The genuine trace-class Banach space
Abstract
Analytic trace norms and bounded trace pairings on arbitrary complete complex Hilbert spaces.
Theorem 1.1 (The genuine trace-class Banach space).
Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/Quantum/Analysis/TraceClass/Banach.isTraceClass_of_tendsto_of_traceNorm_bounded (✓ std3). ∎
Citation. Tom Ole Diem (2026). Analytic trace-class and Hilbert-Schmidt operators. URL: https://github.com/leanprover-community/physlib/tree/b9043cc548ef6d63a28454cf3a57fb12a0c2e142/PhyslibAlpha/AlgebraicFramework/HilbertSpace/TraceClass.
Commentary.
The trace norm equips the trace-class submodule with a complete complex normed-space structure. The operator norm is bounded by the trace norm. Uniformly trace-norm-bounded operator-norm limits are trace class with the same bound; this supplies the completeness proof.
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