I recently started to study about Holder norms and here is a definition from Evans' book:
When our professor wrote down these definitions, he said that "We need the $\;L_{\infty}-$norm in order to define Holder norm because constant functions would be a problem".
As I try to understand everything he says, I explained to myself the above statement as follows:
If $\;u(x)=const.\;$ then $\;[u]_{C^{0,γ}}=0\;$ but $\;u(x)\;$ is not necessary zero. Thus it couldn't be $\;[u]_{C^{0,γ}}\;$ the Holder-norm. (And this is why Evans states it as a seminorm)
Is the above thought correct? I would really appreciate if somebody could confirm it and moreover suggest me some books where I could see Holder-norms in more details.
Thanks in advance!