In the mathematical field of functional analysis, Banach spaces are among the most important objects of study. In other areas of mathematical analysis, most spaces which arise in practice turn out to be Banach spaces as well.

Classical Banach spaces edit

According to Diestel (1984, Chapter VII), the classical Banach spaces are those defined by Dunford & Schwartz (1958), which is the source for the following table.

Glossary of symbols for the table below:

  •   denotes the field of real numbers   or complex numbers  
  •   is a compact Hausdorff space.
  •   are real numbers with   that are Hölder conjugates, meaning that they satisfy   and thus also  
  •   is a  -algebra of sets.
  •   is an algebra of sets (for spaces only requiring finite additivity, such as the ba space).
  •   is a measure with variation   A positive measure is a real-valued positive set function defined on a  -algebra which is countably additive.
Classical Banach spaces
Dual space Reflexive weakly sequentially complete Norm Notes
    Yes Yes     Euclidean space
    Yes Yes    
    Yes Yes    
    Yes Yes    
    No Yes    
    No No    
    No No    
    No No     Isomorphic but not isometric to  
    No Yes     Isometrically isomorphic to  
    No Yes     Isometrically isomorphic to  
    No No     Isometrically isomorphic to  
    No No     Isometrically isomorphic to  
    No No    
    No No    
  ? No Yes    
  ? No Yes     A closed subspace of  
  ? No Yes     A closed subspace of  
    Yes Yes    
    No Yes     The dual is   if   is  -finite.
  ? No Yes       is the total variation of  
  ? No Yes       consists of   functions such that  
    No Yes     Isomorphic to the Sobolev space  
    No No     Isomorphic to   essentially by Taylor's theorem.

Banach spaces in other areas of analysis edit

Banach spaces serving as counterexamples edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ W.T. Gowers, "A solution to the Schroeder–Bernstein problem for Banach spaces", Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 28 (1996) pp. 297–304.

References edit

  • Diestel, Joseph (1984), Sequences and series in Banach spaces, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-90859-5.
  • Dunford, N.; Schwartz, J.T. (1958), Linear operators, Part I, Wiley-Interscience.