Paper 4, Section II, E

Analysis II | Part IB, 2012

State and prove the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}. [You may assume the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem in R\mathbb{R}.]

Let XRnX \subset \mathbb{R}^{n} be a subset and let f:XXf: X \rightarrow X be a mapping such that d(f(x),f(y))=d(x,y)d(f(x), f(y))=d(x, y) for all x,yXx, y \in X, where dd is the Euclidean distance in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}. Prove that if XX is closed and bounded, then ff is a bijection. Is this result still true if we drop the boundedness assumption on XX ? Justify your answer.

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