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Measuresofnon-compactness
discussedinmoredetailinthenextchapter.)Itrequireslittleeffortto
checkthatsuchasetWisequicontinuous.
1
Notation0
Givenanon-emptyset
VC([a
,
b]
;
E)
andapoint
t[a
,
b]
,
let
V(t):={x(t)|xV}
;wewillcallsuchasetasectionof
V
at
t
.In
asimilarvein,if
VC([a
,
b]
;
E)
and
J[a
,
b]
,weput
V(J):=U
V(t)
.
tJ
Moreover,sometimesinordertoavoidmisunderstandingswewill
useanadditionalsubscripttodistinguishbetweenmeasuresofnon-
compactnessindifferentBanachspaces;forexample,theKuratowski
measureofnon-compactnessin
E
and
C([a
,
b]
;
E)
willbedenoted
byDEandDC,respectively.
ThedefinitionoftheKuratowskimeasureofnon-compactnessis
relativelysimple,butactuallycomputingitforagivensubsetisnot.
Wehaveseenthateventhecaseofaunitballrequiressomeingenuity
andanon-triviallemma.(Therearewaystocomputemeasuresofnon-
compactnessinsomespecificmetricspacesseee.g.thepaper[57]
butthetaskseemshopelessingeneral.)Itisthereforenowonderthat
anyresultwhichreducesfindingthemeasureofnon-compactness
ofsomecomplicatedsettosomethingthatatleastlookssimplerisof
interest.Ambrosetti’slemmaisanotableexampleofsucharesult.
Here,theproblemoffindingthemeasureofnon-compactnessof
asubsetofthespaceofvector-valuedcontinuousfunctionsonsome
realintervalisreducedtocomputingmeasuresofnon-compactness
ofitssections.
102080Lemma
(Ambrosetti)
0
Let
E
beaBanachspaceandlet
V
beanon-
empty,equicontinuousandboundedsubsetofC([a,b];E).Then,
(a)
thefunction
v:[a
,
b][
0,
+∞)
definedforeach
t[a
,
b]
bythe
formulav(t):=DE(V(t))isuniformlycontinuous,and
(b)DC(V)=DE(V([a,b]))=max
DE(V(t)).
t[a,b]
Proof.
Letusbeginwithfourremarks.Forthesakeofsimplicity,
throughouttheproof,theinterval
[a
,
b]
willbedenotedby
J
.Fur-
thermore,letusnotethattheboundednessof
V
in
C(J
;
E)
implies
thatthesets
V(J)
and
V(t)
,where
tJ
,areboundedin
E
.Hence,the