Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2020 / ib / Paper 2 / 10E / i

HereThe L1 norm and uniform norm satisfyso the identity from the $d_{\infty }$ metric to the $d_1$ metric is one-Lipschitz and therefore continuous. The two metrics do not induce the same topology on all of $C[0,1]$. Forone has $d_1(f_n,0)=1/(2n)\to 0$ but $d_{\infty }(f_n,0)=1$. Thus $d_1$ convergence need not imply uniform convergence.

A map $F:(X,d_X)\to (Y,d_Y)$ is Lipschitz continuous if there is $L<\infty$ such thatfor all $x,x^{\prime }\in X$. Evaluation at $a\in [0,1]$ is one-Lipschitz because

Choose distinct $a_0,\dots ,a_n\in [0,1]$ and defineThe Vandermonde determinant is nonzero, so $T$ is a bijection. It is one-Lipschitz for the two uniform metrics. If ${\ell }_i$ are the associated Lagrange cardinal polynomials, thenand henceThus $T^{-1}$ is also Lipschitz.

Let ${\hat{\mathcal{P}}}_n$ be the polynomials whose values lie in $[-1,1]$. Its image under $T$ lies in the bounded cube $[-1,1{]}^{n+1}$. It is closed: if $T(p_j)\to v$, then the Lipschitz inverse gives uniform convergence $p_j\to p=T^{-1}(v)$, and passing to the limit pointwise preserves $|p(x)|\le 1$. By the Heine-Borel theorem, $T({\hat{\mathcal{P}}}_n)$ is compact, and the continuous inverse carries compactness back to ${\hat{\mathcal{P}}}_n$. Therefore