Sunday, 22 June 2014

real analysis - Uniform continuous functions on bounded sets are Lipschitz?



I'm trying to prove the following:





if f:ER where E is a bounded subset of R, and f is uniformly continuous then there exists K such that
|f(x)f(y)|K|xy|
for all x,yE




now I have written down this proof which I'm unsure of:



Assume for a contradiction that for all nZ there exists xn,ynE such that |f(xn)f(yn)|n|xnyn|

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|ynkxnk| but this does not imply that |f(ynk)f(xnk)|. We have |ynkxnk|0 so nk|ynkxnk| need not go to .


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