Paper 3, Section I, G

Analysis II | Part IB, 2017

What does it mean to say that a metric space is complete? Which of the following metric spaces are complete? Briefly justify your answers.

(i) [0,1][0,1] with the Euclidean metric.

(ii) Q\mathbb{Q} with the Euclidean metric.

(iii) The subset

{(0,0)}{(x,sin(1/x))x>0}R2\{(0,0)\} \cup\{(x, \sin (1 / x)) \mid x>0\} \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}

with the metric induced from the Euclidean metric on R2\mathbb{R}^{2}.

Write down a metric on R\mathbb{R} with respect to which R\mathbb{R} is not complete, justifying your answer.

[You may assume throughout that R\mathbb{R} is complete with respect to the Euclidean metric.

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