224 Ell P

A set of sequences of values where each sequence has a finite norm defined by a parameter that is used to find the distance between sequences.

definition [d] (\(\ell^{p}\)) From Kreyszig 1.2-3: let \(p \geq 1\) be a fixed real number. By definition, each element in the space \(\ell^{p}\) is a sequence \(x = (\xi_{j}) = (\xi_{1}, \xi_{2}, \ldots)\) of numbers such that \(|\xi_{1}|^{p} + |\xi_{2}|^{p} + \cdots\) converges; thus

  • \(\displaystyle\sum_{j=1}^{\infty} |\xi_{j}|^{p} < \infty\) (\(p \geq 1\), fixed)

and the metric is defined by

  • \(\displaystyle d(x,y) = \left( \sum_{j=1}^{\infty} |\xi_{j} - \eta_{j}|^{p} \right)^{1/p}\)

where \(y = (\eta_{j})\) and \(\sum |\eta_{j}|^{p} < \infty\).

From Kreyszig 2.2-3: the space \(\ell^{p}\) is a Banach space with norm

  • \(\displaystyle \lVert x \rVert = \left( \sum_{j=1}^{\infty} |\xi_{j}|^{p} \right)^{1/p}\) .

where

  • \(p \geq 1\) is a fixed real number.
  • \(x = (\xi_{j})\) is a sequence of scalars.
  • \(y = (\eta_{j})\) is another such sequence.

224.1 Elementary Example

224.1.1 Simple

The space \(\ell^{p}\) consists of \(p\)-summable sequences with the \(p\)-norm. For \(p = 1\), a three-term sequence is an element after zero-padding.

\[ p = 1,\quad x = (1,-2,3,0,0,\ldots) \]

\[ \lVert x \rVert = |1| + |-2| + |3| = 6 \]

where

  • \(\ell^{p}\) is the set of all such sequences.
  • \(\lVert x \rVert\) is the \(\ell^{p}\) norm.

224.1.2 General

For \(p = 2\), distance between two sequences uses the \(\ell^{2}\) metric.

\[ x = (1,0,0,\ldots),\quad y = (0,1,0,\ldots),\quad p = 2 \]

\[ d(x,y) = \bigl(|1-0|^{2} + |0-1|^{2}\bigr)^{1/2} = \sqrt{2} \]

where

  • \(d(x,y) = \lVert x - y \rVert\) is Kreyszig’s metric on \(\ell^{p}\).

224.2 References

  1. Kreyszig, E. Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications. Wiley, 1989. — 1.2-3 Space \(\ell^{p}\); 2.2-3 Space \(\ell^{p}\) as Banach space with \(p\)-norm.