Let be a vector subspace of a normed vector space .
What can be said of the interior of ?
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Let us denote the norm on .
Assume the interior of is not empty, which means that there exists a small open ball centered at an element of , say , of radius .
Now take in . Hence is a vector such that , hence it belongs to the ball formerly defined and so to . But then is a linear combinaison of and so it belongs to since it is a vector space.
Finally, whether (and then the interior of is itself), whether the interior of is empty.
