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Boundedness does not replace pointwise relative compactness for an arbitrary metric target

Statement refuted

The pointwise-relative-compactness hypothesis in Ascoli–Arzelà cannot be weakened to pointwise boundedness for an arbitrary metric target.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The one-point discrete space X={} and the infinite set Y=N with d(m,n)=0 for m=n and d(m,n)=1 otherwise.

[L1]

The general Ascoli theorem requires pointwise relative compactness, not merely pointwise boundedness (General Ascoli theorem for locally compact Hausdorff domains and metric targets).

[L3]

A metric on a set X is a function d:X×XR such that for all x,y,zX: (M1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y; (M2) d(x,y)=d(y,x); (M3) d(x,z)d(x,y)+d(y,z) (Metric space: d(x,y)=0 iff x=y, symmetry, and the triangle inequality; pseudometric and ultrametric).

[L4]

Compact-open subbasic sets are S(K,V)={f:f[K]V} (The compact-open topology on C(X,Y) for arbitrary topological spaces).

Counterexample

technique · direct
1.1

The function d satisfies the three axioms of [L3]: (M1) holds because d(m,n)=0 was defined to mean m=n; (M2) holds because the defining cases are symmetric in m,n; and for (M3), if d(m,p)=0 the inequality is trivial, while if d(m,p)=1 then mp, so n differs from at least one of m,p and the right side is at least 1. So d is a metric. Its metric topology is discrete because B(n,1)={n}.

L2L3
1.2

Every map XY is constant. The whole family F=C(X,Y) is equicontinuous, and F()=Y is bounded because it lies in the radius-2 ball about 0.

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1.3

Evaluation at is a bijection FY. By [L4], the inverse image of each open VY is S({},V), so evaluation is a homeomorphism for the compact-open topology.

L4
2.1

The open cover {{n}:nN} of the infinite discrete space Y has no finite subcover. Thus Y and hence F are not compact, while the family is equicontinuous and pointwise bounded. Moreover F()=Y is not compact, displaying exactly the missing hypothesis in [L1].

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