Paper 4, Section I, F

Analysis II | Part IB, 2018

State the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem in R\mathbb{R}. Use it to deduce the BolzanoWeierstrass theorem in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}.

Let DD be a closed, bounded subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, and let f:DRf: D \rightarrow \mathbb{R} be a function. Let S\mathcal{S} be the set of points in DD where ff is discontinuous. For ρ>0\rho>0 and zRnz \in \mathbb{R}^{n}, let Bρ(z)B_{\rho}(z) denote the ball {xRn:xz<ρ}\left\{x \in \mathbb{R}^{n}:\|x-z\|<\rho\right\}. Prove that for every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there exists δ>0\delta>0 such that f(x)f(y)<ϵ|f(x)-f(y)|<\epsilon whenever xD,yD\zSBϵ(z)x \in D, y \in D \backslash \cup_{z \in \mathcal{S}} B_{\epsilon}(z) and xy<δ\|x-y\|<\delta.

(If you use the fact that a continuous function on a compact metric space is uniformly continuous, you must prove it.)

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