\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \usepackage{cancel} \usepackage{amsthm} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{array} \usepackage[left=2cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage{enumitem} \newcommand{\st}{\ \text{s.t.}\ } \newcommand{\abs}[1]{\left\lvert #1 \right\rvert} \newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}} \newcommand{\N}{\mathbb{N}} \newcommand{\Q}{\mathbb{Q}} \newcommand{\C}{\mathbb{C}} \newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}} \DeclareMathOperator{\sign}{sgn} \newtheoremstyle{case}{}{}{}{}{}{:}{ }{} \theoremstyle{case} \newtheorem{case}{Case} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[section] \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem*{theorem*}{Theorem} \newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}[section] \newtheorem*{corollary*}{Corollary} \newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma} \newtheorem*{remark}{Remark} \setlist[enumerate]{font=\bfseries} \renewcommand{\qedsymbol}{$\blacksquare$} \author{Alexander J. Tusa} \title{Real Analysis Homework 8} \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{enumerate} \item \textbf{Section 5.1} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Section 5.1 Questions %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 1 - 5.1 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[1.] Prove the Sequential Criterion 5.1.3.\\ Recall the \textit{Sequential Criterion}: \begin{theorem*} A function $f:A \to \R$ is continuous at the point $c \in A$ if and only if for every sequence $(x_n)$ in $A$ that converges to $c$, the sequence $(f(x_n))$ converges to $f(c)$. \end{theorem*} Let $\varepsilon > 0$ be given. Since we're given that $f$ is continuous, we know that by the definition of continuity, there exists a $\delta >0$ such that if $x \in A$ satisfies $|x-c|<\delta$, then $|f(x)-f(c)|<\varepsilon$. Thus, for that $\delta$, since $x_n \to c,\ \exists\ n_0 \in \N \st n \geq n_0 \implies |x_n-c|<\delta$. Thus we have \begin{align*} n \geq n_0 &\implies |x_n - c|<\delta \\ &\implies |f(x_n)-f(c)|<\varepsilon \\ &\implies \lim\limits_{n \to \infty} f(x_n)=f(c) \end{align*} Now, suppose that for every sequence $(x_n)$ in $A$ that converges to $c$, $f(x_n)$ converges to $f(c)$. We will now show that the $f$ is continuous at $c$. \begin{proof} We want to show that $f$ is continuous at $c$.\\ By way of contradiction, suppose that $f$ is discontinuous at $c$. Then we know that $\exists\ \varepsilon >0\ \forall\ \delta > 0\ |x-c|<\delta$ and $|f(x)-f(c)| \geq \varepsilon$.\\ Let $\delta = \frac{1}{n}$. Then we have that $x_n$ is such that $|x-c|<\frac{1}{n}$ and that $|f(x_n)-f(c)| \geq \varepsilon$.\\ $\therefore$ We have a sequence $(x_n)$ such that $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} x_n = c$ and $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} f(x_n) \neq f(c)$. Notice however that we have a contradiction here, and thus we have that $f$ is continuous at $c$. \end{proof} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 5 - 5.1 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[5.] Let $f$ be defined for all $x \in \R, x \neq 2$, by $f(x)=(x^2+x-6)/(x-2)$. Can $f$ be defined at $x=2$ in such a way that $f$ is continuous at this point?\\ Since we have that $f$ is not defined at $x=2$, we know that we have to factor the numerator to evaluate the limit.\\ So, for $x \neq 2$: \[f(x)=\frac{x^2+x-6}{x-2}=\frac{\cancel{(x-2)}(x+3)}{\cancel{x-2}}=x+3\] Thus, if we let $f(2):=5$, then $f$ is continuous: \[\lim\limits_{x \to 2} f(x) = \lim\limits_{x \to 2} (x+3) = 5\] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 7 - 5.1 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[7.] Let $f:\R \to \R$ be continuous at $c$ and let $f(c)>0$. Show that there exists a neighborhood $V_\delta (c)$ of $c$ such that if $x \in V_\delta (c)$, then $f(x)>0$.