Stone-Weierstrass theorem for locally compact spaces
The following results generalize the Stone-Weierstrass theorem (and its complex version (http://planetmath.org/StoneWeierstrassTheoremComplexVersion)) for locally compact spaces. The cost of this generalization is that one no longer deals with all continuous functions
, but only those that vanish at infinity.
Real version
Theorem - Let be a locally compact space and the algebra of continuous functions that vanish at infinity (http://planetmath.org/ VanishAtInfinity), endowed with the sup norm . Let be a subalgebra of for which the following conditions hold:
- 1.
, i.e. separates points.
- 2.
For each there exists such that .
Then is dense in .
Complex version
Theorem - Let be a locally compact space and the algebra of continuous functions that vanish at infinity, endowed with the sup norm . Let be a subalgebra of for which the following conditions hold:
- 1.
, i.e. separates points.
- 2.
For each there exists such that .
- 3.
If then , i.e. is a self-adjoint subalgebra of .
Then is dense in .