Proof of Uniform Convergence, Continuity, Parity and Derivatives of Sine and Cosine
theoremthm:sine-cosine-calculus-2026aUniform convergence comes from the Weierstrass M-test with the trigonometric majorants; continuity follows from the local uniform-limit lemma on with ; the derivatives are obtained by termwise integration of the series against the fundamental theorem of calculus, the cosine case using the index shift.
Each result cited below is universally quantified over the data in its own statement; it is applied to the data named at the point of use. Write for the successor map of the natural numbers, so that for by Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §powers, and write for the function from to with . The families and of the statement are sequences in the set of functions from to . Write for the two functions named in clause 1 of the statement, and , and , for the partial sums of and of , so that and ; by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §cosine and The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §sine the series and converge, with sums and , for every . Every subset of carries the metric , and every point of the interval is an interior point of it by Basic Facts about Intervals of the Real Line and Their Interior Points §whole-line. Constant multiples, sums and products of functions are formed pointwise, as in the statements of Continuity of Sums and Products of Real-Valued Functions on a Metric Space and Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives. Those two items state their hypotheses for a pair of functions; in every application below in which only one function is named, the second function required by their hypotheses is taken to be that same function, so that the hypotheses are met and the conclusions drawn about a constant multiple, and about a constant function, are available. Natural numbers occur below both as exponents and as elements of ; in the latter role they are always read through the canonical map. Finally, denotes the natural number .
Claim 0 (a cancellation identity). Let be nonzero real numbers. Then and .
That is claim 3 of Zero Products and Elementary Identities in a Field, read contrapositively. Using commutativity and associativity of multiplication in the field ,
Hence , and multiplying both sides by gives .
Claim 1 (absolute values of the terms). For every and every ,
By claim 1 of Elementary Arithmetic in an Ordered Field one has , so by Absolute Value in an Ordered Field, and claim 2 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field gives ; hence , using from Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §powers and claim 2 of Properties of Natural Number Powers in a Field. The factorials and are positive, hence nonzero and invertible, by Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §factorial; for a positive real one has by Absolute Value in an Ordered Field, and claim 4 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field gives , whence . Applying claim 4 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field twice more, together with , yields the two identities.
Claim 2 (clause 1 of the statement). Let be a positive real number.
Since , claim 4 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field gives , and , so claim 2 of that lemma gives ; thus is the closed interval determined by and , and it is an interval by Basic Facts about Intervals of the Real Line and Their Interior Points §closed-interval.
Let , that is . By claim 6 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field this gives , and by claim 1 of that lemma. Hence claim 5 of Properties of Natural Number Powers in a Field gives for every . The inverse of the positive number is positive by claim 7 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field, hence nonnegative, so claim 5 of Elementary Arithmetic in an Ordered Field gives
which with Claim 1 gives ; in the same way .
Put and for . Since gives , Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §trigonometric, applied with , gives and for every , and the convergence of and of ; these are the two infinite series appearing in the tail bounds of clause 1.
Now apply The Weierstrass M-Test with , , the sequence , the majorant sequence and the function . Its hypotheses hold: , the series converges, for every and every as just shown, and for every by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §cosine, hence in particular for every . Clause The Weierstrass M-Test §uniform gives that converges uniformly to on , and clause The Weierstrass M-Test §tail gives
for every and every ; since , this is the first tail bound. The same argument with the sequence , the majorants and the function , using The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §sine, gives the remaining assertions of clause 1.
Claim 3 (the terms and the partial sums are continuous on ). Let . By Continuity of the Identity Map, of Powers, and of Polynomial Functions on a Subset of the Real Line §powers, applied with and the exponent , the map is continuous on . The function is the constant multiple of that map by the real number , hence continuous on by claims 4 and 5 of Continuity of Sums and Products of Real-Valued Functions on a Metric Space, applied with , and both of the functions named there taken to be that power map. The same argument with the exponent shows that is continuous on .
By Series of Real-Valued Functions and Their Partial Sums §partial-sums, for . Claim 1 of Properties of Finite Sums gives and , so and as functions on . Since is continuous on , and since claims 2 and 5 of Continuity of Sums and Products of Real-Valued Functions on a Metric Space show that is continuous on whenever is, the principle of induction, applied to the set of those for which is continuous on , gives that is continuous on for every . The same argument applies to .
Claim 4 (clause 2 of the statement). Let and put .
By claim 1 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field, , and by claim 6 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field; claim 3 of that lemma, applied with and , gives , so is positive.
The ball of radius about lies in . Let belong to the open ball , that is . By claim 5 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field, . Since we have , hence by claim 3 of Elementary Arithmetic in an Ordered Field; as
that same claim gives . Writing and , both nonnegative by claim 3 of Elementary Arithmetic in an Ordered Field, claim 2 of that lemma gives , so by claim 3 again. By claim 6 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field this means , that is . Thus contains every point of that lies in .
