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Re: countable set of closed subspaces in separable Hilbert space
question
Posted:
Nov 12, 2012 2:52 AM
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Daniel J. Greenhoe wrote:
> On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:21:30 AM UTC+8, William Elliot wrote:
> > How for example, are you defining
> > ||X - X_n|| for sets X and X_n?
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> William, I think you bring up a very good point. My "definition" of the
> limit of a sequence of subspaces is ill-defined. In fact, I don't even
> have a definition for X-X_n, and am not sure a good way to define the
> norm ||Y|| of a subspace Y.
In general, if A is a set and f a function f(A)
is defined as the set { f(A) | a in A }. Accordingly,
A + B = { a + b | a in A, b in B }
-A = { -a | a in A }
and perhaps, if ever used,
||A|| = { ||f|| : f in A }
would be a collection of numbers and as such
one can't write ||A|| < r without the special
definition A < r when for all a in A, a < r.
By special, I mean I use A <= r when for all a in A, a <= r;
a definition not used by others. I don't use A < r.
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