\\ \begin{proof} Let $\varepsilon = \frac{f(c)}{2} > 0$. Since we are given that $f$ is continuous at $c$, we know that there exists $\delta > 0$ such that \[|x-c|<\delta \implies |f(x)-f(c)|<\varepsilon = \frac{f(c)}{2}\] Thus, if we define $V_\delta (c) := (c-\delta, c+\delta)$ and if we let $x \in V_\delta (c)$, then we have \begin{align*} x \in V_\delta (c) &\implies |x-c|<\delta \\ &\implies |f(x)-f(c)|<\varepsilon \\ &\implies -\varepsilon < f(x)-f(c)<\varepsilon \\ &\implies f(c)-\frac{f(c)}{2} < f(x) &(\varepsilon = \frac{f(c)}{2}) \\ &\implies \frac{1}{2}f(c) < f(x) \\ &\implies f(x)>0 &(f(c)>0) \end{align*} Thus we have that there exists a neighborhood $V_\delta(c)$ such that if $x \in V_\delta (c)$, then $f(x)>0$. \end{proof} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 11 - 5.1 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[11.] Let $K>0$ and let $f:\R \to \R$ satisfy the condition $|f(x)-f(y)|\leq K|x-y|$ for all $x,y \in \R$. Show that $f$ is continuous at every point $c \in \R$.\\ \begin{proof} We want to show that $f$ is continuous at every point $c \in \R$.\\ Let $\varepsilon >0$ be given, and let $\delta = \frac{\varepsilon}{k}$. Then, for any $c \in \R$, \begin{align*} |x-c|<\delta &\implies |x-c|<\frac{\varepsilon}{k} \\ &\implies k|x-c| < \varepsilon \\ &\implies |f(x)-f(c)| \leq k|x-c|<\varepsilon \\ &\implies |f(x)-f(c)|<\varepsilon \end{align*} Thus we have that $f$ is continuous for $c \in \R$. Since $c$ is arbitrary, this also shows that $f$ is continuous for all $c \in \R$. \end{proof} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 12 - 5.1 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[12.] Suppose that $f:\R \to \R$ is continuous on $\R$ and that $f(r)=0$ for every rational number $r$. Prove that $f(x)=0$ for all $x \in \R$.\\ \begin{proof} We want to show that $f(x)=0,\ \forall\ x \in \R$.\\ Let $x \in \R$. Since we know that $\Q$ is dense in $\R$, we know that we can find a sequence $(x_n)$ of rational numbers such that $(x_n)$ converges to $x$. Thus, by continuity of $f$ at $x$, $(f(x_n))$ converges to $f(x)$. Since $x_n$ is rational, we have that $f(x_n)=0\ \forall\ n \in \N$. Thus we have that $f(x) = \lim f(x_n) = \lim 0 = 0$.\\ $\therefore$ We have that $f(x)=0$ for all $x \in \R$. \end{proof} \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 2 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item Use the definition of continuity to show that the given $f$ is continuous. \begin{enumerate} \item Let $f:\R \to \R$ be given by $f(x)=x^2$.\\ Recall the definition of continuity: \theoremstyle{definition} \begin{definition} Let $A \subseteq \R$, let $f:A \to \R$, and let $c \in A$. We say that $f$ is \textbf{continuous at} $c$ if, given any number $\varepsilon > 0$, there exists $\delta >0$ such that if $x$ is any point of $A$ satisfying $|x-c|<\delta$, then $|f(x)-f(c)|<\varepsilon$. If $f$ fails to be continuous at $c$, then we say that $f$ is \textbf{discontinuous at} $c$. \end{definition} \begin{proof} In order to show that $f$ is continuous for all $c \in \R$, we must consider two cases: $c\neq 0$, and $c=0$.\\ Suppose $c \neq 0$. Then we have the following: \begin{align*} |f(x)-f(c)| &= |x^2 - c^2| \\ &=|(x-c)(x+c)| \\ &=|x-c||x+c| \\ &< |x-c|(|x|+|c|) \\ &<\varepsilon \end{align*} Which yields that \[|x-c|<\frac{\varepsilon}{|x|+|c|}< \frac{\varepsilon}{|x|}\] So, for the case when $c \neq 0$, let $\delta=\frac{\varepsilon}{|x|}$.\\ Now, suppose that $c=0$. Then we have the following: \begin{align*} |f(x)-f(c)| &= |x^2-0^2| \\ &= |x^2| \\ &=(|x|)^2 \\ &< \varepsilon \end{align*} So, we have now that \[(|x|)^2 < \varepsilon \implies |x|<\sqrt{\varepsilon}\] Thus, let $\delta=\sqrt{\varepsilon}$.