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The Hahn-Banach theorem for non-Archimedean-valued fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. W. Ingleton
Affiliation:
King's CollegeNewcastle

Extract

1. The Hahn-Banach theorem on the extension of linear functionals holds in real and complex Banach spaces, but it is well known that it is not in general true in a normed linear space over a field with a non-Archimedean valuation. Sufficient conditions for its truth in such a space have been given, however, by Monna and by Cohen‡. In the present paper, we show that a necessary condition for the property is that the space be totally non-Archimedean in the sense of Monna, and establish a necessary and sufficient condition on the field for the theorem to hold in every totally non-Archimedean space over the field. This result is obtained as a special case of a more general theorem concerning linear operators, which is analogous to a theorem of Nachbin ((6), Theorem 1) concerning operators in real Banach spaces.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1952

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