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Mathematical Analysis

Section 7.5 Equicontinuity

Let \(X\) be a compact metric space and let \(C(x)\) be viewed as a metric space with the metric \(d_{\infty}\text{.}\)
There is a replacement for the Heine-Borel Thm for \(C(X)\) known as Arzelá-Ascoli Thm. Definition first

Definition 7.23.

A set \(\mathcal{F}\subseteq C(x)\) is called (uniformly) equicontinuous if for all \(\varepsilon>0\) there exists a \(\delta>0\) such that for all \(x,y\in X\) and for all \(f\in\mathcal{F}\text{,}\) \(d(x,y)<\delta\implies\left|{f(x)-f(y)}\right|<\varepsilon\) (so \(\delta\) doesn't depend on \(f!\)).
We could define \(\mathcal{F}\) to be equicontinuous at \(x\in X\) if for all \(\varepsilon>0\) exists \(\delta_x>0\) such that for all \(y\in X\) and all \(f\in\mathcal{F}\text{,}\) \(d(x,y)<\delta_x\implies \left|{f(x)-f(y)}\right|<\varepsilon\text{,}\) and pointwise equicontinuous if \(\mathcal{F}\) is equicontinuous at each point in \(X\) (so \(\delta\) depends on \(x\) but not \(f\)).

Convention 7.24.

We won't need pointwise equicontinuous, sop we'll only work with uniform version and just call it equicontinuity.

Example 7.25.

If \(\mathcal{F}\) is finite, then \(\mathcal{F}\) is equicontinuous iff each \(f\in\mathcal{F}\) is uniformly continuous (take \(\delta=\min_{f\in\mathcal{F}}\delta_f\) in the notation above).
Suppose \(f_n,f:X\rightarrow\mathbb{C}\) are uniformly continuous and \(f_n\rightarrow f\) uniformly. Then \(\mathcal{F}=\{{f_n}\,:\,{n\geq 1}\}\cup\{{f}\}\) is equicontinuous.