Banach space

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Originally Posted by bigdoggy

How would I show that the vector space $\ell^1$ with the 2 norm $||\cdot||_2$ is not a Banach space?

$\ell ^1= ( (x_i)^\infty_{i=1} : \Sigma^\infty_{i=1}|x_i|< \infty)$

I would perhaps have to show that it doesn't converge in the appropriate norm..? I am not sure how..!

You need to show that the space is not complete in that norm. To see that, start by taking a sequence that is in $\ell^2$ but not in $\ell^1$ . For example, you could take the element $(x_i)$ with $x_i = 1/i$ . Then consider the sequence of elements $x^{(n)}$ in $\ell^1$ defined by $\textstyle x^{(n)}(i) = \begin{cases}1/i&\text{if }i\leqslant n,\\ 0&\text{if }i>n.\end{cases}$

Then $(x^{(n)})$ is Cauchy for the 2-norm, but it does not have a 2-norm limit in the space $\ell^1$ (because it is trying to converge to an element that isn't in $\ell^1$ ).