Exercise 10.3.1. Prove Proposition 10.3.1.
Proposition 10.3.1 Let be a subset of
, let
be a limit point of
, and let
be a function. If
is monotone increasing and
is differentiable at
, then
. If
is monotone decreasing and
is differentiable at
, then
.
Solution: Since is differentiable at
, we have
If is monotone increasing, then we have
Thus in both and
we shall have
The case when is monotone decreasing can be similarly proved.
Exercise 10.3.2. Give an example of a function which is continuous and monotone increasing, but which is not differentiable at 0. Explain why this does not contradict Proposition 10.3.1.
Solution: Define
This does not contradict Proposition 10.3.1 since Proposition 10.3.1 requires to be differentiable at the point (0 in this case).
Exercise 10.3.3. Give an example of a function which is strictly monotone increasing and differentiable, but whose derivative at 0 is zero. Explain why this does not contradict Proposition 10.3.3.
Solution: Define
Then is differentiable at 0,
, but
is monotone increasing.
This doesn’t contradict Proposition 10.3.1 since is a necessary but not sufficient condition for
to be strictly monotone increasing.
Exercise 10.3.4. Prove Proposition 10.3.3.
Proposition 10.3.3. Let , and let
be a differentiable function. If
for all
, then
is strictly monotone increasing. If
for all
, then
is strictly monotone decreasing.If
for all
, then
is a constant function.
Solution: For any , without loss of generality we can suppose
, then
is continuous and differentiable on
, thus by mean value theorem, we can find a
such that
If , then
and
, so
is strictly monotone increasing.
If , then
and
, so
is strictly monotone decreasing.
If , then
and
, so
is a constant function.
Exercise 10.3.5. Give an example of a subset and a function
which is differentiable on
, is such that
for all
, but
is not strictly monotone increasing.
Solution: Define
Then if , then
is differentiable on
and
, but we have
, thus
in not strictly monotone increasing.
The key condition which is different from Proposition 10.3.3 is that is allowed to be a disconnected set.