Normed space

A normed vector space is a vector space equipped with a norm. It is a particular case of a metric space.

If it is Cauchy complete with respect to the topology induced by the norm, is a Banach space.

Examples of norms:

\begin{aligned} ‖ x ‖_{p} = {(\sum_{i = 1}^{n} {| x_{i} |}^{p})}^{1 / p}, for p \in [1, \infty) \\ ‖ x ‖_{\infty} = max_{i = 1 : n} | x_{i} | \end{aligned}

Especial class of norms: matrices norms. For example: in the matrix algebra $M_{n}$ , given a matrix $A$ we define the infinity norm

‖ A ‖_{\infty} = {max}_{i \leq i \leq n} \sum_{j = 1}^{n} | a_{i j} | .

It is induced by the infinity norm of $R^{n}$ .

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Author of the notes: Antonio J. Pan-Collantes

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