On sup- and inf-attaining functionals

Reflexivity is characterized by the weak-compactness of the unit ball. The weak-compactness of bounded, closed, and convex sets is characterized through sup-attaining functionals in view of the famous James’ theorem. The aim of this mathematical note is to provide the construction of bounded, closed...

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Main Author: García-Pacheco Francisco Javier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2024-12-01
Series:Open Mathematics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2024-0090
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Summary:Reflexivity is characterized by the weak-compactness of the unit ball. The weak-compactness of bounded, closed, and convex sets is characterized through sup-attaining functionals in view of the famous James’ theorem. The aim of this mathematical note is to provide the construction of bounded, closed, and convex subsets for which there exists a functional attaining its supremum on such a set but not its infimum. This construction leads to a characterization of reflexivity in the category of normed spaces and a characterization of full norm-attainment also in the category of normed spaces.
ISSN:2391-5455