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xsin(1/x) extended by zero is continuous but not differentiable at zero

Statement

Define f:RR by

f(0):=0,f(x):=xsin(1/x)(x0).

Then f is continuous on R but is not differentiable at 0.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The function f in the Statement.

[L1]

For every real u, sinu1 (Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine).

[L2]

If a function is squeezed near a point between two functions having the same limit there, then it has that limit (If fgh near c and f and h have the same limit at c, then so does g).

[L3]

The quarter-turn values and period give sin(π/2+2mπ)=1 and sin(3π/2+2mπ)=1 for every integer m (Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi, The zero sets of sine and cosine and the least positive common period 2 pi).

[L4]

For every real ε>0, there is a positive integer N with 1/N<ε (For every ε>0 in a complete ordered field there is a natural n1 with 1/n<ε).

[L5]

If two punctured-domain sequences approach a limit point while their images approach distinct real limits, then the function has no limit there (A function has no limit at c as soon as two sequences in A{c} tending to c give different limits of the values).

[L6]
[L8]

The number π=2γ is positive because the first positive cosine zero satisfies γ(0,2) (Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine, Cosine has a smallest positive zero, lying strictly between zero and two).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

By [L1], xf(x)x for x0, so [L2] gives f(x)0=f(0) at zero. Away from zero, the identity function has no zero in the denominator of the reciprocal, so the quotient, sine, composite, and product clauses of [L7] preserve continuity. Thus f is continuous on R.

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1.2

For x0, the difference quotient at zero is (f(x)f(0))/x=sin(1/x).

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1.3

For kN, put xk:=1π/2+2π(k+1),yk:=13π/2+2π(k+1). Positivity of π and [L4] give nonzero positive terms and xk,yk0, while [L3] gives sin(1/xk)=1 and sin(1/yk)=1.

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2.1

By [L5], step 1.3 shows that sin(1/x) has no limit at zero.

step 1.3L5
3.1

The quotient identity in step 1.2 and the nonexistence in step 2.1 show through [L6] that f(0) does not exist.

step 1.2step 2.1L6

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