TITLE: How to write this vector in terms of Hamel basis?
QUESTION [0 upvotes]: Let $(c,c,c,...)$ be a vector  in $l_\infty$, where $c \ne 0$. How to write this vector in terms of Hamel basis?

REPLY [2 votes]: It's not clear exactly which misconceptions you have here, so I'll just say a few things and hopefully it will clarify.

The set $\{(1,0,0,\ldots),(0,1,0,0,\ldots), \ldots\}$ is not a Hamel basis for $l_\infty$ as is evidenced by the fact that $(c,c,\ldots)$ cannot be written as a finite linear combination of those vectors.
There is no such thing as the Hamel basis. There are generally many of them. There is also not generally a canonical basis, so saying "the" doesn't even work implicitly. 
It is generally impossible to explicitly exhibit a basis (and $l_\infty$ is not an exception), so there's no way to answer your question in any kind of generality. However, from the usual general proof that a basis exists, it's reasonably clear that, for some given element $v$ of your vector space $V,$ that there is a basis that contains $v$ as an element. More generally, for any linearly independent subset $L\subseteq V,$ there is a basis $B$ with $L\subseteq B.$ (The usual argument applies Zorn's lemma to the set of all linearly independent subsets of $V,$ and we can just modify it to instead consider the set of all linearly independent subsets of $V$ that contain $L$ as a subset.) So there are certainly bases in which your vector $(c,c,\ldots)$ has a simple expression.
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