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Homework 8 Solutions

The document contains solutions to 6 problems regarding uniformly continuous functions and differentiability. Problem 1 proves that a bounded uniformly continuous function is bounded, and uses this to show 1/x^2 is not uniformly continuous on (0,1). Problem 2 shows Lipschitz functions are uniformly continuous. Problem 3 proves a function continuous on [0,∞) is uniformly continuous if it is uniformly continuous on [k,∞) for some k. Problem 4 applies this to show the square root function is uniformly continuous on [0,∞).

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Homework 8 Solutions

The document contains solutions to 6 problems regarding uniformly continuous functions and differentiability. Problem 1 proves that a bounded uniformly continuous function is bounded, and uses this to show 1/x^2 is not uniformly continuous on (0,1). Problem 2 shows Lipschitz functions are uniformly continuous. Problem 3 proves a function continuous on [0,∞) is uniformly continuous if it is uniformly continuous on [k,∞) for some k. Problem 4 applies this to show the square root function is uniformly continuous on [0,∞).

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Math 131A Homework 8 Solutions

Problem 1:

(a) Suppose that f is uniformly continuous on a bounded set S. Prove that f is bounded on S.
(b) Use (a) to prove that f (x) = 1/x2 is not uniformly continuous on (0, 1).
Solution:
(a) Suppose f is unbounded. Then for all n ∈ N there exists an ∈ S such that |f (an )| ≥ N . Since S
is bounded, by the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem there exists a subsequence (ank ) that is a Cauchy
sequence. Since f is uniformly continuous, f (ank ) will be a Cauchy sequence as well. Therefore it will
be bounded. However, |f (ank )| ≥ nk so it is not bounded which is a contradiction.
(b) The function 1/x2 is unbounded on (0, 1) so it cannot be uniformly continuous by (a).
Problem 2: Show that if f : X → R is Lipschitz then it is uniformly continuous on X.

Solution: Fix  > 0. Choose δ = /M . If |x − y| < δ, then

|f (x) − f (y)| ≤ M |x − y| < M δ = 

Since δ did not depend on x or y we see that f is uniformly continuous.

Problem 3: Suppose that f is continuous on [0, ∞). Prove that if f is uniformly continuous on [k, ∞) for
some k ≥ 0 then f is uniformly continuous on [0, ∞).

Solution: Fix  > 0. The function f is continuous on [0, k + 1] and therefore also uniformly continuous on
[0, k +1]. So we can choose δ1 such that for all x, y ∈ [0, k +1] with |x−y| < δ1 we have that |f (x)−f (y)| < .
Similarly we get a δ2 such that for all x, y ∈ [k, ∞) with |x − y| < δ2 we have that |f (x) − f (y)| < . Now
let δ = min{δ1 , δ2 , 1}. Then if |x − y| < δ then x and y are either in [0, k + 1] or [k, ∞) but not both. So we
can apply the above to see that |f (x) − f (y)| < .
√
Problem 4: Let f (x) = x. Prove that f is uniformly continuous on [0, ∞).

Solution: By Problem 3 it suffices to show that f is uniformly continuous on [1, ∞).

√

√ x − y |x − y|
|f (x) − f (y)| = | x − y| = √ √ ≤ .
x + y 2

So f is Lipschitz on [1, ∞) and by Problem 2 it is uniformly continuous.

Problem 6: Define f : R → R by 
0 if x ∈ Q
f (x) =
x2 if x ∈
/Q
Prove that f is differentiable at x = 0.

1
Solution: Fix  > 0. Let δ = . Then if |x| < δ, and x ∈ Q then

|f (x)|
= 0 < .
|x|

If x ∈
/ Q then
|f (x)|
= |x| < .
|x|
So f is differentiable at 0.

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