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Continuity and Uniform Continuity of a Uniform Limit of Real-Valued Functions

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Reason: New: a uniform limit of continuous real-valued functions on a subset of a metric space is continuous, and a uniform limit of uniformly continuous functions is uniformly continuous; continuity at a point needs uniform convergence only near that point. · 2,223 chars · 8 deps · depth 12

A 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.

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let (X,dX)(X,d_{X}) be a metric space, let AXA\subseteq X, let (fk)kN(f_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} be a sequence in the set of functions from AA to R\mathbb{R}, and let f:ARf:A\to\mathbb{R}. The codomain R\mathbb{R} carries the metric dRd_{\mathbb{R}} of The Absolute Value Metric on the Real Line, in which dR(s,t)=std_{\mathbb{R}}(s,t)=|s-t|, and continuity at a point relative to AA, continuity on AA and uniform continuity on AA are those notions for maps from AA to R\mathbb{R}, formed with dXd_{X} and dRd_{\mathbb{R}}. Pointwise convergence and uniform convergence on a subset are as defined there, read with D=AD=A. Then the following hold.

1. (Passing to a smaller set) Let TSAT\subseteq S\subseteq A and suppose that (fk)kN(f_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} converges uniformly to ff on SS. Then (fk)kN(f_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} converges uniformly to ff on TT, and converges pointwise to ff on SS.

2. (Continuity at a point from uniform convergence near it) Let xAx\in A, let rr be a real number with 0<r0<r, and let SAS\subseteq A be a set containing every point of the open ball BdX(x,r)B_{d_{X}}(x,r) that lies in AA. Suppose that (fk)kN(f_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} converges uniformly to ff on SS and that fkf_{k} is continuous at xx relative to AA for every kNk\in\mathbb{N}. Then ff is continuous at xx relative to AA.

3. (Continuity on the whole set) Suppose that (fk)kN(f_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} converges uniformly to ff on AA and that fkf_{k} is continuous on AA for every kNk\in\mathbb{N}. Then ff is continuous on AA.

4. (Uniform continuity) Suppose that (fk)kN(f_{k})_{k\in\mathbb{N}} converges uniformly to ff on AA and that fkf_{k} is uniformly continuous on AA for every kNk\in\mathbb{N}. Then ff is uniformly continuous on AA.

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