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Work with the L1 norm on ${\mathbb{R}}^2$. The scalar Lipschitz hypothesis impliesWe may take $L\ge 0$. The compact set $S$ and continuity give a finite bound $M={\max }_S\Vert \mathbf{f}{\Vert }_1$. ChooseLet $I=[a-\eta ,a+\eta ]$. The space $C_{\eta }$ of continuous maps $I\to B_k(\mathbf{b})$ is complete in the supremum norm: it is a closed subset of the Banach space $C(I,{\mathbb{R}}^2)$. Define the Picard operator on a closed ball byFor any $\mathbf{g}\in C_{\eta }$, the integral triangle inequality givesThe integrand is continuous, so the result is continuous and remains in the prescribed closed ball. Thus $\mathcal{P}$ is a self-map of the complete space. Moreover,It is a contraction mapping. The contraction mapping theorem gives a unique fixed point $\mathbf{y}$. By the fundamental theorem of calculus, the fixed-point identity makes $\mathbf{y}$ continuously differentiable and gives ${\mathbf{y}}^{\prime }=\mathbf{f}(x,\mathbf{y})$ and $\mathbf{y}(a)=\mathbf{b}$. Its first component is twice continuously differentiable, because its derivative is the second component.

Conversely, integrating any solution that remains in the ball makes it a fixed point, so it equals $\mathbf{y}$. A solution starting at $\mathbf{b}$ cannot first reach the boundary of this ball during $I$: before such an exit the same estimate gives distance at most $\eta M<k$, contradicting distance $k$ at the first exit. This proves existence and uniqueness on $|x-a|\le \eta$, not merely formal convergence of an iteration. It is the local Picard-Lindelöf theorem construction.