Loading [MathJax]/jax/element/mml/optable/BasicLatin.js

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Continue the work before

In this post I have proved the result that ¯sinZ=¯cosN=[1,1] by purely group theoretical approach. Since I am going to make tutorial notes for the Real Analysis class next semester, I rethink about this problem and further improve the result such that ¯sinN=[1,1], based on the findings in that post.

Now by the density we can find intergers nk such that sinnk0. Let pk=|nk|, then sgn(nk)sinnk=sinpk0. Pick an a[1,1], we now show that asinN. First of all, there is a sequence of integers {hk} such that sinhka. Recall the identity that sinxsiny=2cosx+y2sinxy2, we have for each k,  sin(hk+2pi)sinhk=2cos(hk+pi)sinpi0i, meaning that lim.

Now we are almost done, for each n\in \mathbb N, we can find an k_n such that |\sin h_{k_n} -a|<1/n. Fix this k_n, by the last limit we obtained, we can find an index  i_n such that  |\sin (h_{k_n}+2p_{i_n})-\sin h_{k_n}|<1/n and  P_n:= h_{k_n}+2p_{i_n} > 0. Hence |\sin P_n-a|\leq |\sin P_n-\sin h_{k_n}|+|\sin h_{k_n} - a|<2/n, we conclude a\in \overline{\sin \mathbb N}.

Consequence: The subsequential limits of  \{\sin n:n\in \mathbb N\} are precisely those in  [-1,1].