A \in \mathcal{M}}\left\| A\right\| \leqslant C_{1}, i.e. the set M\mathcal{M} is bounded in the space B(X,Y)\mathcal{B}(X, Y).

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Problem 7.2

Show that the completeness of the space XX in the statement of Theorem 7.1 is essential.

Theorem 7.1 (S. Banach, H. Steinhaus, 1927): let XX be a Banach space, YY a normed space, and M⊂B(X,Y)\mathcal{M} \subset \mathcal{B}(X, Y) a family of operators. If for every x∈Xx \in X sup⁡A∈M∥Ax∥⩽C(x)\sup_{A \in \mathcal{M}}\left\| A x\right\| \leqslant C(x), where the constant C(x)C(x) depends only on the vector xx, then there exists a constant C1>0C_{1} > 0 such that sup⁡A∈M∥A∥⩽C1\sup_{A \in \mathcal{M}}\left\| A\right\| \leqslant C_{1}, i.e. the set M\mathcal{M} is bounded in the space B(X,Y)\mathcal{B}(X, Y).

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Problem 7.3

Let fn∈l∞f_{n} \in l_{\infty } be a sequence of functionals on the space l1,fn(x)=nxn,n=1,2,…l_{1}, f_{n}(x) = n x_{n}, n = 1,2, \ldots This family of functionals is not bounded in the space l∞=(l1)∗l_{\infty } = \left(l_{1}\right)^{*}, and hence, by the Banach-Steinhaus theorem, there is a vector x∈l1x \in l_{1} such that sup⁡∣fn(x)∣=∞\sup \left|f_{n}(x)\right| = \infty. Find such a vector xx.

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Problem 7.4

(E. Hellinger, O. Toeplitz, 1910). Let A:H→HA: H \rightarrow H be a linear operator in a Hilbert space HH. Prove that if for all x,y∈Hx, y \in H the equality (Ax,y)=(x,Ay)(A x, y) = (x, A y) holds, then the operator AA is bounded. 1

Definition 8.3: An operator A∈B(H)A \in \mathcal{B}(H) is called self-adjoint if A=A∗A = A^{*}.

Footnotes

  1. Operators satisfying such a relation are called self-adjoint (see Definition 8.3 below). ↩

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Problem 7.5

Let XX and YY be Banach spaces. Prove that if a bilinear form B(x,y)B(x, y), defined on X×YX \times Y, is continuous separately in each argument, then it is continuous jointly in both arguments.

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Problem 7.6

Define the operator

(Snx)(t)=∑k=−nnckeikt=12π∫−ππx(s)∑k=−nneik(t−s)ds \left(S_{n} x\right)(t) = \sum _{k = -n}^{n} c_{k} e^{i k t} = \frac{1}{2 \pi } \int _{-\pi }^{\pi } x(s) \sum _{k = -n}^{n} e^{i k(t-s)} d s

in the space C[−π,π]C[-\pi , \pi ]. Prove that ∥Sn∥→∞\left\| S_{n}\right\| \rightarrow \infty. Deduce from this that there exists a continuous function x∈C[−π,π]x \in C[-\pi , \pi ] whose trigonometric Fourier series diverges at the point t=0t = 0.

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