\\ $\therefore$ Since we have found definitions of $\delta$ that satisfy the definition of continuity, we have that $f$ is continuous $\forall c \in \R$. \end{proof} \item Let $f:(0,\infty) \to \R$ be given by $f(x)=1/x$. \\ \begin{proof} Suppose $x>\frac{c}{2}$, since $c>0$. Then we have that \[\abs{f(x)-f(c)}=\abs{\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{c}}=\frac{|x-c|}{xc}<\frac{2}{c^2}|x-c|<\varepsilon \implies |x-c|<\frac{c^2\varepsilon}{2}\] So, if we let $\delta < \min \{\frac{c^2\varepsilon}{2}, \frac{c}{2}\}$, then we have that if $|x-c|<\delta,\ x>\frac{c}{2}$, and $\abs{\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{c}}<\frac{2}{c^2}\delta \leq \varepsilon$.\\ $\therefore$ We have that $f$ is continuous $\forall\ c \in (0,\infty)$. \end{proof} \item Let $f:\R \to \R$ be given by $f(x)=|x|$ (This is Problem 10 in Section 5.1)\\ \begin{proof} We must first note the following: \begin{align*} |a| &= |a-b+b| \\ &\leq |a-b|+|b| \\ &\Downarrow \\ |a|-|b| &\leq |a-b| \end{align*} $\implies \pm(|a|-|b|) \leq |a-b|$ We also note: \begin{align*} |b| &= |b-a+a| \\ &\leq |b-a| + |a| \\ &=|a-b|+|a| \\ &\Downarrow \\ |b|-|a| &\leq |a-b| \end{align*} $\implies ||a|-|b|| \leq |a-b|$ \begin{align*} |f(x)-f(c)| &= ||x|-|c|| \\ &\leq |x-c| \\ &<\varepsilon \end{align*} Thus if we let $\varepsilon = \delta$, then we have that $|x-c|<\delta$.\\ $\therefore$ We have that $f(x)$ is continuous $\forall\ c \in \R$. \end{proof} \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 3 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item Let $f(x)=\begin{cases} 3x+2 & \text{if } x \text{ is rational} \\ 6-x & \text{if } x \text{ is irrational} \end{cases}$ \begin{enumerate} \item Determine whether or not $f$ is continuous at $x=1$.\\ $f$ is continuous at $x=1$ since we proved in $HW 7$ that $\lim\limits_{x \to 1} f(x)$ exists, $\lim\limits_{x \to 1} f(x)=f(1)=5$. \item Determine whether or not $f$ is continuous at $x=0$.\\ $f$ is not continuous for $x \neq 1$ (and not $x = 0$) since from Homework 7 again, $\lim\limits_{x \to c} f(x)$ does not exists for $x \neq 1$. \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 4 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item Let $g(x)=\begin{cases} 2x & \text{if } x \text{ is rational} \\ x+3 & \text{if } x \text{ is irrational} \end{cases}$ \\ Find all points where $g$ is continuous (This is Problem 13 of Section 5.1)\\ First, let $c$ be some point of continuity of $g$. Then since both $\Q$ and $\R \setminus \Q$ are dense in $\R$, we can find sequences $(x_n) \subset \Q$ and $(y_n) \subset \R \setminus \Q$ such that $(x_n) \to c$ and $(y_n) \to c$. Then we have the following: \begin{align*} g(c) &= \lim\limits_{n \to \infty} g(x_n) \\ &= \lim\limits_{x \to \infty} 2x_n \\ &= 2c &(x_n \to c) \\ \\ g(c) &= \lim\limits_{n \to \infty} g(y_n) \\ &= \lim\limits_{n \to \infty} y_n + 3 \\ &= c+3 &(y_n \to c) \\ \\ \implies 2c &= c+3 \\ &\Updownarrow \\ c &= 3 \end{align*} Thus, we have that if $g$ is continuous at a point $c$, then it must be $c=3$. Thus we conjecture that $g$ is continuous only at $3$.\\ \begin{proof} \begin{align*} |g(x)-g(3)| &= |g(x)-6| &(3 \in \Q) \\ &\leq \sup \{|2x-6|,|(x+3)-6|\} &(x \text{ is either rational or irrational}) \\ &= \sup \{2|x-3|,|x-3|\} \\ &=2|x-3| \end{align*} Thus $\forall\ \varepsilon >0$ let $\delta=\frac{\varepsilon}{2}$. Then we have that \[|x-3| < \delta \implies |g(x)-g(3)|<\varepsilon\] $\therefore$ We have that $g$ is only continuous at $c=3$. \end{proof} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 5 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item Give an example of the following, if possible. \begin{enumerate} \item A function $f$ defined on $\R$ such that it is not continuous at any point in $\R$.\\ Consider the Dirichlet function. This function is not continuous at any points. \item A function $f$ defined on $\R$ such that it is continuous at exactly one point in $\R$.