This document provides 6 practice problems for a real analysis tutorial. The problems cover various topics in metric spaces including: showing a function is continuous or uniformly continuous; properties that characterize continuous functions; connectedness of subsets of metric spaces; and uniform continuity of contraction mappings and functions between metric spaces. The document also defines a metric on the space of bounded real functions and asks to show certain functions on this space are continuous or uniformly continuous.
This document provides 6 practice problems for a real analysis tutorial. The problems cover various topics in metric spaces including: showing a function is continuous or uniformly continuous; properties that characterize continuous functions; connectedness of subsets of metric spaces; and uniform continuity of contraction mappings and functions between metric spaces. The document also defines a metric on the space of bounded real functions and asks to show certain functions on this space are continuous or uniformly continuous.
This document provides 6 practice problems for a real analysis tutorial. The problems cover various topics in metric spaces including: showing a function is continuous or uniformly continuous; properties that characterize continuous functions; connectedness of subsets of metric spaces; and uniform continuity of contraction mappings and functions between metric spaces. The document also defines a metric on the space of bounded real functions and asks to show certain functions on this space are continuous or uniformly continuous.
This document provides 6 practice problems for a real analysis tutorial. The problems cover various topics in metric spaces including: showing a function is continuous or uniformly continuous; properties that characterize continuous functions; connectedness of subsets of metric spaces; and uniform continuity of contraction mappings and functions between metric spaces. The document also defines a metric on the space of bounded real functions and asks to show certain functions on this space are continuous or uniformly continuous.
Try all problems which are not marked ‘∗ ’. They may be left as homework.
The metric on R is the usual metric, unless otherwise stated.
1. Let x0 be a point in a metric space (X, ρ). Define f : X → R by f (x) = ρ(x, x0 ). Show that f is continuous. Is f uniformly continuous?
2. ∗ Suppose that a continuous function f : R → R satisfies f (x + y) = f (x) + f (y) for all x, y ∈ R. Prove that there is m ∈ R such that f (x) = mx for all x ∈ R.
3. Let X and Y be metric spaces and A a nonempty subset of X. Let f and g be continuous functions from X into Y . If f (x) = g(x) for all x ∈ A, show that f (x) = g(x) for all x ∈ A.
4. Let X and Y be metric spaces and f : X → Y . Prove that the following are equivalent. (i) f is continuous. (ii) f −1 (G) is open in X, whenever G is open in Y . (iii) f −1 (F ) is closed in X, whenever F is closed in Y . (iv) f (A) ⊆ f (A) for every subset A of X.
5. (a) Show that composite of continuous functions on metric spaces is continuous.
(b) Let f : (X, ρ) → (Y, σ) be continuous, and x0 a point in X. Define g : X → R by
g(x) = σ(f (x), f (x0 )), x ∈ X.
(i) Show that g is continuous.
(ii) Show that if X is compact, then g is uniformly continuous. (iii) Show that if X is compact, then there is x1 ∈ X such that g(x) ≤ g(x1 ) for all x ∈ X.
6. ∗ A metric space X is said to be connected, if X has no subset other than ∅ and X which is both open and closed. (a) Show that R is connected and its subspace Q is not connected. What are the maximal connected subsets of Q? (b) Suppose f : X → Y is continuous and X is connected. Show that f (X) is connected. (c) Suppose f : R → R is continuous and f (R) ⊆ Q. What can you say about f ?
7. Show that a contraction mapping is uniformly continuous.
8. ∗ Let S be a nonempty set and X be the set of all bounded real valued functions defined on S. Let ρ : X × X → R be defined by ρ(u, v) = sup |u(s) − v(s)|. s∈S
(a) Show that ρ is a metric on X.
(b) Suppose g : Rk → R be continuous and s1 , s2 , . . . , sk ∈ S. Show that the function f : X → R defined by f (u) = g(u(s1 ), u(s2 ), . . . , u(sk )) is continuous. (c) Define functions f : X → R, g : X → R by
