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Assignment 1
inf A = − sup(−A).
Prove that this is a metric. Which subsets of the resulting metric space are open? Which
are closed? Which are compact?
8. Is every point of every open set E ⊂ R2 a limit point of E? Answer the same question for
closed sets in R2 .
9. Check if the following set is a closed subset of R2 and provide reasons for your claim.
10. Let f be a continuous real function on a metric space X. Let Z(f ) (the zero set of f ) be the
set of all p ∈ X at which f (p) = 0. Prove that Z(f ) is closed.
11. Let f (x) and g(x) be two continuous functions from Rd to R. Also g(x) 6= 0. Is max{f (x), g(x)}
a continuous function? Provide justification.
12. Are the following sets compact: provide some arguments
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(a) A1 = [5, 10] ∪ {0}
(b) A2 = {x; x ∈ Rd , kxkα ≤ 1}
(c) A3 = {x; x ∈ Rd , Ax ≥ b}, A is invertible d × d matrix and b 6= 0
13. Plot the following subsets of R2 :
(a) kxk1 ≤ 1, x ∈ R2
(b) kxk2 ≤ 1, x ∈ R2
(c) kxk∞ ≤ 1, x ∈ R2
14. Let A be a m × n real matrix. For any x ∈ Rn , define
kxkA = kAxk2 .
Is kxkA a norm in Rm for any matrix A?. What properties of A will make k.kA a norm?
(Hint: Check when the norm becomes zero, and relate it to the Null space of the matrix.
If you have not heard of null space, it will be a good time to review basic linear algebra,
especially solutions of linear equations.)
15. Let V be a vector space. Show that the sum of two inner products on V is an inner product
on V . Is the difference of two inner products an inner product? Show that a positive multiple
of an inner product is an inner product.
16. Show that if two subspaces V and W of an inner product space are orthogonal, then they are
independent.