Continuity and discontinuity of seminorms on infinite-dimensional vector spaces
Vector spaces, linear dependence, rank, lineability (15A03) Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Normed linear spaces and Banach spaces; Banach lattices (46B99) Norms (inequalities, more than one norm, etc.) of linear operators (47A30) Several topologies on one set (change of topology, comparison of topologies, lattices of topologies) (54A10) Continuous maps (54C05)
Let \(X\) be a vector space over a field \(\mathbb{F}\) (either \(\mathbb{R}\) or \(\mathbb{C}\)). If \(X\) is finite-dimensional, then all norms on \(X\) are equivalent and hence induce a unique norm topology on \(X\). If \(X\) is infinite-dimensional, then not all norms on \(X\) are equivalent and consequently the induced norm topology is not unique. The authors prove that, if \(X\) is infinite-dimensional and if \(S\ne 0\) is a seminorm on \(X\), then there exists a norm on \(X\) with respect to which \(S\) is ubiquitously continuous and also there exists a norm on \(X\) with respect to which \(S\) is ubiquitously discontinuous. As a corollary, the authors deduce that \(S\) is continuous with respect to every norm on \(X\) if and only if \(X\) is finite-dimensional.
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