For , the function is differentiable at if there is a linear map such that
The linear map is unique and is the Frechet derivative . The function is continuously differentiable at if it is differentiable on a neighbourhood of and the map , with values in the space of linear maps equipped with the operator norm, is continuous at .
If is linear, then
Consequently at every . The derivative is a constant function of , hence is continuous, so every linear map is continuously differentiable everywhere.
The mean value inequality says that if the line segment lies in and
then
To prove it, put . The claim is immediate if . Otherwise set and apply the one-dimensional mean value theorem to the real-valued function
For some , the chain rule gives
as required.
Now suppose that is open and connected and that for every . Every point has an open ball contained in . The mean value inequality with shows that is constant on each such ball, so is locally constant. Fix . The level set
is nonempty and open in ; its complement is also open because is locally constant. Since is connected, . This proves the zero derivative on a connected open set result: is constant.
The inverse function theorem states that if is continuously differentiable, , and is an invertible linear map, then there are open neighbourhoods of and of such that is a bijection whose inverse is continuously differentiable.
For the curve in the question, define the continuously differentiable function
Then
The implicit function theorem, which follows from the inverse function theorem applied to , therefore gives an open interval containing , an open neighbourhood of , and a continuously differentiable, hence continuous, function such that
For an matrix , the characteristic polynomial is
The Cayley-Hamilton theorem states that .
Over , choose a basis in which is upper triangular, with diagonal entries . For the standard invariant flag ,
The factors commute, so applying their product in descending order sends successively into . Hence
which proves the theorem.
Direct expansion gives the commutator product rule:
Put . Since commutes with , repeated use of the product rule gives
By linearity, for every polynomial ,
Let and suppose . For ,
Assume inductively that
Both and are polynomials in, or commute with, , so . Apply the derivation to and multiply on the left by :
Since , this says
The induction is complete. Taking and gives
Thus is nilpotent, which is the Jacobson lemma for a commuting commutator.
Use
Stationarity gives
Putting , this becomes
and the constraint requires
The left side is strictly increasing, and solves the equation. Hence
The objective is convex and the constraint is affine. Its tangent-plane inequality at gives, for every feasible ,
so the Lagrange point is globally optimal. Moreover, at the dual value , the infimum of the Lagrangian function in constrained optimization is attained at the same point and equals three. The primal and dual values coincide, so strong duality holds.
For the value function, the multiplier convention above gives the derivative of a constrained value function
At , therefore,
A capacitor consists of two conductors carrying equal and opposite charges. Its capacitance is
where is the magnitude of the charge on either conductor and is their potential difference.
For , a coaxial Gaussian cylinder of length encloses charge . Gauss's law gives
Taking to mean the inner potential minus the outer potential,
Since ,
The field energy is
These are the standard coaxial cylindrical capacitor formulas.
The function is odd, so only sine coefficients occur. For ,
Integration by parts gives
and
The terms of order cancel, leaving
Thus
The Parseval identity gives
Direct integration yields
Therefore
as recorded in the Fourier series of x cubed minus pi squared x.
Suppose first that is connected and is continuous. Its image is connected by the continuous image of a connected space, but is discrete, so its only connected nonempty subsets are singletons. Hence is constant.
Conversely, if is a disconnection into nonempty disjoint open sets, the function equal to zero on and one on is continuous and nonconstant. This proves the integer-valued function criterion for connectedness.
Now let be continuous under the hypotheses on the family . Each restriction is constant because is connected. If , a point of shows that their two constants agree. Since the sets cover , is constant on , and the criterion proves that is connected. This is the pairwise-intersecting connected cover argument.
Finally, fix . For each , the set
is connected: its two connected pieces meet at . The sets cover and any two share . The preceding result proves that is connected, giving the product of connected spaces result.
For
the parity condition is preserved by componentwise addition, negation, and multiplication, and is the identity. Thus is a ring.
It is not an integral domain, since and are nonzero elements of whose product is zero. It is also not a product of two nontrivial rings. Indeed, an idempotent in has each coordinate in , and the parity condition leaves only and . The proved equivalence then excludes a nontrivial product decomposition.

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