Continuity and Uniform Continuity of a Uniform Limit of Real-Valued Functions
lemmaAnalysislem:uniform-limit-continuous-2026aA uniform limit of continuous real-valued functions is continuous, and a uniform limit of uniformly continuous functions is uniformly continuous; continuity at a single point requires uniform convergence only on a neighbourhood of that point.
In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let be a metric space, let , let be a sequence in the set of functions from to , and let . The codomain carries the metric of The Absolute Value Metric on the Real Line, in which , and continuity at a point relative to , continuity on and uniform continuity on are those notions for maps from to , formed with and . Pointwise convergence and uniform convergence on a subset are as defined there, read with . Then the following hold.
1. (Passing to a smaller set)¶ Let and suppose that converges uniformly to on . Then converges uniformly to on , and converges pointwise to on .
2. (Continuity at a point from uniform convergence near it)¶ Let , let be a real number with , and let be a set containing every point of the open ball that lies in . Suppose that converges uniformly to on and that is continuous at relative to for every . Then is continuous at relative to .
3. (Continuity on the whole set)¶ Suppose that converges uniformly to on and that is continuous on for every . Then is continuous on .
4. (Uniform continuity)¶ Suppose that converges uniformly to on and that is uniformly continuous on for every . Then is uniformly continuous on .
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