Uniform norm

In mathematical analysis, the uniform norm (or sup norm) assigns to real- or complex-valued bounded functions $f$ defined on a set $S$ the non-negative number

\|f\|_{\infty }=\|f\|_{\infty ,S}=\sup \left\{\,|f(s)|:s\in S\,\right\}.

The perimeter of the square is the set of points in

ℝ 2

where the sup norm equals a fixed positive constant. For example, points

(2, 0)

,

(2, 1)

, and

(2, 2)

lie along the perimeter of a square and belong to the set of vectors whose sup norm is 2.

This norm is also called the supremum norm, the Chebyshev norm, the infinity norm, or, when the supremum is in fact the maximum, the max norm. The name "uniform norm" derives from the fact that a sequence of functions $\left\{f_{n}\right\}$ converges to $f$ under the metric derived from the uniform norm if and only if $f_{n}$ converges to $f$ uniformly.[1]

If $f$ is a continuous function on a closed and bounded interval, or more generally a compact set, then it is bounded and the supremum in the above definition is attained by the Weierstrass extreme value theorem, so we can replace the supremum by the maximum. In this case, the norm is also called the maximum norm. In particular, if $x$ is some vector such that $x=\left(x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n}\right)$ in finite dimensional coordinate space, it takes the form:

\|x\|_{\infty }:=\max \left(\left|x_{1}\right|,\ldots ,\left|x_{n}\right|\right).

Metric and topology

The metric generated by this norm is called the Chebyshev metric, after Pafnuty Chebyshev, who was first to systematically study it.

If we allow unbounded functions, this formula does not yield a norm or metric in a strict sense, although the obtained so-called extended metric still allows one to define a topology on the function space in question.

The binary function

d(f,g)=\|f-g\|_{\infty }

is then a metric on the space of all bounded functions (and, obviously, any of its subsets) on a particular domain. A sequence $\left\{f_{n}:n=1,2,3,\ldots \right\}$ converges uniformly to a function $f$ if and only if

\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }\left\|f_{n}-f\right\|_{\infty }=0.\,

We can define closed sets and closures of sets with respect to this metric topology; closed sets in the uniform norm are sometimes called uniformly closed and closures uniform closures. The uniform closure of a set of functions A is the space of all functions that can be approximated by a sequence of uniformly-converging functions on $A.$ For instance, one restatement of the Stone–Weierstrass theorem is that the set of all continuous functions on $[a,b]$ is the uniform closure of the set of polynomials on $[a,b].$

For complex continuous functions over a compact space, this turns it into a C* algebra.

Properties

The set of vectors whose infinity norm is a given constant, $c,$ forms the surface of a hypercube with edge length $2c.$

The reason for the subscript " $\infty$ " is that whenever $f$ is continuous

\lim _{p\to \infty }\|f\|_{p}=\|f\|_{\infty },

where

\|f\|_{p}=\left(\int _{D}|f|^{p}\,d\mu \right)^{1/p}

where $D$ is the domain of $f$ and the integral amounts to a sum if $D$ is a discrete set (see p-norm).

References

Rudin, Walter (1964). Principles of Mathematical Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 151. ISBN 0-07-054235-X.

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[1] Rudin, Walter (1964). Principles of Mathematical Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 151. ISBN 0-07-054235-X.

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