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category of Banach spaces with linear contractions

  • notation: Ban\Ban
  • objects: Banach spaces over C\IC
  • morphisms: linear contractions, i.e. linear maps of norm 1\leq 1
  • Related categories: Met\Met
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The choice of morphisms is similar to that of Met\Met which yields better categorical properties.

Satisfied Properties

Assigned properties

Deduced properties

Unsatisfied Properties

Assigned properties

Deduced properties*

*This also uses the deduced satisfied properties.

Unknown properties

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Special objects

  • terminal object: trivial Banach space
  • initial object: trivial Banach space
  • products: The product of a family of Banach spaces (Xi,)iI(X_i,|{-}|)_{i \in I} is the subspace {xiIXi:supiIxi<}\bigl\{x \in \prod_{i \in I} X_i : \sup_{i \in I} |x_i| < \infty\bigr\} of their vector space product equipped with the sup\sup-norm xsupiIxi|x|_\infty \coloneqq \sup_{i \in I} |x_i|.
  • coproducts: The coproduct of a family of Banach spaces (Xi,)iI(X_i,|{-}|)_{i \in I} is the subspace {xiIXi:iIxi<}\bigl\{x \in \prod_{i \in I} X_i : \sum_{i \in I} |x_i| < \infty\bigr\} of their vector space product equipped with the 11-norm x1iIxi|x|_1 \coloneqq \sum_{i \in I} |x_i|.

Special morphisms

  • isomorphisms: bijective linear isometries
  • monomorphisms: injective linear contractions
  • epimorphisms: linear contractions with dense image
  • regular monomorphisms: For a linear contraction f:XYf : X \to Y the following are equivalent: (1) ff is a regular monomorphism. (2) ff is isometric. (3) ff is isomorphic to the inclusion of a closed subspace of YY.
  • regular epimorphisms: For a linear contraction f:XYf : X \to Y the following are equivalent: (1) ff is a regular epimorphism. (2) The norm on YY is given by y=inf{x:f(x)=y}|y| = \inf \{|x| : f(x) = y\}. (3) ff maps the open unit ball of XX onto the open unit ball of YY.