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The squeeze theorem needs the two bounds to share their limit
Statement refuted
Refuted claim: if eventually and and both converge, then converges.
The witnesses are the constant sequences and together with the alternating sequence of FALSE: every bounded sequence converges; the inequalities hold at every index, the two bounds converge to and respectively, and does not converge. So The squeeze theorem genuinely needs the two limit values to coincide, not merely the two bounds to exist.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The unique sequences of reals with and for every (The recursion theorem), and the constant sequences , , (Sequences of reals: bounded, eventually, frequently, tails, subsequences).
The sequence is the alternating sequence of FALSE: every bounded sequence converges: it is introduced there by the recursion , (FALSE: every bounded sequence converges).
does not converge (FALSE: every bounded sequence converges).
Absolute value is even: (Basic properties of the absolute value).
Induction principle: if holds and implies for every , then holds for every natural (The principle of mathematical induction).
Absolute value: if and if ; so , and, for any , the equality forces when and when (Absolute value in an ordered field).
Trichotomy: for all reals exactly one of , , holds, and the order is transitive (Ordered field).
, so by adding constants and in particular , while (The multiplicative identity is positive, Order is preserved by adding a constant and by adding inequalities).
Convergence: converges to when for every rational there is with for all (Limits and Cauchy sequences of reals).
Squeeze theorem: if eventually and , both converge to the same real , then converges to (The squeeze theorem).
Counterexample
By induction [F4], for every : the base is by [F5], and if then by [F3] and the recursion [F1].
The constant sequences converge to their values: given a rational , the estimates and hold at every index by [F5], so the threshold witnesses the condition of [F8] in each case.
does not converge by [F2], and the two limits and are distinct by [F7].
Consequently for every : if then by [F5], while if then by [F5]; trichotomy [F6] makes the two cases exhaustive. In both cases by [F7].
Steps 2.1 and 1.2 give at every index (hence eventually) with and , while by step 1.3 the middle sequence does not converge; since the two bound limits differ, the equal-limit hypothesis of [F9] fails and the squeeze gives no conclusion — and indeed the conclusion is false.
Depends on
- The squeeze theorem
- FALSE: every bounded sequence converges
- The principle of mathematical induction
- Basic properties of the absolute value
- Absolute value in an ordered field
- Order on the reals
- Sequences of reals: bounded, eventually, frequently, tails, subsequences
- Limits and Cauchy sequences of reals
- Ordered field
- Order is preserved by adding a constant and by adding inequalities
- The multiplicative identity is positive
- Sign rules for products and monotonicity of multiplication
- The recursion theorem
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Sources
- John K. Hunter, An Introduction to Real Analysis (complete author-hosted lecture notes, 307 pp.) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Jiri Lebl, Basic Analysis I: Introduction to Real Analysis, Volume I (author-hosted complete book PDF) (standard reference, not scraped)