New Stone-Weierstrass Theorem

Abstract

Without the successful work of Professor Kakutani on representing a unit vector space as a dense vector sub-lattice of in 1941, where X is a compact Hausdorff space and C(X) is the space of real continuous functions on X . Professor M. H. Stone would not begin to work on “The generalized Weierstrass approximation theorem” and published the paper in 1948. Latter, we call this theorem as “Stone-Weierstrass theorem” which provided the sufficient and necessary conditions for a vector sub-lattice V to be dense in . From the theorem, it is not clear and easy to see whether 1) “the vector sub-lattice V of C(X) contains constant functions” is or is not a necessary condition; 2) Is there any clear example of a vector sub-lattice V which is dense in , but V does not contain constant functions. This implies that we do need some different version of “Stone-Weierstrass theorem” so that we will be able to understand the “Stone-Weierstrass theorem” clearly and apply it to more places where they need this wonderful theorem.