\\ Consider the function $f(x):= \begin{cases} x, & \text{if } x \in \Q \\ 0, & \text{if } x \in \R \setminus \Q \end{cases}$ \\ Notice that this function is continuous only at $x=0$. \item A function $f$ defined on $\R$ such that it is continuous at exactly two points in $\R$.\\ Consider the function $f(x):=\begin{cases} x^2, & \text{if } x \in \Q \\ 1, &\text{if } x \notin \Q \end{cases}$ \\ We notice that this function is continuous only at the points $-1$ and $1$. \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Section 5.2 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item \textbf{Section 5.2} \begin{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 2 - 5.2 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[2.] Show that if $f:A \to \R$ is continuous on $A \subseteq \R$ and if $n \in \N$, then the function $f^n$ defined by $f^n(x)=(f(x))^n$, for $x \in A$, is continuous on $A$.\\ \begin{proof} We want to show that $f^n$ is continuous. We prove it by method of mathematical induction.\\ \textbf{Basis Step:} Let $n=1$. Then we have that $f^1(x)=(f(x))^1=f(x) \implies f^1=f$. Since we are given that $f$ is continuous, we know that $f^1$ is continuous as well.\\ \textbf{Inductive Step:} Assume that $f^n(x)=(f(x))^n$ is continuous $\forall\ n \in \N$.\\ \textbf{Show:} We want to show that $f^{n+1}(x)=(f(x))^{n+1}$ is continuous $\forall\ n \in \N$. Then we have \[f^{n+1}=f^n \cdot f\] Recall \textit{Theorem 5.2.1}: \begin{theorem*} Let $A \subseteq \R$, let $f$ and $g$ be functions on $A$ to $\R$, and let $b \in \R$. Suppose that $c \in A$ and that $f$ and $g$ are continuous at $c$. \begin{enumerate} \item Then $f+g,\ f-g,\ fg$, and $bf$ are continuous at $c$. \item If $h:A \rightarrow \R$ is continuous at $c \in A$ and if $h(x) \neq 0$ for all $x \in A$, then the quotient $f/h$ is continuous at $c$. \end{enumerate} \end{theorem*} Since both $f^n$ and $f$ are continuous functions, by \textit{Theorem 5.2.1}, we have that $f^n\cdot f=f^{n+1}$ is a continuous function on $A$ since it is the product of continuous functions on $A$.\\ $\therefore$ By the Principle of Mathematical Induction, we have that $f^n$ is continuous $\forall\ n \in \N$ on $A$. \end{proof} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 3 - 5.2 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[3.] Give an example of functions $f$ and $g$ that are both discontinuous at a point $c$ in $\R$ such that $(a)$ the sum $f+g$ is continuous at $c$ and $(b)$ the product $fg$ is continuous at $c$.\\ Consider the functions $f(x):=\begin{cases} 1, & x=0 \\ 0, & x \neq 0 \end{cases}$, and $g(x):=\begin{cases} 0, & x=0 \\ 1, & x \neq 0 \end{cases}$ \\ We first note that both $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ are discontinuous at $x=0$. \begin{enumerate} \item[(a)] Note that the sum \[f(x)+g(x):=\begin{cases} 1+0, & x=0 \\ 0+1, & x \neq 0 \end{cases} = \begin{cases} 1, & x=0 \\ 1, & x \neq 0 \end{cases}=1\]. Thus, we have that the sum $f(x)+g(x)$ is a constant function, and thus is defined $\forall\ x \in \R$, and thus $f(x)+g(x)$ is continuous at $c$, where $c=0$. \item[(b)] Now, the product $f(x)\cdot g(x)$ is \[f(x) \cdot g(x):= \begin{cases} 1 \cdot 0, & x=0 \\ 0 \cdot 1, & x \neq 0 \end{cases} = \begin{cases} 0, & x=0 \\ 0, & x \neq 0 \end{cases}=0\] Thus we have that the product of $f(x) \cdot g(x)$ is also a continuous function since $f(x) \cdot g(x)=0$. Thus, we have that $f(x) \cdot g(x)$ is continuous $\forall\ x \in \R$. Hence $f(x) \cdot g(x)$ is continuous at $c$, where $c=0$. \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 5 - 5.2 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[5.] Let $g$ be defined on $\R$ by $g(1):=0$, and $g(x):=2$ if $x \neq 1$, and let $f(x):=x+1$ for all $x \in \R$. Show that $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} g \circ f \neq (g \circ f)(0)$. Why doesn't this contradict Theorem 5.2.6?