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Uniform continuity

Charles队长 · Bilibili · 0:19

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01Quantifiers for uniform continuity
02A global bound for sine
03A counterexample pair for the reciprocal

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\forall\varepsilon>0\ \exists\delta>0\ \forall x,y\in D:\ |x-y|<\delta\Rightarrow |f(x)-f(y)|<\varepsilon

Quantifiers for uniform continuity

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This video uses animation to contrast the functions $f(x) = \sin (x)$ and $g(x) = 1/x$ , visually demonstrating the geometric meaning of "uniform continuity" versus "non-uniform continuity." The sine curve on the left allows finding a uniform δ for any given ε band; whereas the inverse proportional function on the right fails this condition near $x=0$ , where arbitrarily small intervals in x produce large variations in y that exceed fixed ε bands.

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0:00Introduction: Graphs of two functions 0:04Dynamic Demonstration: Relationship between epsilon and delta 0:15Conclusion Summary

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The two graphs compare sine with the reciprocal function on the positive half-line. Continuity can choose a neighborhood separately at each point. Uniform continuity requires one δ for every pair of points in the specified domain, after ε is given.

Sine satisfies $|\sin x-\sin y|\le|x-y|$ . Choosing $δ=ε$ therefore works everywhere on the real line, independent of the moving sample location.

For the reciprocal, take $x_n=1/n$ and $y_n=1/(n+1)$ . Their distance tends to zero, but their reciprocal values differ by one. Thus $1/x$ fails uniform continuity on (0, $\infty$ ), despite being continuous there.

The domain matters: restricting the reciprocal to [a,b] with $a>0$ restores uniform continuity. The moving windows illustrate the quantifiers; a finite animation is not a proof for all point pairs.

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Quantifiers for uniform continuity

δ may depend on ε but cannot depend on location. Both points belong to the specified domain.

\forall\varepsilon>0\ \exists\delta>0\ \forall x,y\in D:\ |x-y|<\delta\Rightarrow |f(x)-f(y)|<\varepsilon

A global bound for sine

The mean value theorem and |cos|≤1 give a global Lipschitz bound, hence uniform continuity on the real line.

|\sin x-\sin y|\le |x-y|

A counterexample pair for the reciprocal

The input distance tends to zero while the output distance remains one. The reciprocal fails on the positive half-line but is uniformly continuous on a closed interval bounded away from zero.

\left|\frac1n-\frac1{n+1}\right|\to0,\quad|n-(n+1)|=1

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Uniform continuity chooses δ from ε independently of location, with both inputs in the specified domain. Sine has a global bound from |cos x|≤1. The reciprocal fails on the positive half-line near zero but is uniformly continuous on closed intervals bounded away from zero; the domain is essential.

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