Unbounded functional

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March 28th 2011, 11:12 PM
raed

Unbounded functional

Dear Colleagues,

Could you please help me to solve the following problem:

The space $C^{1}[a,b]$ is the subspace of $C[a,b]$ consists of all continuously differentiable functions. Let $f$ be a functional defined on $C^{1}[a,b]$ given by $f(x)=x^{'}(c),c=(a+b)/2$ where $x\in C^{1}[a,b]$ . Prove that $f$ is not bounded.

Regards,

Raed.
March 28th 2011, 11:27 PM
Drexel28

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Originally Posted by raed

Dear Colleagues,

Could you please help me to solve the following problem:

The space $C^{1}[a,b]$ is the subspace of $C[a,b]$ consists of all continuously differentiable functions. Let $f$ be a functional defined on $C^{1}[a,b]$ given by $f(x)=x^{'}(c),c=(a+b)/2$ where $x\in C^{1}[a,b]$ . Prove that $f$ is not bounded.

Regards,

Raed.

I think you can do this on your own. Think about it, what if you created your function to be such that for every $\varepsilon>0$ you create a function $f_\varepsilon\in C^1[a,b]$ such that $\displaystyle f'_\varepsilon\left(\frac{a+b}{2}\right)=\frac{1}{ \varepsilon}$
March 29th 2011, 03:07 AM
raed

Thank you very much.

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