Paper 1, Section II, F

Analysis II | Part IB, 2013

Define what it means for a sequence of functions kn:AR,n=1,2,k_{n}: A \rightarrow \mathbb{R}, n=1,2, \ldots, to converge uniformly on an interval ARA \subset \mathbb{R}.

By considering the functions kn(x)=sin(nx)nk_{n}(x)=\frac{\sin (n x)}{\sqrt{n}}, or otherwise, show that uniform convergence of a sequence of differentiable functions does not imply uniform convergence of their derivatives.

Now suppose kn(x)k_{n}(x) is continuously differentiable on AA for each nn, that kn(x0)k_{n}\left(x_{0}\right) converges as nn \rightarrow \infty for some x0Ax_{0} \in A, and moreover that the derivatives kn(x)k_{n}^{\prime}(x) converge uniformly on AA. Prove that kn(x)k_{n}(x) converges to a continuously differentiable function k(x)k(x) on AA, and that

k(x)=limnkn(x)k^{\prime}(x)=\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} k_{n}^{\prime}(x)

Hence, or otherwise, prove that the function

n=1xnsin(nx)n3+1\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n} \sin (n x)}{n^{3}+1}

is continuously differentiable on (1,1)(-1,1).

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