Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ib Paper 3 11E Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The function increases for , andThus implies . Applying this to the triangle inequality for a metric proves the triangle inequality for the bounded metric transform . Symmetry and nonnegativity are immediate, and exactly when , so .
Each is compact and lies inside , so the supremum norm is finite for continuous . Every summand of lies between zero and , giving absolute convergence and . Symmetry is inherited from these norms. If , all the nonnegative summands vanish, hence on every ; their union is , so everywhere. Finallyand the subadditivity already proved give the triangle inequality term by term and then after summation. Therefore . This is a weighted metric for local uniform convergence, representing the compact-open topology.
The geometric-series sum is and its remainder is . Writing , the triangle inequality givesEquality occurs at the positive real point . ThusFor every integer , split the defining sum into a finite head and its tail. Since and ,Given , choose with . For that fixed , each of the finitely many displayed norms tends to zero, so their sum is below for sufficiently large . Hence , even though convergence is not uniform on the whole open disk.