The most important sequence spaces in analysis are the spaces, consisting of the-power summable sequences, with the-norm. These are special cases of spaces for thecounting measure on the set of natural numbers. Other important classes of sequences likeconvergent sequences ornull sequences form sequence spaces, respectively denoted and, with thesup norm. Any sequence space can also be equipped with thetopology ofpointwise convergence, under which it becomes a special kind ofFréchet space calledFK-space.
Theorem[1]—Let be aFréchet space over.Then the following are equivalent:
admits no continuous norm (that is, any continuous seminorm on has a nontrivial null space).
contains a vector subspace TVS-isomorphic to.
contains a complemented vector subspace TVS-isomorphic to.
But the product topology is also unavoidable: does not admit astrictly coarser Hausdorff, locally convex topology.[1] For that reason, the study of sequences begins by finding a strictlinear subspace of interest, and endowing it with a topologydifferent from thesubspace topology.
For, is the subspace of consisting of all sequences satisfying
If, then the real-valued function on defined bydefines anorm on. In fact, is acomplete metric space with respect to this norm, and therefore is aBanach space.
If then is also aHilbert space when endowed with its canonicalinner product, called theEuclidean inner product, defined for all byThe canonical norm induced by this inner product is the usual-norm, meaning that for all.
If, then is defined to be the space of allbounded sequences endowed with the norm is also a Banach space.
If, then does not carry a norm, but rather ametric defined by
Aconvergent sequence is any sequence such that exists. The set of all convergent sequences is a vector subspace of called thespace of convergent sequences. Since every convergent sequence is bounded, is a linear subspace of. Moreover, this sequence space is a closed subspace of with respect to thesupremum norm, and so it is a Banach space with respect to this norm.
A sequence that converges to is called anull sequence and is said tovanish. The set of all sequences that converge to is a closed vector subspace of that when endowed with thesupremum norm becomes a Banach space that is denoted by and is called thespace of null sequences or thespace of vanishing sequences.
Thespace of eventually zero sequences,, is the subspace of consisting of all sequences which have only finitely many nonzero elements. This is not a closed subspace and therefore is not a Banach space with respect to the infinity norm. For example, the sequence where for the first entries (for) and is zero everywhere else (that is,) is aCauchy sequence but it does not converge to a sequence in
Convergence in has a natural description: if and is a sequence in then in if and only is eventually contained in a single image and under the natural topology of that image.
Often, each image is identified with the corresponding; explicitly, the elements and are identified. This is facilitated by the fact that the subspace topology on, thequotient topology from the map, and the Euclidean topology on all coincide. With this identification, is thedirect limit of the directed system where every inclusion adds trailing zeros: This shows is anLB-space.
The space of boundedseries, denote bybs, is the space of sequences for which
This space, when equipped with the norm
is a Banach space isometrically isomorphic to via thelinear mapping
The subspace consisting of all convergent series is a subspace that goes over to the space under this isomorphism.
The space or is defined to be the space of all infinite sequences with only a finite number of non-zero terms (sequences withfinite support). This set isdense in many sequence spaces.
Substituting two distinct unit vectors for and directly shows that the identity is not true unless.
Each is distinct, in that is a strictsubset of whenever; furthermore, is not linearlyisomorphic to when. In fact, by Pitt's theorem (Pitt 1936), every bounded linear operator from to iscompact when. No such operator can be an isomorphism; and further, it cannot be an isomorphism on any infinite-dimensional subspace of, and is thus said to bestrictly singular.
If, then the(continuous) dual space of is isometrically isomorphic to, where is theHölder conjugate of:. The specific isomorphism associates to an element of the functionalfor in.Hölder's inequality implies that is a bounded linear functional on, and in factso that the operator norm satisfiesIn fact, taking to be the element of withgives, so that in factConversely, given a bounded linear functional on, the sequence defined by lies in. Thus the mapping gives an isometry
The mapobtained by composing with the inverse of itstranspose coincides with thecanonical injection of into itsdouble dual. As a consequence is areflexive space. Byabuse of notation, it is typical to identify with the dual of:. Then reflexivity is understood by the sequence of identifications.
The space is defined as the space of all sequences converging to zero, with norm identical to. It is a closed subspace of, hence a Banach space. Thedual of is; the dual of is. For the case of natural numbers index set, the and areseparable, with the sole exception of. The dual of is theba space.
The spaces and (for) have a canonical unconditionalSchauder basis, where is the sequence which is zero but for a in theth entry.
The spaces can beembedded into manyBanach spaces. The question of whether every infinite-dimensional Banach space contains an isomorph of some or of, was answered negatively byB. S. Tsirelson's construction ofTsirelson space in 1974. The dual statement, that every separable Banach space is linearly isometric to aquotient space of, was answered in the affirmative byBanach & Mazur (1933). That is, for every separable Banach space, there exists a quotient map, so that is isomorphic to. In general, is not complemented in, that is, there does not exist a subspace of such that. In fact, has uncountably many uncomplemented subspaces that are not isomorphic to one another (for example, take; since there are uncountably many such's, and since no is isomorphic to any other, there are thus uncountably many kerQ's).
Except for the trivial finite-dimensional case, an unusual feature of is that it is notpolynomially reflexive.
For, the spaces are increasing in, with the inclusion operator being continuous: for, one has. Indeed, the inequality is homogeneous in the, so it is sufficient to prove it under the assumption that. In this case, we need only show that for. But if, then for all, and then.
ℓ2 is isomorphic to all separable, infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces
A sequence of elements in converges in the space of complex sequences if and only if it converges weakly in this space.[3] If is a subset of this space, then the following are equivalent:[3]
is compact;
is weakly compact;
is bounded, closed, and equismall at infinity.
Here beingequismall at infinity means that for every, there exists a natural number such that for all.
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