Saturday, 19 November 2016

real analysis - Showing that a function is uniformly continuous but not Lipschitz

If g(x):=x for x[0,1], show that there does not exist a constant K such that |g(x)|K|x| x[0,1]



Conclude that the uniformly continuous function g is not a Lipschitz function on interval [0,1].



Necessary definitions:



Let AR. A function f:AR is uniformly continuous when:
Given ϵ>0 and uA there is a δ(ϵ,u)>0 such that xA and |xu|<δ(ϵ,u) |f(x)f(u)|<ϵ




A function f is considered Lipschitz if a constant K>0 such that x,uA |f(x)f(u)|K|xu|.



Here is the beginning of my proof, I am having some difficulty showing that such a constant does not exist. Intuitively it makes sense however showing this geometrically evades me.



Proof (attempt):



Suppose g(x):=x for x in[0,1]
Assume g(x) is Lipschitz. g(x) Lipschitz constant K>0 such that |f(x)f(u)|K|xu| x,u[0,1].




Evaluating geometrically:



|f(x)f(u)||xu| = x1|xu| K



I was hoping to assume the function is Lipschitz and encounter a contradiction however this is where I'm stuck.



Can anyone nudge me in the right direction?

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