So this is a question out of Real Analysis book that I'm working through, and I'm quite stuck.
Give a counterexample to one of the following four formulas for images and inverse images of sets (the other three are true)
- $f(X_1 \cup X_2) = f(X_1) \cup f(X_2$),
- $f^{-1}(Y_1 \cup Y_2) = f^{-1}(Y_1) \cup f^{-1}(Y_2)$,
- $f(X_1 \cap X_2) = f(X_1) \cap f(X_2)$,
- $f^{-1}(Y_1 \cap Y_2) = f^{-1}(Y_1) \cap f^{-1}(Y_2)$
I went through Overview of basic results about images and preimages and from other resources I can find online, all 4 of these are true... I can't figure out what I am missing.
Thanks for the help
Answer
3 is false, if F is a contant map and $X_1, X_2$ disjoint.
Exercise. Prove for 3 that the
left hand side is a subset of the right hand side.
No comments:
Post a Comment