Tuesday, 10 December 2013

A Cauchy sequence is convergent over the complex plane.



I'm trying to prove that a Cauchy sequence is convergent over the complex plane. I think I have proved it, yet I would like to be sure. Any aid is greatly appreciated. Here's what I've done:



Let {zn} be a Cauchy sequence in Cε>0NN such that n,mN||znzm||<ε. Then zmBε(zn). We have that Bε(zn)¯Bε(zn). Since ¯Bε(zn) is compact and Bε(zn) has infinitely many points, then it must have a limit point, making {zn} convergent.



Thank you for your help.



Answer



The correct way to prove it is:



You can prove that every Cauchy sequence is bounded so zn is bounded.



Thus exists M>0 such that ||zn0||=||zn||M,nNzncl(B(0,M))



Then you use your following arguments with the limit point compactness.



Here it is another proof if you want to take a look at:





Let znC a Cauchy sequence.



zn=xn+iyn



We have that ||zmzn||0(xnxm)2+(ynym)20 as m,n+



We have that |xnxm|=(xnxm)2(xnxm)2+(ynym)20 |ynym|=(ynym)2(xnxm)2+(ynym)20




Thus xn,yn are Cauchy sequences in R which is complete(i.e every Cauchy sequence in R converges).



So exists x0,y0R such that xnx0 yny0



Thus znx0+iy0 proving that zn converges.



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