Bernstein's Lethargy Theorem in Frechet Spaces

Abstract

In this paper we consider Bernstein's Lethargy Theorem (BLT) in the context of Fréchet spaces. Let $X$ be an infinite-dimensional Fréchet space and let $\mathcal{V}=\{V_n\}$ be a nested sequence of subspaces of $X$ such that $\overline{V_n}\subseteq V_{n+1}$ for any $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and $X=\overline{{\bigcup }_{n=1}^{\infty }{V}_n}.$ Let $e_n$ be a decreasing sequence of positive numbers tending to 0. Under an additional natural condition on $\sup\{\{dist}(x, V_n)\}$, we prove that there exists $x\in X$ and $n_o\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $$ \frac{e_n}{3} \leq \{dist}(x,V_n) \leq 3 e_n $$ for any $n\ge n_o$. By using the above theorem, we prove both Shapiro's \cite{Sha} and Tyuremskikh's \cite{Tyu} theorems for Fréchet spaces. Considering rapidly decreasing sequences, other versions of the BLT theorem in Fréchet spaces will be discussed. We also give a theorem improving Konyagin's \cite{Kon} result for Banach spaces.

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