Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2017/prelims/mathematics-ii/1/a/i/solution

Put . For every , , hence , so is a lower bound of . If is any lower bound of , then for every , making an upper bound of . The definition of supremum gives , or . Thus is the greatest lower bound, and

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