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Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Walter Rudin

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  • Exercise 3.24 (the one that's really long and hard)

    Good old Baby Rudin.

    Exercise 3.24 (the one that's really long and hard)

    Let X be a metric space.

    a. Call two Cauchy sequences {pn},{qn} in X equivalent if limnd(pn,qn)=0. Prove that this is an equivalence relation.

    b. Let X be the set of all equivalence classes so obtained. If P,QX, {pn}P, {qn}Q, define Δ(P,Q)=limnd(pn,qn).

    1. Show that this limit exists for any {pn} and {qn}.

    2. Show that Δ is well-defined.

    c. Prove that (X,Δ) is a complete metric space.

    d. For each pX, there is a Cauchy sequence all of whose terms are p. Let Pp be the element of X containing this sequence. Prove that Δ(Pp,Pq)=d(p,q) for all p,qX. In other words, the mapping φ defined by φ(p)=Pp is an isometry taking X into X.

    e. Prove that φ(X) is dense in X, and that φ(X)=X if X is complete. By (d), we may identify X and φ(X) and thus regard X as embedded in the complete metric space X. We call X the completion of X.