Tuesday, 7 November 2017

calculus - A function f:mathbbR+mathbbR satisfies the condition f(ab)=f(a)+f(b) for a,b>0. prove that f is continuous on mathbbR+.



A function f:R+R satisfies the condition f(ab)=f(a)+f(b) for a,b>0. If f(x) is continuous at x=1, then prove that f is continuous on R+.



Attempt:



I have proved f(1)=0, f(1/c)=f(c),  c>0.



Consider a sequence {xn} in R+ converges to c>0, then lim




how to proceed further to use sequential criterion of continuity to prove that f is continuous on \mathbb{R^+}.




My aim is to use sequential criterion of continuity x_n\to c and f(x_n)\to f(c) implies f is continuous.




Please help.


Answer



Using your desired approach, we have by conditinuity of scalar multiplication that x_n/c\to c/c=1. So, as f is continuous at 1 by hypothesis, we have, as you wrote,
\lim_{n\to \infty}f(x_n)=\lim_{n\to \infty}f\left(\frac{x_n}{c}c\right)=\lim_{n\to \infty}f\left(\frac{x_n}{c}\right)+\lim_{n\to \infty}f(c)=f(1)+f(c)=f(c) (as f (1)=f(1\cdot 1)=f(1)+f(1) implies f(1)=0)
and so f is continuous at c as for any sequence \{x_n\} converging to c, we have that f(x_n)\to f(c).


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