[Math] Version of Banach-Steinhaus theorem

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I am wondering about the following version of the Banach-Steinhaus theorem.

Let $A$ be a closed convex subset contained in the unit ball of a Banach space $X$ and consider bounded operators $T_n \in \mathcal L(X).$

Assume we know that for every $x \in A$ the sequence $\left\lVert T_n x \right\rVert$ is bounded uniformly in $n.$

Does this imply that $$\sup_{x \in A} \left\lVert T_n x \right\rVert$$ is bounded uniformly in $n$?

If $A=X$ then the theorem is undoubtedly true by the folklore Banach-Steinhaus theorem but I was wondering whether this version holds as well?

Best Answer

The answer is yes, as a close inspection of the standard proof of the uniform boundedness principle/Banach-Steinhaus theorem shows. The standard proof (or at least the proof which I would consider to be the standard one) can e.g. be found on Wikipedia.

The details are a bit different here, so let me give them below. Throughout, let us replace the sequence $(T_n)$ with a general subset $\mathcal{T} \subseteq \mathcal{L}(X)$.

Proof. By Baire's Theorem we can find an integer $m$ such that the set \begin{align*} B := \{x \in A: \, \|Tx\| \le m \text{ for all } T \in \mathcal{T}\} \end{align*} has non-empty interior within $A$. Thus, we can find a point $x_0 \in B$ and a real number $\varepsilon \in (0,1]$ such that each $x \in A$ which has distance at most $\varepsilon$ to $x_0$ is contained in $B$.

Now, let $y \in A$. The vector $z := x_0 + \frac{\varepsilon}{2}(y-x_0)$ is contained in $A$ due to the convexity of $A$, and its distance to $x_0$ is at most $\varepsilon$ since both $y$ and $x_0$ have norm at most $1$. Thus, $\|Tz\| \le m$ for all $T \in \mathcal{T}$. Since \begin{align*} y = \frac{2}{\varepsilon}(z - x_0) + x_0, \end{align*} we conclude that \begin{align*} \|Ty\| \le \frac{4m}{\varepsilon} + m \end{align*} for all $T \in \mathcal{T}$. This bound does not depend on $y$.

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