Continuity. By Claim 2, applied with this , the series converges uniformly to on , which by Series of Real-Valued Functions and Their Partial Sums §uniform says that converges uniformly to on . By Claim 3 each is continuous at relative to . Apply Continuity and Uniform Continuity of a Uniform Limit of Real-Valued Functions §local with , , the sequence , the function , the point , the radius and the set : it gives that is continuous at relative to . In the same way, using the sequence and the function , the function is continuous at relative to .
Since , where is the function on with constant value , claims 1 and 2 of Continuity of Sums and Products of Real-Valued Functions on a Metric Space show that is continuous at relative to . Since and is continuous on by Continuity of the Identity Map, of Powers, and of Polynomial Functions on a Subset of the Real Line §identity, claim 2 of Continuity of Sums and Products of Real-Valued Functions on a Metric Space shows that is continuous at relative to . As was arbitrary, , , and are continuous on , which is clause 2.
Claim 5 (clause 3 of the statement). By claim 4 of Properties of Natural Number Powers in a Field, for every , so claim 1 of Zero Products and Elementary Identities in a Field gives and, in the same way, , for every .
By claim 1 of Properties of Finite Sums, and , so the principle of induction, applied to the set of those with , gives for every . The sequence is therefore constant with value and converges to by Constant Sequences and Index-Shifted Sequences of Real Numbers §constant; by Series of Real Numbers §convergent this says . Hence by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §cosine. The same argument with gives and, by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §sine, .
Claim 6 (clause 4 of the statement). Let and . By Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §powers, and ; hence , and claim 2 of Zero Products and Elementary Identities in a Field gives .
The sequences and are equal, so the series and have the same sum, and The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §cosine gives
The series converges by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §sine. Apply Elementary Properties of Series of Real Numbers §linearity with to the sequence , taking the companion sequence named in that clause to be itself, whose series converges: the series converges with sum . Hence
Claim 7 (antiderivatives of the terms). Let and , and write for the constant multiple of by . Then is differentiable at with derivative , and is differentiable at with derivative .
First assertion. Since , claim 1 of Derivative of a Polynomial Function on the Real Line, applied with and , gives that the map is differentiable at with derivative , the factor being read in through the canonical map. The factorial is positive, hence nonzero, by Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §factorial, and is the constant multiple of that map by ; so claim 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives, applied on the interval at its interior point with both of the functions named there taken to be that power map, gives that is differentiable at with derivative
By Recursion for the Factorial of a Natural Number §recursion, applied with , one has ; the canonical image of is positive, hence nonzero, by claim 3 of Properties of the Canonical Map from the Natural Numbers to an Ordered Field, and is nonzero. Since multiplication in is commutative, , so Claim 0, applied with and , gives , so the displayed derivative equals .
Second assertion. Write . We first check that . By Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §powers, applied to the natural number , one has ; by claims 3 and 4 of Arithmetic of Addition on the Natural Numbers, addition on being associative and commutative, ; and by Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §powers. Hence, associating once more,
By claim 1 of Arithmetic of Addition on the Natural Numbers, and . Hence claim 1 of Properties of Natural Number Powers in a Field gives , so claim 2 of Zero Products and Elementary Identities in a Field gives
Claim 1 of Derivative of a Polynomial Function on the Real Line, applied with and , gives that is differentiable at with derivative , the factor again read in through the canonical map; so claim 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives, with both of the functions named there taken to be that power map, gives that is differentiable at with derivative . By Recursion for the Factorial of a Natural Number §recursion, applied with , one has , which by commutativity is ; both factors are nonzero, the first by Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §factorial and the second by claim 3 of Properties of the Canonical Map from the Natural Numbers to an Ordered Field, so Claim 0 with and gives . Since , the derivative equals .
Claim 8 (termwise integration). Let be a positive real number, let , and let with . Write for the Riemann integral on of the restriction of a function to , which exists whenever that restriction is continuous on , by A Continuous Function on a Closed Interval is Riemann Integrable §integrable. Then
Put . Since and , Basic Facts about Intervals of the Real Line and Their Interior Points §closed-subinterval gives , and by Basic Facts about Intervals of the Real Line and Their Interior Points §closed-interval is an interval every point of which strictly between and is an interior point of . By Claims 3 and 4 and claim 1 of Restriction Stability of Continuity and of the Derivative, the restrictions to of , , and are continuous on .
