Tuesday, 13 August 2013

real analysis - Limits at Infinity and limit equality

I'm given function f:(a,)R which has a limit at infinity, i.e., limxf(x) exists, call it L. And I want to show that given a function g(x):=f(1/x), which is defined on (0,1/a), that this function g(x) has a limit at 0 if and only if the limit of f as x tends to infinity exists.



I know I have to use the ϵδ defintion, but before that I think the following is an equivalent formulation:

limxf(x)=limx0f(1/x).


I know this is just an exercise in chasing the ϵδ notation, but I think the "trick" here is to use the fact that if f has a limit at infinity, then for all ϵ>0, there exists M>a such that for all xM we have that |f(x)L|<ϵ. So I think the idea here is to pick my δ as 1/M since we have that
xM1/x1/M

and we know that if xM then |f(x)L|<ϵ. So if we suppose ϵ0>0 and that |f(1/x)L|<ϵ0 will δ0=1/M suffice? My intuition says yes, but I am not sure how to formulate this rigorously.

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