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    POL 502

    Problem Set 3

    Due by 9pm Eastern 10/30/2024

    1. Let f (x) = x3 .
    (a) Show that f is continuous on R.
    (b) Show that f is not uniformly continuous on R.
    (c) Show that f is uniformly continuous on any bounded subset of R.
    P∞
    2. Show that if n=1 xn converges absolutely, then any rearrangement of
    this series must converge to the same limit
    3. Consider x ∈ O, where O is an open set. Prove that if {xn } is a sequence
    converging to x, then all but a finite number of the terms of {xn } are
    contained in O.

    4. Assume K is compact and F is closed. Decide if the following sets are


    definitely compact, definitely closed, both, or neither (and provide a brief
    argument why).
    (a) K ∩ F
    (b) F C ∪ K C
    (c) K − F = {x ∈ K : x ∈
    / F}
    (d) K ∩ F C
    5. Suppose h : R → R is continuous on R and let K = {x : h(x) = 0}. Show
    that K is a closed set.

    6. Let f be a function defined on all of R, and assume there is a constant c


    such that 0 < c < 1 and

    |f (x) − f (y)| ≤ c|x − y|

    for all x, y ∈ R.

    (a) Show that f is continuous on R.

    1
    (b) Pick some point y1 ∈ R and construct the sequence

    (y1 , f (y1 ), f (f (y1 )), . . . ).

    In general, if yn+1 = f (yn ), show that the resulting sequence {yn } is


    a Cauchy sequence. Hence we may let y = lim yn .
    (c) A fixed point of the function f is an x ∈ R such that f (x) = x. Prove
    that y is the unique fixed point of f .
    (d) Finally, prove that if x is any arbitrary point in R, then the sequence
    (x, f (x), f (f (x)), ...) converges to y defined in (b).

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