User:J D Bowen/Math710 HW1

1. Let $$A, B \ $$ be bounded, non-empty subsets of $$\mathbb{R} \ $$. Define $$A+B = \left\{{ a+b : a\in A \and b \in B }\right\} \ $$.

Suppose $$q, r \ $$ are upper bounds for $$A, B \ $$ respectively. Then for all elements $$a\in A, b \in B \ $$, we have $$a<q, b<r \ $$. We can add these two inequalities to get $$a+b <q+r \ $$, and so $$q+r \ $$ is an upper bound for $$A+B \ $$. Since $$\text{sup}(A)+\text{sup}(B) \ $$ is a sum of an upper bound for $$A \ $$ and an upper bound for $$B \ $$, it follows that it is an upper bound for $$A+B \ $$.

All that remains to be shown is that is it the least upper bound. Suppose to the contrary that $$\text{sup}(A+B) < \text{sup}(A)+\text{sup}(B) \ $$. By definition, this means we can find a positive number $$\delta \ $$ such that $$\text{sup}(A)+\text{sup}(B)-\text{sup}(A+B) > \delta \ $$.

Let $$x\in A \ $$ be such that $$\text{sup}(A)-x<\delta/4 \ $$; we know such a number exists because the alternative is that $$\forall x \in A, \text{sup}(A)-x\geq \delta/4 >0 \ $$, and so $$\text{sup}(A)-\delta/5 \ $$ would be a lower bound for the set which is less than $$\text{sup}(A) \ $$, which contradicts the definition of supremum.

Similarly, we can find $$y\in B \ $$ such that $$\text{sup}(B)-y<\delta/4 \ $$.

Then we have $$\delta<\text{sup}(A)+\text{sup}(B)-\text{sup}(A+B)<x+y+\delta/2 -\text{sup}(A+B) \ $$.

This leads to $$\text{sup}(A+B)+\delta/2 \text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$. Then there is some value $$x\in S \ $$ such that $$f(x)+g(x)>\text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$. From the definition of sup, we can be sure that for this value x, we have $$f(x)\leq \text{sup}(f), g(x)\leq\text{sup}(g) \ $$. Adding these two equations gives $$f(x)+g(x)\leq \text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$. This contradicts our equation $$f(x)+g(x)>\text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$, which we arrived at by assuming $$\text{sup}(f+g)>\text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$; therefore, this assumption is false. It must be true that $$\text{sup}(f+g)\leq\text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$.

(b)Consider the functions $$f(x)=g(x)=1, x\in S \ $$. Then $$\text{sup}(f+g)=2=\text{sup}(f)+\text{sup}(g) \ $$.

(c)Note that nowhere in our argument a did we use the assumption that f,g be non-negative. This condition was unnecessary.

3) Let $$\left\{{x_n}\right\}, \left\{{y_n}\right\} \ $$ denote sequences of real numbers, with finite limit superiors $$L_x, L_y, L_{x+y} \ $$, where the final value refers to the limit superior of $$\left\{{x_n+y_n}\right\} \ $$. This means that for any $$\epsilon >0, \exists N \ $$ such that for $$n>N \ $$, we have $$|L_x-\text{sup}_{n>N} x_n| <\epsilon>|L_y-\text{sup}_{n>N} y_n| \ $$, and $$|L_{x+y}-\text{sup}_{n>N} (x_n+y_n)| <\epsilon \ $$.

Suppose that $$\lim \text{sup} (x_n+y_n)>\lim \text{sup}(x_n)+\lim \text{sup}(y_n) \ $$. If we set $$\epsilon < \tfrac{1}{3}(S_{x+y}-S_x-S_y) \ $$, then we can find an $$N \ $$ such that

$$\text{sup}_{n>N} (x_n+y_n)> \text{sup}_{n>N}(x_n)+ \text{sup}_{n>N}(y_n) \ $$.

However, if we take our proof from 2a and set $$f(n)=x_n, g(n)=y_n, S=\left\{{n\in\mathbb{N}:n>N}\right\} \ $$, we have a demonstration that this is impossible. Therefore our assumption that $$\lim \text{sup} (x_n+y_n)>\lim \text{sup}(x_n)+\lim \text{sup}(y_n) \ $$ must be false. Hence, $$\lim \text{sup} (x_n+y_n)\leq\lim \text{sup}(x_n)+\lim \text{sup}(y_n) \ $$.

