In mathematical analysis, a Banach limit is a continuous linear functional ϕ:ℓ∞→C{\displaystyle \phi :\ell ^{\infty }\to \mathbb {C} } defined on the Banach space ℓ∞{\displaystyle \ell ^{\infty }} of all bounded complex-valued sequences such that for all sequences x=(xn){\displaystyle x=(x_{n})}, y=(yn){\displaystyle y=(y_{n})} in ℓ∞{\displaystyle \ell ^{\infty }}, and complex numbers α{\displaystyle \alpha }: