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Yes. The arbitrary variable-lag condition forces the Cauchy sequence property. Suppose otherwise. Then some ${\epsilon }_0>0$ has the property that, for every $N$, there exist $p,q\ge N$ with $|a_p-a_q|\ge {\epsilon }_0$. In particular, for each $n$, choose such $p,q\ge n$. By the triangle inequality, at least one satisfies $|a_p-a_n|\ge {\epsilon }_0/2$ or $|a_q-a_n|\ge {\epsilon }_0/2$. That index must be strictly greater than $n$, since the difference at $n$ itself is zero.

It follows that the following positive integer is defined for every $n$:For this particular function, $|a_{n+f(n)}-a_n|\ge {\epsilon }_0/2$ for every $n$, contradicting the assumed limit zero. Therefore $(a_n)$ is a Cauchy sequence, and the completeness of the real numbers proves it converges to a finite real limit. This is convergence from arbitrary variable-lag increments; the quantifier over every function is much stronger than the fixed-lag condition in the previous part.

The Riemannian distance on a connected manifold iswhere the infimum is over piecewise smooth curves joining $p$ to $q$. A connected manifold is path connected, so this infimum is finite. The metric is positive definite and induces the manifold topology; locally this follows from comparison with the Euclidean metric in a coordinate chart.

Geodesic completeness means that every geodesic with prescribed initial point and velocity extends to all parameter values in $\mathbb{R}$. The Hopf-Rinow theorem says that, for a connected finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold without boundary, this is equivalent to completeness of the distance metric and equivalent to compactness of every closed bounded set. It is also equivalent to the exponential map at one, and hence every, point being defined on the whole tangent space. Under these equivalent conditions, any two points are joined by a distance-minimizing geodesic.

A homogeneous Riemannian manifold has an isometry group acting transitively on its points. Fix $o\in M$. Local compactness and the local metric-topology comparison give an $r>0$ such that $\overline{B}(o,r)$ is compact: choose a relatively compact coordinate neighborhood of $o$, then a small closed metric ball contained in it. Homogeneity makes $\overline{B}(p,r)$ isometric to this fixed compact ball for every $p\in M$.

Let $(p_j)$ be a Cauchy sequence. Its tail lies inside $\overline{B}(p_N,r)$ for some $N$. Compactness gives a convergent subsequence, and the Cauchy property forces the whole sequence to converge to the same limit. Thus the distance metric is complete. Hopf-Rinow now gives every homogeneous Riemannian manifold is geodesically complete. This is the completeness of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds; the compact ball used here is local and does not presuppose global completeness.

A two-point homogeneous Riemannian manifold has isometries acting transitively on ordered pairs at each fixed distance. We prove the unit tangent transitivity characterizes two-point homogeneity equivalence. First suppose two-point homogeneity holds. Applying it to pairs with identical endpoints gives ordinary homogeneity. Given $p,q$ and unit tangent vectors $u,v$, choose $a>0$ sufficiently small that $au$ and $av$ lie in normal neighbourhoods at $p$ and $q$. The Gauss lemma and local minimizing property giveThere is therefore an isometry $f$ taking these ordered pairs to one another. Isometries preserve the Levi-Civita connection and geodesics, soBoth vectors on the right lie in the injectivity neighborhood of ${\exp }_q$, because $d{f}_p$ preserves length. It follows that $d{f}_{p}u=v$. Thus isometries act transitively on the unit tangent bundle.

Conversely, suppose the stated transitivity on unit tangent vectors holds. In positive dimension it implies point homogeneity, and hence completeness by the preceding argument. Consider two ordered pairs at the same distance $a>0$. Hopf-Rinow supplies unit-speed minimizing geodesics ${\gamma }_1,{\gamma }_2:[0,a]\to M$ joining their respective endpoints. Choose an isometry taking ${\gamma }_1(0)$ to ${\gamma }_2(0)$ and ${\dot{\gamma }}_1(0)$ to ${\dot{\gamma }}_2(0)$. Then $f\circ {\gamma }_1$ and ${\gamma }_2$ solve the same geodesic initial-value problem, so they agree throughout $[0,a]$. In particular $f$ takes both endpoints of the first pair to those of the second. For $a=0$, point homogeneity suffices. If the connected manifold has dimension zero, it is a single point and both properties are immediate. Hence two-point homogeneity is equivalent to transitivity on unit tangent vectors. Completeness is the step allowing the local initial-direction condition to control pairs at arbitrary distance.

Take the formal Laurent series field $K=\mathbb{C}((T))$, with $v_T$ the least exponent of a nonzero term and $|x|=2^{-v_T(x)}$. Its value group is $\mathbb{Z}$, so this is a discrete valuation. A Cauchy sequence has an eventually stable coefficient at every exponent, and its tail has a common lower bound on its exponents. The stabilized coefficients therefore give a formal Laurent series field element to which the sequence converges. Hence $K$ is complete.

Its valuation ring is $\mathbb{C}[[T]]$, and its residue field is the infinite field $\mathbb{C}$. If $K$ were locally compact, the previous compact-ball argument would make $\mathbb{C}[[T]]$ compact. Its quotient by the open ideal $T\mathbb{C}[[T]]$ would then be compact and discrete, hence finite, contradicting its identification with $\mathbb{C}$. Thus $\boxed{\mathbb{C}((T))\text{ is complete and discretely valued but not locally compact}}$.

Write $\mathcal{O}=\{x:|x|\le 1\}$. First, $\mathcal{O}$ is compact. A compact neighborhood of zero contains a sufficiently small closed ball $t^m\mathcal{O}$, since $|t{|}^m\to 0$; that ball is closed in the compact neighborhood. Scaling back proves compactness of $\mathcal{O}$. Also $K$ is complete: a Cauchy sequence has a tail in a translate of a compact neighborhood, hence a convergent subsequence, and the Cauchy condition makes the whole sequence converge. This is the completeness of locally compact nontrivially valued fields argument.

The additive subgroup $t\mathcal{O}$ is open: a sufficiently small ball around any of its points stays in $t\mathcal{O}$ by the ultrametric inequality. Thus the compact discrete quotient $\mathcal{O}/t\mathcal{O}$ is finite. Choose a set $A\subset \mathcal{O}$ of representatives, with zero representing the zero coset. For $x\in \mathcal{O}$, recursively choose $a_n\in A$ and $x_{n+1}\in \mathcal{O}$ such that $x_n=a_n+t{x}_{n+1}$, beginning with $x_0=x$. ThenFor arbitrary $x\in K$, multiply first by a large power of $t$ to put it in $\mathcal{O}$, then divide the resulting expansion by that power. This gives the digit expansion with a nonuniformizer.

For uniqueness, take the first exponent $r$ at which two expansions differ. After dividing their difference by $t^r$, all the later terms belong to the closed subgroup $t\mathcal{O}$, whereas $a_r-b_r$ does not, because the representatives are distinct. The difference cannot be zero. Conversely every series with coefficients in $A$ and only finitely many nonzero negative-index terms converges by completeness and $|t|<1$. Every element therefore has a unique expansion $\boxed{x=\sum _{n\ge r}{a}_n{t}^n}$, with the harmless initial zero coefficients understood as part of the same indexed series. No assumption that $t$ is a uniformizer is needed.

The contraction mapping theorem states that a map $f$ of a nonempty complete metric space into itself, satisfying $d(fx,fy)\le qd(x,y)$ for some $0\le q<1$, has a unique fixed point. Iteration from any point converges to it; for example $d(f^{n}x,\tau (f))\le q^{n}d(x,fx)/(1-q)$.

Assume $X$ is nonempty. Its boundedness makes $\delta$ finite. Symmetry, positivity and separation follow pointwise from $d$, and taking the supremum of $d(fx,hx)\le d(fx,gx)+d(gx,hx)$ proves the triangle inequality. Hence $\delta$ is a uniform metric.

If $(f_n)$ is a Cauchy sequence in this uniform metric, each $(f_n(x))$ converges by completeness of $X$; denote its limit by $f(x)$. Given $ϵ>0$, choose $N$ so that $\delta (f_n,f_m)<ϵ$ for $n,m\ge N$. Letting $m\to \infty$ gives $d(f_n(x),f(x))\le ϵ$ for all $x$, so $f_n\to f$ uniformly. To prove continuity, fix $x$ and useChoose $N$ so the outside terms are small, then use continuity of $f_N$ for the middle term. Thus $f\in \mathrm{Maps}(X,X)$, proving completeness of the continuous-map space in the uniform metric.

