## Note on a theorem of Murray.(English)Zbl 0063.03692

From the introduction: In a recent paper [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 58, 77–95 (1945; Zbl 0063.04140)] F. J. Murray has shown that in any reflexive separable Banach space $$\mathfrak B$$ every closed subspace $$\mathfrak M$$ admits what he calls a quasi-complement, that is, a second closed subspace $$\mathfrak N$$ such that $$\mathfrak M\cap\mathfrak N = 0$$ and such that $$\mathfrak M + \mathfrak N$$, the smallest subspace containing both $$\mathfrak M$$ and $$\mathfrak N$$, is dense in $$\mathfrak B$$. It is the purpose of this note to give a simpler proof of the following somewhat more general theorem.
Theorem. Let $$\mathfrak B$$ be a separable normed linear space (not necessarily reflexive or even complete) and let $$\mathfrak M$$ be a closed subspace of $$\mathfrak B$$. Then there exists a second closed subspace $$\mathfrak N$$ such that $$\mathfrak M\cap\mathfrak N = 0$$ and $$\mathfrak M + \mathfrak N$$ is dense in $$\mathfrak B$$.
In proving this theorem it is convenient to make use of the notion of closed subspace of a linear system discussed at length in Chapter III of [S. Banach, Théorie des opérations linéaires. (1932; Zbl 0005.20901)].

### MSC:

 46-XX Functional analysis

### Citations:

Zbl 0063.04140; Zbl 0005.20901
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### References:

 [1] F. J. Murray, Quasi-complements and closed projections in reflexive Banach spaces, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (1945), 77 – 95. · Zbl 0063.04140 [2] George W. Mackey, On infinite-dimensional linear spaces, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (1945), 155 – 207. · Zbl 0061.24301 [3] S. Banach, Théorie des operations linéaires, Warsaw, 1932. · JFM 58.0420.01
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