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Monday, June 15, 2015

Limit everywhere function [Solution]

The problem was to find a function f whose limit g exists everywhere (i.e. limtxf(t)=g(x)) and f(x)=2g(x)sinx.

The key is to realize that g must continuous!

(In fact one can show that f is continuous almost everywhere, but that does not help this problem immediately).

If g is continuous then, the functional equation implies that f is too, and the result that f(x)=sinx follows easily.

To prove g is continuous at c we need to show that given an ϵ>0, there is a δ>0, such that |g(x)g(c)|<ϵx,0<|xc|<δ 

Now we have that there is some δ such that

|f(x)g(c)|<ϵ2,x,0<|xc|<δ

Also for any x1 such that 0<|x1c|<δ we have a δ1 such that |f(x)g(x1)|<ϵ2x,0<|xx1|<δ1

Thus we can find an x such that for any 0<|x1c|<δ we have the above two to be true, and hence adding them gives us that

|g(x1)g(c)|<ϵx1,0<|x1c|<δ

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