\\ Recall \textit{Theorem 5.2.6}: \begin{theorem*} Let $A,B \subseteq \R$ and let $f:A \rightarrow \R$ and $g:B \rightarrow \R$ be functions such that $f(A) \subseteq B$. If $f$ is continuous at a point $c \in A$ and g is continuous at $b= f(c) \in B$, then the composition $g \circ f:A \rightarrow \R$ is continuous $c$. \end{theorem*} Note that we have $g(x):=\begin{cases} 0, & x=1 \\ 2, & x \neq 1 \end{cases}$, and $f(x):=x+1$.\\ Thus $(g \circ f)(x)=g(f(x))=g(x+1)=\begin{cases} 0, & x+1=1 \\ 2, & x+1 \neq 1 \end{cases} = \begin{cases} 0, & x=0 \\ 2, & x \neq 0 \end{cases}$\\ This gives us that $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} (g \circ f)(x) = \lim\limits_{x \to 0} 2 = 2$, since $x \to 0 \implies x \neq 0$\\ Thus we have that $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} (g \circ f)(x) \neq (g \circ f)(0)$ since $2 \neq 0$.\\ The reason that this does not violate \textit{Theorem 5.2.6} is because $g$ is discontinuous at $f(0)$, since $f(0)=1$. \\ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 7 - 5.2 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item[7.] Give an example of a function $f:[0,1] \to \R$ that is discontinuous at every point of $[0,1]$ but such that $|f|$ is continuous on $[0,1]$.\\ Let $f(x):=\begin{cases} -1, & x \in \Q \\ 1, & x \in \R \setminus \Q \end{cases}$\\ Recall \textit{Theorem 2.4.8 - The Density Theorem}: \begin{theorem*}[\textbf{The Density Theorem}] If $x$ and $y$ are any real numbers with $x 0$ be given, and let $c \in \R$ be arbitrary such that $c \neq 0$. Since $g$ is continuous at 0 and $g(c) \neq 0$, we know that $\exists\ \delta >0 \st \forall\ x \in \R$, we have: \[|x-0|<\delta \implies |g(x)-g(0)|<\frac{\varepsilon}{|g(c)|}\] that is, since $g(0)=1$, \[|x| < \delta \implies |g(x)-1|<\frac{\varepsilon}{|g(c)|}\] Thus, for $x \in \R \st |x-c|<\delta$, we have \begin{align*} |g(x)-g(c)| &= |g((x-c)+c)-g(c)| \\ &=|g(x-c)g(c)-g(c)| &(g(a+b)=g(a)g(b)) \\ &= |g(c)(g(x-c)-1)| \\ &=|g(c)||g(x-c)-1| \\ &= |g(c)||g(h)-1| &(\text{Substitue } h:=x-c) \\ &<|g(c)|\frac{\varepsilon}{|g(c)|} &(|h|=|x-c|<\delta) \\ &= \varepsilon \end{align*} \end{case} $\therefore$ We have that $g$ is continuous at $c$. Since $c \neq 0$ was arbitrary and $g$ is continuous at 0, we have that $g$ is continuous on $\R$. \end{proof} \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%% Question 7 %%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \item Prove or justify if true. Provide a counterexample if false. \begin{enumerate} \item Let $f$ be defined on $[a,b]$. Let $x_n$ be any sequence in $[a,b]$. The sequence $\{f(x_n)\}$ converges to $f(c)$ for $x_n$ converging to $c \in [a,b]$ implies that $f$ is continuous at $x=c$. \\ This is true. Recall the \textit{Sequential Criterion for Continuity}: \begin{theorem*}[\textbf{Sequential Criterion for Continuity}] A function $f:A \rightarrow \R$ is continuous at the point $c \in A$ if and only if for every sequence $(x_n)$ in $A$ that converges to $c$, the sequence $(f(x_n))$ converges to $f(c)$. \end{theorem*} This is true by the \textit{Sequential Criterion for Continuity}.\\ \item If $f$ is continuous on $D$ and the sequence $x_n$ in $D$ is a converging sequence, then the sequence $\{f(x_n)\}$ converges.\\ This statement is false. Consider the function $f:(0,1) \to \Q$ given by $f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$, and consider the sequence $x_n:= (0.1, 0.01,0.001,0.0001, \dots),\ \forall\ n \in \N$. Then we have that $x_n \to 0$, but since $0 \notin (0,1)$ and since $(0,1)$ is not a compact set, this violates the \textit{Sequential Criterion for Continuity} and thus this statement is false. \end{enumerate} \end{enumerate} \end{document}