Question #164917

(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* . 


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2021-02-24T06:10:11-0500

i) Proving that aBanach space is separable if its dual is separable:

Let {fn}n=1\{f_n\}_{n=1}^{\infin} be a dense subset of the unit ball BB in XX^*. For each nNn\isin N, pick xnXx_n\isin X such that fn(xn)>12f_n(x_n)>\frac{1}{2} . Let Y=span{xn}Y=\overline{span\{x_n\}} and observe that YY is separable, since finite rational combinations of {xn}\{x_n\} are dense in YY. It is now sufficient to show that X=YX=Y. We proceed by contradiction. Suppose that XYX\neq Y. Then there is an fXf\isin X^*, with f=1||f||=1 such that f(x)=0f(x)=0 for all xYx\isin Y . Now choose nn such that fnf<14||f_n-f||<\frac{1}{4}. Then

f(xn)=fn(xn)fn(xn)+f(xn)fn(xn)fn(xn)f(xn)|f(x_n)|=|f_n(x_n)-f_n(x_n)+f(x_n)|\geq |f_n(x_n)|-|f_n(x_n)-f(x_n)|\geq

fn(xn)fnfxn)>1214=14\geq |f_n(x_n)|-||f_n-f||\cdot ||x_n)||>\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{4}=\frac{1}{4}


ii) Space LpL^p


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