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We now discuss pointwise and norm convergence of vectors. Other types of convergence also exist, and one in particular, uniform convergence , can also be studied. For this discussion , we will assumethat the vectors belong to a normed vector space .
A sequence converges pointwise to the limit if each element of converges to the corresponding element in . Below are few examples to try and help illustrate this idea.
First we find the following limits for our two 's: Therefore we have the following, pointwise, where .
As done above, we first want to examine the limit where . Thus pointwise where for all .
The sequence converges to in norm if . Here is the norm of the corresponding vector space of 's. Intuitively this means the distance between vectors and decreases to .
For , pointwise and norm convergence are equivalent.
Assuming the above, then Thus,
We are given the following function: Then This means that, where for all .
Now,
We are given the following function: Then, where for all . Therefore, However, at , oscillates between -1 and 1, and so it does not converge. Thus, does not converge pointwise.
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