4) Let $$p\in\mathbb{N}, \left\{{a_n}\right\} \ $$ be a sequence such that $$ 0\leq a_n< p, s_n=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i p^{-i} \ $$.

If we let $$\epsilon>0 \ $$ be any positive real number, then define $$q = -\log_p ( (1-p^{-1})\epsilon) \ $$.

Observe that if $$m,n\in\mathbb{N}, m>n>q \ $$, we have

$$s_m-s_n = \sum_{i=n}^m a_i p^{-i} < \sum_{i=n}^m p^{1-i} = p \sum_{i=n}^m  p^{-i} = p \left({ \sum_{i=0}^m p^{-i} - \sum_{i=0}^n p^{-i} }\right) = p \left({ \frac{p^{-1-m}-p^{-1-n}}{p^{-1}-1} }\right) =\frac{p^{-n}-p^{-m}}{1-p^{-1}}<\frac{p^{-q}}{1-p^{-1}} \ $$

$$ =\frac{p^{\log_p( (1-p^{-1})\epsilon)}}{1-p^{-1}}= \frac{(1-p^{-1})\epsilon}{1-p^{-1}} = \epsilon \ $$.

Hence, the sequence $$s_n \ $$ is Cauchy and therefore convergent.

5) a) Define $$a_j = \lfloor \left({ x-\sum_{i=1}^{j-1} \frac{a_i}{p^i} }\right) p^j \rfloor \ $$, where we accept the abuse of notation $$\sum_{i=1}^0 a_ip^{-i} =0 \ $$. This recursive definition allows for all $$a_n \ $$ to be computed.


 * Lemma: This will always be less than $$p \ $$.


 * Proof: Suppose to the contrary $$\exists n \ $$ such that $$a_n\geq p \ $$. Then


 * $$a_n = \lfloor \left({ x-\sum_{i=1}^{n-1} \frac{a_i}{p^i} }\right) p^n \rfloor \geq p \ $$


 * But then we can pull out the final term of the sum to get


 * $$\left({ x-\sum_{i=1}^{n-2} \frac{a_i}{p^i} }\right) p^{n-1} \geq 1+a_{n-1} \ $$


 * This left-hand side is of course just


 * $$a_{n-1}+\text{something in} \ [0,1) \geq 1+a_{n-1} \ $$


 * which is impossible.

Define $$s_n = \sum_{i=1}^n a_ip^{-i} \ $$. Since both $$a_i,p^{-i}>0 \ \forall i \ $$, this series is increasing, and bounded above by $$x \ $$ by construction: at every point in the series, we add precisely as many $$p^{-n-1} \ $$ as will fit in $$x-s_n \ $$ without going over $$x \ $$.

All that remains to be shown is that for any $$\epsilon>0, \ \exists N \in \mathbb{N} \ $$ such that $$\forall n>N, s_n>x-\epsilon \ $$. This will prove $$\left\{{s_n}\right\} \to x \ $$.

$$\sum_{i=1}^n a_ip^{-i} < x- \epsilon \ $$

b) Let $$\left\{{a_n}\right\} \ $$ be the series defined in a, and let $$b_n \ $$ be some series of integers $$0\leq b_n<p \ $$ such that $$\left\{{t_n}\right\} \to x \ $$, where $$t_n = \sum_{i=1}^n b_ip^{-i} \ $$.

We wish to show that $$a_n=b_n \forall n \ $$, unless $$x=qp^{-k} \ $$ for some $$k\in\mathbb{N} \ $$. Assume to the contrary that there are terms which do not agree and let $$b_m \ $$ be the first term of the b sequence which does not agree with the a sequence.

Now suppose that $$x=qp^{-k} \ $$ for some k. We wish to show that there are only two series which converge to x; the series $$\left\{{a_n }\right\} \ $$ as defined above, and another series we describe shortly.

Consider the series $$\left\{{a_n }\right\} \ $$ when $$x=qp^{-k} \ $$.