Definition:Reflexive Space

Definition
Let $\struct {X, \norm \cdot_X}$ be a normed vector space.

Let $\struct {X^{\ast \ast}, \norm \cdot_{X^{\ast \ast} } }$ be the second normed dual of $\struct {X, \norm \cdot_X}$.

Let $J : X \to X^{\ast \ast}$ be the evaluation linear transformation.

We say that $X$ is reflexive :


 * $J$ is an isometric isomorphism.