The contraction subspace is not necessarily complete. On $X=[0,1]$, $f_n(x)=(1-1/n)x$, $n\ge 2$, are contraction mappings and converge to the identity by uniform convergence. Their only possible uniform limit is not a contraction, so this Cauchy sequence has no limit in $\mathcal{C}$.

Nevertheless the fixed point assignment is continuous. Fix $f\in \mathcal{C}$ with contraction constant $q_f<1$, and put $u=\tau (f)$, $v=\tau (g)$. ThenConsequently $d(\tau (f),\tau (g))\le \delta (f,g)/(1-q_f)$. This proves continuity of the fixed-point assignment at $f$ without requiring one contraction constant valid for every $g$.

Interpret the angle as the directed subspace angle defined by the infimum of projected unit vectors; it is different from the smallest angle between two subspaces. WriteConsider the bounded linear operator $T:W⟶V^{\perp }$ given by $Tw=P_{V^{\perp }}w$. Its adjoint operator, between these two Hilbert spaces, is $T^{\ast }u=P_{W}u$: for $w\in W$ and $u\in V^{\perp }$, the orthogonal projections give $⟨Tw,u⟩=⟨w,u⟩=⟨w,P_{W}u⟩$. The two positive directed subspace angle cosines yieldThe first bound makes $T$ injective and gives a closed range. Explicitly, if $T{w}_j$ converges, then $\Vert w_j-w_k\Vert \le a^{-1}\Vert T{w}_j-T{w}_k\Vert$, so $(w_j)$ is a Cauchy sequence. The closed subspace of a Hilbert space $W$ is complete, and its limit maps to the proposed range limit. The second bound gives $\ker T^{\ast }=\{0\}$. A vector $u\in V^{\perp }$ orthogonal to the range has $T^{\ast }u=0$, so it must be zero. The range is therefore dense as well as closed in $V^{\perp }$, and $T$ is onto. This is the mechanism of invertibility from lower bounds on an operator and its adjoint.

For any $f\in H$, choose the unique $w\in W$ with $Tw=P_{V^{\perp }}f$. Then $P_{V^{\perp }}(f-w)=0$, so $f-w\in V$. Moreover, if $w\in W\cap V$, then $Tw=0$ and hence $w=0$. Every vector has a unique decomposition, andThe direct sum is a topological one as well: the component $w=T^{-1}{P}_{V^{\perp }}f$ depends boundedly on $f$, with operator norm at most $a^{-1}$.

For precision, the quoted equality of the norms of complementary oblique projections needs both summands nonzero. For example, with $H=\mathbb{R}$, $V=H$ and $W=\{0\}$, the oblique projection is $I$, so $\Vert I\Vert =1$ but $\Vert I-I\Vert =0$. The secant function has value one here, so the second equality in the quoted formula fails. With nonzero complementary summands its intended version is valid. The proof above does not use that formula. The angle itself is undefined on a zero source space because it has no unit vectors; expressing the hypotheses as the two lower bounds handles zero spaces without ambiguity.

A metric space is complete if every Cauchy sequence in it converges to a point of that space. The stated shrinking-set characterization is the Cantor intersection theorem together with its converse.

First assume completeness, and choose $x_n\in A_n$. If $m,n\ge N$, then both points belong to $A_N$, so $d(x_m,x_n)\le \mathrm{diam}(A_N)$. The vanishing diameters imply that $(x_n)$ is a Cauchy sequence, hence it converges to some $x\in X$. For every fixed $N$, its tail belongs to the closed set $A_N$, so $x\in A_N$. Thus $x\in {\bigcap }_N{A}_N$. In fact the intersection contains only one point, since any two of its points have distance at most every diameter.

Conversely assume the stated intersection property and let $(x_n)$ be a Cauchy sequence. PutThese closures are nonempty, closed and nested. Taking a closure does not increase the diameter: approximate two points of the closure by points of the set and use continuity of distance. The Cauchy sequence therefore makes $\mathrm{diam}(A_N)\to 0$. Choose $x$ in the intersection. For $n\ge N$, both $x_n$ and $x$ belong to $A_N$, and $d(x_n,x)\le \mathrm{diam}(A_N)\to 0$. Every Cauchy sequence converges in $X$, proving completeness.