# Math Help - normed vector space

1. ## normed vector space

show that in the vector space $
\ell _1 = \left\{ {r_k \,\,:\,\sum {\left| {r_k } \right|} \,converges} \right\}
$

(i) $
\left\| {r_k } \right\| = \sum {r_k }
$
is a norm
(ii) $
P = \left\{ {\left\{ {x_k } \right\}\,:\,x_k \geqslant 0\,\forall k \in \mathbb{N}} \right\}
$
has en empty interior

(iii) $
B\left( {\vec 0,1} \right)
$
is not compact

please help im trying to learn this by myself and i would like help on how to do this problems

thanks!

2. Originally Posted by mms
show that in the vector space $
\ell _1 = \left\{ {r_k \,\,:\,\sum {\left| {r_k } \right|} \,converges} \right\}
$

(i) $
\left\| {r_k } \right\| = \sum {r_k }
$
is a norm
(ii) $
P = \left\{ {\left\{ {x_k } \right\}\,:\,x_k \geqslant 0\,\forall k \in \mathbb{N}} \right\}
$
has en empty interior

(iii) $
B\left( {\vec 0,1} \right)
$
is not compact

please help im trying to learn this by myself and i would like help on how to do this problems

thanks!
For (i) just remmeber that for all $n\in \mathbb{N}$ we have $\vert x_n + y_n \vert \leq \vert x_n\vert + \vert y_n \vert$ so adding we get $\sum_{i=1}^{n} \vert x_i+y_i \vert \leq \sum_{i=1}^{n} \vert x_i \vert + \vert y_i \vert \leq \sum_{i=1}^{\infty } \vert x_i \vert + \vert y_i \vert < \infty$

For (ii) take a sequence $y^k=(y_{n}^k) \in \ell _1$ such that $y_{n}^k = x_n$ if $n\neq k$ and $y_{n}^k= -\frac{1}{k}$ if $n=k$ then $\Vert x-y^k \Vert = \vert x_k + \frac{1}{k} \vert \rightarrow 0$ as $k\rightarrow \infty$ (since $x_n \rightarrow 0$ )

For (iii) what can you say about the sequence $x^k=(x_{n}^k)$ where $x_{n}^k=0$ if $n\neq k$ and $x_{n}^k=\frac{1}{2}$ if $n=k$ (Notice that $\Vert x^k - x^l \Vert = 1$ for all $k\neq l$)