A corollary of Hahn-Banach

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I have this exercice. enter image description here

It's easy to prove that $1\Leftarrow 2$;

Now I want to prove the other implication.

Let $f_0$ be a function such that:

$$f_0: span (x_1,...,x_n):=\left\{{\left.\sum _{i=1}^{n}\lambda _{i}x_{i}\right|\lambda _{i}\in \mathbf {R} }\right\}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$$ such that : $f_0(\sum _{i=1}^{n}\lambda _{i}x_{i})=\sum_{i=1}^{n}\lambda_i.\left \| x_i \right \|$

Now, using Hahn-Banach theorem we can find the result. But how to prove that: $\left \| f_0 \right \|=1$???

PS: $f\in (F')_1$ means that $\left \| f \right \|_{F'}=1$

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First notice that if $\|x+y\| = \|x\| + \|y\|$ holds, then for all $\alpha, \beta \ge 0$ we also have $$\|\alpha x+\beta y\| = \alpha\|x\| + \beta\|y\|$$

Namely:

\begin{align} \alpha\|x\| + \beta\|y\| &= \alpha(\|x\| + \|y\|) - (\alpha - \beta)\|y\| \\ &= \|\alpha(x+y)\| - \|(\alpha - \beta)y\|\\ &\le \|\alpha(x+y) - (\alpha - \beta)y\|\\ &= \|\alpha x + \beta y\|\\ &\le \alpha\|x\| + \beta\|y\| \end{align}

This inductively generalizes to $$\left\|\sum_{i=1}^n x_i\right\| = \sum_{i=1}^n \|x_i\| \implies \left\|\sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_ix_i\right\| = \sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i\|x_i\| = \sum_{i=1}^n \|\alpha_i x_i\|, \text{ for all } \alpha_i \ge 0$$


Now, your functional $f_0 : \operatorname{span}\{x_1, \ldots, x_n\} \to \mathbb{R}$ is acting as

$$f_0\left(\sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i x_i\right) = \sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i\|x_i\|, \text{ for all }\alpha_i \in \mathbb{R}$$

so we have:

$$\left|f_0\left(\sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i x_i\right)\right| = \left|\sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_i\|x_i\|\right| \le \sum_{i=1}^n |\alpha_i| \|x_i\| = \sum_{i=1}^n \|\alpha_ix_i\| =\left\|\sum_{i=1}^n \alpha_ix_i\right\|$$

Therefore $\|f_0\| \le 1$.

For the reverse inequality, notice that $$\|f_0\|\ge \frac{|f_0(x_i)|}{\|x_i\|} = \frac{\|x_i\|}{\|x_i\|} = 1$$

We conclude $\|f_0\| = 1$.