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 sinnk→0. Let pk=|nk|, then sgn(nk)sinnk=sinpk→0. Pick an a∈[−1,1], we now show that a∈sinN. First of all, there is a sequence of integers {hk} such that sinhk→a. Recall the identity that sinx−siny=2cosx+y2sinx−y2, we have for each k, sin(hk+2pi)−sinhk=2cos(hk+pi)sinpi→0i→∞, 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].