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Elementary Analysis Assignment

This document contains solutions to three exercises from an elementary analysis math textbook. The first exercise proves that if a series of continuous functions converges uniformly, then their integrals can be exchanged. The second exercise shows that if a sequence of bounded functions converges uniformly, then the limit function is also bounded. The third exercise proves that there does not exist a sequence of polynomials that converges uniformly to the sine function on the real numbers.

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Elementary Analysis Assignment

This document contains solutions to three exercises from an elementary analysis math textbook. The first exercise proves that if a series of continuous functions converges uniformly, then their integrals can be exchanged. The second exercise shows that if a sequence of bounded functions converges uniformly, then the limit function is also bounded. The third exercise proves that there does not exist a sequence of polynomials that converges uniformly to the sine function on the real numbers.

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Elementary Analysis Math 140BWinter 2007

Homework answersAssignment 8; February 7, 2007


Exercise 25.12, page 191
Suppose that
k=1 gk is a series of continuous functions gk on [a, b] that converges
uniformly to g on [a, b]. Prove that
P

g(x) dx =

Z
X

k=1 a

gk (x) dx.

Solution: Use Theorem 25.2 page 185.


Z

g(x) dx =

=
=

"

gk (x) dx =

k=1

lim
n

Z
X

"

n
X
k=1

n
X

"

lim

k=1
n
X

gk (x) dx = n
lim

gk (x) dx
Z

k=1 a

gk (x) dx

k=1 a

gk (x) dx.

Exercise 25.5, page 190


Assume that fn converges uniformly to f on S and that each fn is bounded on S.
Prove that f is a bounded function on S.
Solution: For any  > 0, choose N so that |fn (x) f (x)| <  for n > N and
x S. Then for a fixed n > N and all x S,
|f (x)| |f (x) fn (x)| + |fn (x)| <  + Mn ,
where Mn = supxS |fn (x)|. Thus supxS |f (x)|  + Mn so f is bounded.
Exercise 27.3(a), page 204
Show that there does not exist a sequence of polynomials converging uniformly on
R to f (x) = sin x.
Solution: Assume that a polynomial p satisfies |p(x) sin x| < 1 for all x R.
Clearly, p cannot be a constant function. (proof: if p(x) = c, then |c 1| < 1 which
implies c = 0 and therefore | sin x| < 1 for all x, a contradiction.) But a non-constant
polynomial is unbounded. (proof: write p(x) = xn [an +an1 /x+an2 /x2 + +a0 /xn ],
with an 6= 0; then limx |p(x)| = [an + 0] = .) This contradicts the following:
|p(x)| |p(x) sin x| + | sin x| 1 + 1 = 2.

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