(i) Let V be a Banach space. Prove that if V* separable then V is not separable.
(ii) Give an example of separable Banach space V which has a non-separable dual space V* .
i) Proving that aBanach space is separable if its dual is separable:
Let be a dense subset of the unit ball in . For each , pick such that . Let and observe that is separable, since finite rational combinations of are dense in . It is now sufficient to show that . We proceed by contradiction. Suppose that . Then there is an , with such that for all . Now choose such that . Then
ii) Space
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