本节是另一个重要的定理:隐函数定理,隐函数表示的函数在某一点(a,b)可微的充要条件是隐函数关于因变量的导数在(a,b)点是非奇异的,并且可以显式计算出隐函数的导数。
Exercises
Exercise 1. Let be of class
; write
in the form
. Assume that
and
( a ) Show there is a function of class
defined on an open set
in
such that
for
, and
.
( b ) Find .
( c ) Discuss the problem of solving the equation for an arbitrary pair of the unknowns in terms of the third, near the point
.
Solution:
( a ) Since
by the implicit function theorem, the conclusion holds.
( b ) We have
( c ) By some easy calculation we can know that
thus the equation can be solved for
in terms of
, and for
in terms of
, however, as
the equation cannot be solved for
in terms of
.
Exercise 2. Given , of class
. Let
; suppose that
and
( a ) Show there is a function of class
defined on an open set
of
such that
for , and
.
( b ) Find .
( c ) Discuss the problem of solving the equation for an arbitrary pair of the unknowns in terms of the others, near the point
.
Solution:
( a ) Since
by the implicit function theorem, the conclusion holds.
( b ) We have
( c ) The pairs that cannot solve the equation in terms of the others, denoting
, are:
and
.
Exercise 3. Let be of class
, with
. Set
The equations and
have the solution
.
( a ) What conditions on ensure that there are
function
and
defined on an open set in
that satisfy both equations, such that
and
?
( b ) Under the conditions of (a), and assuming that , find
and
.
Solution:
( a ) We have and
, thus
thus we need .
( b ) From we have
which gives . Similarly, from
we have
which gives . Together we solve to get
.
Exercise 4. Let be of class
, with
and
, Let
be defined by the equation
( a ) Note that . Show that one can solve the equation
for
, say
, for
in a neighborhood
of
, such that
.
( b ) Find .
( c ) If and
and
at
, find
.
Solution:
( a ) Let , then
, and by the chain rule
We can see that , which satisfies the condition of the implicit function theorem.
( b ) .
( c ) We have and
this gives
from this and the expression of we have, suppose the condition of implicit funtion theorem is satisfied, that for
:
thus to calculate , we notice
, and as
is of class
, we get
at
. Let
, we have
and
Let , we have
, thus
Now
Exercise 5. Let be functions of class
. “In general”, one expects that each of the equations
and
represents a smooth surface in
, and that their intersection is a smooth curve. Show that if
satisfies both equations, and if
has rank 2 at
, then near
, one can solve these equations for two of
in terms of the third, thus representing the solution set locally as a parametrized curve.
Solution: Since has rank 2 at
, we see that at least one of
,
and
is nonzero, which means we can apply the implicit function theorem to get the result.
Exercise 6. Let be of class
; suppose that
and that
has rank
. Show that if
is a point of
sufficiently close to
, then the equation
has a solution.
Solution: Since has rank
, we can find
columns of
to be linearly independent, we assume the first
columns are so, and discuss the general case at last.
Let be defined as follows:
then , and
this is an matrix which is non-singular, as we assume
are linearly independent. Thus by the implicit function theorem ,there is a neighborhood
of
in
and a unique continuous function
such that
and
Now if is close enough to
such that
, we can have
, which means
.
Finally, in the general case, for any columns of
which are linearly independent, which means there are
columns remaining, we substitute
with the corresponding
column coordinate functions, and the conclusion follows.