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Does pointwise convergence mean that |$f_{n}$-$f$|->0 for each x?
Yes. More precisely, it means that for each $x$ (in some specified domain) $|f_n(x) - f(x)| \to0$ as $n\to\infty$.Fermat said:Does pointwise convergence mean that |$f_{n}$-$f$|->0 for each x?
Fermat said:Does pointwise convergence mean that |$f_{n}$-$f$|->0 for each x?
Pointwise convergence is a type of convergence in which a sequence of functions, denoted as fn, converges to a limit function f at every point x. In other words, for any fixed value of x, as n approaches infinity, the values of fn(x) get closer and closer to the value of f(x).
When a sequence of functions fn converges to 0, it means that the limit function f(x) is equal to 0 at every point x. This means that as n approaches infinity, the values of fn(x) get closer and closer to 0 for all values of x.
No, pointwise convergence and uniform convergence are two different types of convergence. Pointwise convergence focuses on the behavior of a sequence of functions at each individual point, while uniform convergence looks at the overall behavior of the sequence as a whole.
A function f is continuous at a point x if and only if the sequence of functions fn converges to f at x. In other words, if a sequence of functions is pointwise convergent to a limit function f at every point x, then f is continuous at x.
In order to prove pointwise convergence, we need to show that for every point x, as n approaches infinity, the values of fn(x) get closer and closer to the value of f(x). This can be done by using the epsilon-delta definition of a limit and showing that for any given epsilon, there exists a corresponding delta such that if |x-x0| < delta, then |fn(x)-f(x)| < epsilon.