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The metric completion of a normed space carries a unique compatible Banach-space structure
Statement
Let be a normed space. The published metric completion of the norm metric on admits a unique vector-space structure and norm whose induced metric is the published completion metric and such that the constant sequence embedding is a dense linear isometry. With this structure, is a Banach space.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A normed space , its published metric completion by Cauchy classes, and the constant-sequence embedding .
The published metric completion exists, is complete, and is dense in it (Every metric space has a completion, constructed as the equivalence classes of its Cauchy sequences).
Termwise addition, scalar multiplication, and the limiting norm on Cauchy classes are well defined (The Cauchy-class operations of a normed-space completion are well defined).
A Banach space is a normed space complete for its norm metric, and a completion of a normed space is a Banach space with dense linear isometry from the original space (Banach space, Completion of a normed space).
Addition and scalar multiplication are continuous in every normed space (Vector addition and scalar multiplication are continuous in a normed space).
Proof
By [L2], the Cauchy classes carry termwise addition and scalar multiplication, and each class has a well-defined norm .
On constant sequences these operations agree with those of , and by definition, so is a linear isometry.
For classes and , the distance of the published metric completion is , while the new difference class is ; therefore the completion metric is exactly the metric induced by the norm from step 1.1.
Because the underlying metric space is complete by [L1], step 2.2 makes complete for its new norm metric. So is Banach and is a completion of in the sense of [L3].
Suppose a second Banach-space structure on the same underlying set induces the published completion metric and also makes a dense linear isometry. Its addition and scalar multiplication are continuous by [L4], and they agree with the operations of step 1.1 on the dense subset and on ; therefore they agree everywhere.
The norm is then forced as well, because in any compatible normed structure equals the metric distance from to . So the compatible Banach-space structure is unique.
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Sources
- Theo Buhler and Dietmar A. Salamon, Functional Analysis (standard reference, not scraped)
- Gerald Teschl, Topics in Real and Functional Analysis (standard reference, not scraped)