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Separation Theorems and Supporting Hyperplanes
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Spring 2025 • Question 1
Show that for the sphere \(S(0, 1)\) in a real normed space \(X\) and any point \(x_0 \in S(0, 1)\) there is a hyperplane \(H_0 \ni x_0\) such that the closed ball \(\widetilde {B}(0, 1)\) lies entirely in one of the two closed half spaces determined by \(H_0\).
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Spring 2022 • Question 5
Let \(X\) be a normed vector space. Let \(x_0 \in X\) and consider the closed ball \(\widetilde {B}(0,\|x_0\|)\). Use the Hahn-Banach theorem to show that there exists \(f \in X'\) such that \(f(x_0) = 1\) and for any \(x \in \widetilde {B}(0,\|x_0\|)\) we have \(f(x) \le 1\). Do not use Hahn-Banach for convex sets or the separating hyperplane theorem.