Tuesday, 30 April 2013

analysis - Clarification of the proof that if f is continuous on [a,b] then f is uniformly continuous on [a,b]



Claim: If f is continuous on [a,b] then f is uniformly continuous on [a,b].



Proof: Suppose that f is not uniformly continuous on [a,b], then there exists ϵ>0 such that for each δ>0 there must exist x,y[a,b] such that |xy|<δ and |f(x)f(y)|ϵ .

Thus for each nN there exists xn,yn such that |xnyn|<1n, and By B-W, xn has a subsequence xnk with limit xo that belongs to [a,b].

Now here is where I am confused, the author next states that "Clearly we also have x0 is the limit of the sub-sequence ynk". Are xn and yn not potentially different sequences? Why would the same indexes chosen to form a sub-sequence give the same convergent value.



Answer



For every c>0, there exists k0 such that k>k0 implies that $|x_0-x_{n_k}|k_0suchthat{1\over n_{k'_0}}k'_0,|x_0-y_{n_k}|\leq |x_0-x_{n_k}|+|x_{n_k}-y_{n_k}|\leq |x_0-x_{n_k}|+{1\over n_k}

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