The Banach-Steinhaus theorem: Uniform Boundedness Principle #
Herein we prove the Banach-Steinhaus theorem for normed spaces: any collection of bounded linear maps from a Banach space into a normed space which is pointwise bounded is uniformly bounded.
Note that we prove the more general version about barrelled spaces in
Analysis.LocallyConvex.Barrelled
, and the usual version below is indeed deduced from the
more general setup.
This is the standard Banach-Steinhaus theorem, or Uniform Boundedness Principle. If a family of continuous linear maps from a Banach space into a normed space is pointwise bounded, then the norms of these linear maps are uniformly bounded.
See also WithSeminorms.banach_steinhaus
for the general statement in barrelled spaces.
This version of Banach-Steinhaus is stated in terms of suprema of โโยทโโ : โโฅ0โ
for convenience.
Given a sequence of continuous linear maps which converges pointwise and for which the domain is complete, the Banach-Steinhaus theorem is used to guarantee that the limit map is a continuous linear map as well.
Equations
- continuousLinearMapOfTendsto g h = โฏ.continuousLinearMapOfTendsto g h