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Sokal's gliding-hump proof of uniform boundedness
Statement
Assume and DC. If is Banach, is normed, and a family of bounded linear maps is pointwise bounded, then .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The stated choice principles, , and pointwise boundedness.
Proof
Suppose the norms are unbounded. Countable choice selects with for . Set .
Recursively, apply A nonzero bounded linear operator is large on one of two nearby points with centre and radius to choose with and . DC licenses these dependent choices.
The sequence is Cauchy, since its tails are bounded by a tail of ; completeness gives . Moreover .
Hence which contradicts pointwise boundedness at .
Depends on
- A nonzero bounded linear operator is large on one of two nearby points
- Banach space
- The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- The axiom of dependent choice: a relation in which every element is related to something admits an $\mathbb{N}$-indexed chain
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Sources
- Sokal, A Really Simple Elementary Proof of the Uniform Boundedness Theorem, pp. 1--3 (standard reference, not scraped)