Definition 7.3.1. A sequence in a metric space (X, d) is a function
x : ℕ → X, written xₙ for its terms and {xₙ} for the whole sequence. It is
bounded if there exists p ∈ X and B ∈ ℝ such that dist p (xₙ) ≤ B for all
n. Equivalently, the image set {xₙ : n ∈ ℕ} is bounded. A subsequence of
{xₙ} is any sequence of the form {x_{n_k}} where n_{k+1} > n_k for all
k.
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- MetricSequence X = (ℕ → X)
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A sequence is bounded when all of its terms lie in a ball of finite radius around some point of the space.
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A bounded sequence's range lies in a closed ball.
A bounded range yields a pointwise distance bound for the sequence.
The book's notion of a bounded sequence agrees with boundedness of its range in the bornology of the metric space.
A subsequence of x is obtained by precomposing with a strictly increasing
map of indices.
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- IsMetricSubsequence y x = ∃ (n : ℕ → ℕ), StrictMono n ∧ ∀ (k : ℕ), y k = x (n k)
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Definition 7.3.2. A sequence {xₙ} in a metric space converges to a point
p if for every ε > 0 there exists M ∈ ℕ such that dist (xₙ) p < ε for
all n ≥ M. In this case p is a limit of the sequence.
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A sequence is convergent when it has a (not necessarily unique) limit.
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- MetricConvergentSequence x = ∃ (p : X), MetricConvergesTo x p
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The book's notion of convergence agrees with the usual filter convergence of sequences.
A sequence is divergent when it does not converge.
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Proposition 7.3.3. A convergent sequence in a metric space has a unique limit.
Proposition 7.3.4. A convergent sequence in a metric space is bounded.
Distances to a limit point converge to zero.
A distance bound by a sequence tending to zero forces convergence.
Proposition 7.3.5. A sequence in a metric space converges to p if and
only if there is a real sequence controlling the distances to p that itself
tends to zero.
Proposition 7.3.6. (i) A subsequence of a sequence converging to p
also converges to p. (ii) If some tail of a sequence converges to p, then
the original sequence converges to p.
Example 7.3.7. For continuous real-valued functions on a closed interval
[a, b] endowed with the uniform (supremum) norm, convergence of a sequence in
the metric space sense is the same as uniform convergence.
Proposition 7.3.9. A sequence in Euclidean space ℝⁿ converges if and
only if each coordinate sequence converges, and the limit vector has the
coordinatewise limits.
A sequence in ℝⁿ converges exactly when every coordinate sequence
converges. In this case the limit is the vector of the coordinate limits.
Convergence of complex numbers is equivalent to convergence of the real and imaginary parts.
Example 7.3.10. In the complex plane viewed as ℝ², a sequence
zₙ = xₙ + i yₙ converges to x + i y if and only if the real parts converge
to x and the imaginary parts converge to y.
Proposition 7.3.11. A sequence in a metric space converges to p exactly
when eventually all of its terms lie in every open neighborhood of p.
Proposition 7.3.12. In a metric space, a closed set contains the limit of a convergent sequence of its points.
Proposition 7.3.13. A point lies in the closure of a set in a metric space exactly when it is the limit of a sequence of points from that set.