The first identity. By Claim 2, converges uniformly to on , so Continuity and Uniform Continuity of a Uniform Limit of Real-Valued Functions §subset, applied with , and , gives that it converges uniformly to on . The defining condition of Pointwise and Uniform Convergence of a Sequence of Real-Valued Functions §uniform constrains only the values of the functions at points of , and those values are unchanged by restriction to ; moreover the -th partial sum of takes at the value , so it is . Hence the series converges uniformly to on in the sense of Series of Real-Valued Functions and Their Partial Sums §uniform, read with .
Therefore Linearity of the Riemann Integral of Continuous Functions, and Passage to a Uniform Limit §series, applied with , the sequence and the function , gives that converges with
By Claim 7 and claim 2 of Restriction Stability of Continuity and of the Derivative, is differentiable at each point of strictly between and , with derivative there, and is continuous on ; so Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part II, on a Closed Real Interval, applied on with and , gives .
The series and converge by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §sine. By Elementary Properties of Series of Real Numbers §linearity, applied with to the sequence and with companion sequence , the series converges with sum ; the additive part of that clause, applied to the sequences and , then gives
because by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §sine. This proves the first identity.
The second identity. The same argument, with in place of , in place of , in place of , and the antiderivative of supplied by Claim 7 in place of , applies here as well. The one hypothesis that is not merely a relabelling is the continuity of the new antiderivative: is continuous on by Claim 3, applied to the natural number , hence so is by claim 4 of Continuity of Sums and Products of Real-Valued Functions on a Metric Space with both of the functions named there taken to be , and therefore the restriction of to is continuous on by claim 1 of Restriction Stability of Continuity and of the Derivative. The argument thus gives that converges with
Fix . The series converges by The Real Sine and Cosine Functions §cosine, so Shifting the Index of a Series of Real Numbers §shift, applied to the sequence , gives that converges with
Applying Elementary Properties of Series of Real Numbers §linearity exactly as above, with on the sequence and companion , gives
which is the second identity.
Claim 9 (clause 5 of the statement). Let , put , which is positive by Claim 4, and put .
Since and , claim 3 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field gives , that is ; by claim 9 of Properties of the Absolute Value in an Ordered Field this means , so is an interior point of by Basic Facts about Intervals of the Real Line and Their Interior Points §closed-interval. Moreover by the inclusion established in Claim 4.
The derivative of . By Claim 4 and claim 1 of Restriction Stability of Continuity and of the Derivative, is continuous on , so Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part I, on a Closed Real Interval, applied on with , defines by for , with by its clause 1, and gives by its clause 3 that is differentiable at with derivative .
By Claim 8, for every with ; the same identity holds at , both sides being . Hence , where is the function on with constant value . By claims 1 and 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives, applied on the interval at its interior point , the function is differentiable at with derivative .
By claim 1 of Properties of Natural Number Powers in a Field, for every , so is the restriction to of the map and is therefore differentiable at with derivative , by claim 1 of Derivative of a Polynomial Function on the Real Line applied with . Since , claim 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives gives that is differentiable at with derivative .
Finally apply Differentiability at an Interior Point is a Local Property §local, taking the interval called there to be , the interval called there to be , the function to be , and the radius to be : the hypotheses hold because is an interior point of and of and because . Hence is differentiable at with derivative .
The derivative of . By Claim 4 and claim 1 of Restriction Stability of Continuity and of the Derivative, is continuous on , so Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Part I, on a Closed Real Interval, applied on with , defines by , with , and gives that is differentiable at with derivative . By Claim 8, for every with , and the same identity holds at , both sides being . Rearranging,
where is the function on with constant value .
We compute the derivative of at . The exponent occurring in is the natural number written with , which by Iterated Powers, Factorials, and Convergence of the Series of Powers over Factorials §powers is ; and
by clauses 3 and 4 of Natural Numbers and claim 1 of Arithmetic of Addition on the Natural Numbers. Moreover by claim 1 of Properties of Natural Number Powers in a Field, and Recursion for the Factorial of a Natural Number §recursion, applied with , gives , the value being the other assertion of that lemma and the factor being read in through the canonical map. Hence for . Claim 1 of Derivative of a Polynomial Function on the Real Line, applied with and , gives that the restriction to of is differentiable at with derivative , the factor being read in through the canonical map; so claim 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives, with the constant and with both of the functions named there taken to be that restriction, gives that is differentiable at with derivative .
Applying claims 1 and 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives to the displayed decomposition of , that function is differentiable at with derivative
Since with the function on with constant value , claims 1 and 2 of Sum, Constant Multiple, and Product Rules for One-Dimensional Derivatives give that is differentiable at with derivative ; and Differentiability at an Interior Point is a Local Property §local, applied exactly as above with the function , gives that is differentiable at with derivative .
As was arbitrary, clause 5 follows, and the proof is complete.
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