TY - JOUR ID - Niemiec2011 LB - Niemiec2011 AU - Niemiec, Piotr TI - Strengthened Stone-Weierstrass type theorem ST - Strengthened Stone-Weierstrass type theorem JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2011 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 645 EP - 650 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2011.31.4.645 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2011.31.4.645 AB - The aim of the paper is to prove that if \(L\) is a linear subspace of the space \(\mathcal{C}(K)\) of all real-valued continuous functions defined on a nonempty compact Hausdorff space \(K\) such that \(\min(|f|, 1) \in L\) whenever \(f \in L\), then for any nonzero \(g \in \overline{L}\) (where \(\overline{L}\) denotes the uniform closure of \(L\) in \(\mathcal{C}(K)\)) and for any sequence \((b_n)_{n=1}^{\infty}\) of positive numbers satisfying the relation \(\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} b_n = \|g\|\) there exists a sequence \((f_n)_{n=1}^{\infty}\) of elements of \(L\) such that \(\|f_n \|= b_n\) for each \(n \geq 1\), \(g = \sum _{n=1}^{\infty} f_n \) and \(|g|= \sum _{n=1}^{\infty} |f_n| \). Also the formula for \(\overline{L}\) is given. KW - Stone-Weierstrass theorem KW - function lattices SN - 1232-9274 ER -