Monday, April 1, 2019

real analysis - A function continuous and bounded on a closed and bounded set but not uniformly continuous there



I'm reading 'Counterexamples in analysis by Bernard Gelbaum' which has this as one the counterexample
Function is defined on Q[0,2] which is closed and bounded set



f(x)={0,if 0  x < 2 1,if 2 < x 



I concluded that it is a continuous function since co-domain is {0,1} and f1 {0} and f1{1} are closed in Q[0,2] ( i. e. inverse image of closed sets is closed and hence f is continuous )
but I'm facing trouble in proving that it is not uniformly continuous. Please help.



Also author mentioned that field Q is not complete and hence we can have such example . If possible then please explain this point also.


Answer




Well some minute points regarding continuity of f:



You also need to verify that inverse image of all the opens sets viz.{{0},{1},{0,1},} are all open .



Regarding uniform continuity of f:



Since Q is dense ,there exists a sequence xn[0,2]Q such that xn2|xn2|<1nn.



Similarly since Q is dense ,there exists a sequence yn[2,2]Q such that yn2|2yn|<1nn.




Hence |xnyn||xn2|+|2yn|1nn but |f(xn)f(yn)|=1.



NOTE:Since Q is not complete hence it has gaps and always such an example is available


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