Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ib Paper 2 10E i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
HereThe L1 norm and uniform norm satisfyso the identity from the metric to the metric is one-Lipschitz and therefore continuous. The two metrics do not induce the same topology on all of . Forone has but . Thus convergence need not imply uniform convergence.
Choose distinct and defineThe Vandermonde determinant is nonzero, so is a bijection. It is one-Lipschitz for the two uniform metrics. If are the associated Lagrange cardinal polynomials, thenand henceThus is also Lipschitz.
Let be the polynomials whose values lie in . Its image under lies in the bounded cube . It is closed: if , then the Lipschitz inverse gives uniform convergence , and passing to the limit pointwise preserves . By the Heine-Borel theorem, is compact, and the continuous inverse carries compactness back to . Therefore