I'm trying to prove the following:
if f:E→R where E is a bounded subset of R, and f is uniformly continuous then there exists K such that
|f(x)−f(y)|≤K|x−y|
for all x,y∈E
now I have written down this proof which I'm unsure of:
Assume for a contradiction that for all n∈Z there exists xn,yn∈E such that |f(xn)−f(yn)|≥n|xn−yn|
then since E is bounded there exists a convergent sub sequence {xnk} which converges to some number p, now since f is uniformly continuous {f(xnk)} converges to some number l. Thus by the triangle inequality we have that |f(ynk)−l|≥||f(ynk)−f(xnk)|−|f(xnk)−l||→∞ as k→∞ thus f is unbounded which is a contradiction.
Answer
Your main error is in the interpretation of the last formula:|f(ynk)−l|≥|f(ynk)−f(xnk)|−|f(xnk)−l|. We have |f(ynk)−f(xnk)|≥nk|ynk−xnk| but this does not imply that |f(ynk)−f(xnk)|→∞. We have |ynk−xnk|→0 so nk|ynk−xnk| need not go to ∞.
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