Monday, 19 December 2016

calculus - Proving that an additive function f is continuous if it is continuous at a single point



Suppose that f is continuous at x0 and f satisfies f(x)+f(y)=f(x+y). Then how can we prove that f is continuous at x for all x? I seems to have problem doing anything with it. Thanks in advance.


Answer



Fix aR.



Then



limxaf(x)=limxx0f(xx0+a)=limxx0[f(x)f(x0)+f(a)]=(limxx0f(x))f(x0)+f(a)=f(x0)f(x0)+f(a)=f(a).




It follows f is continuous at a.


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