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Re: norm of a linear operator and dual

Subject: Re: norm of a linear operator and dual
From: The World Wide Wade
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:15:50 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.math
In article 
<20051102.1146339208262.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Cathy <cathy218@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, all.
> I am doing a problem and have some trouble with it. Any idea is greatly 
> appreciated.
> T is a linear operator from normed linear space X to a norm linear space Y.
> I need to prove 
> ||T|| = Sup{<Tx,y*>: ||x||<=1,||y*||<=1,x in X, y* in Y*}
> 
> It is easy to get ||T||>= Sup<Tx,y*>. But the other direction of the 
> inequality troubles me.

HInts: 1. There exists x with ||x|| <= 1 such that Tx is near 
||T||. 2. Given y in Y, there exists f in Y* such that ||f|| = 1 
and f(y) = ||y|| (consequence of Hahn-Banach).

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