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Every continuous function on a closed nondegenerate rectangle in is Riemann integrable
Statement
Every continuous real function on a closed nondegenerate rectangle , , is Riemann integrable.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A continuous .
is compact by Heine-Borel (Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line, Open cover, subcover, compact metric space, and compact subset of a metric space).
A continuous function on a compact metric space is uniformly continuous and bounded (Heine-Cantor: a continuous map from a compact metric space to any metric space is uniformly continuous, The image of a compact metric space under a continuous map is compact, and so is the image of any compact subset, A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value, Continuity of a map between metric spaces, at a point and globally, in the - form).
The Euclidean and sup-norm metrics are the published metrics and satisfy (The finite and reverse triangle inequalities for a norm; and for every norm on satisfies and is Lipschitz, hence continuous, for clause 3, Each is a norm on , and the induced metrics are exactly , and of the published metric-spaces page).
Arbitrarily small Darboux gaps characterize integrability (Riemann's criterion on a nondegenerate rectangle in : integrability is equivalent to arbitrarily small Darboux gaps).
Proof
Given , use [L2] with oscillation target and choose a grid whose mesh is below the resulting sup-metric radius.
Every cell then has oscillation below that target. Since cell volumes sum to , the Darboux gap is below .
The multidimensional Riemann criterion proves integrability.
Depends on
Riemann's criterion on a nondegenerate rectangle in : integrability is equivalent to arbitrarily small Darboux gaps
Lower and upper Darboux sums over a grid partition in
Grid partitions of a rectangle in , their cells, refinements and mesh
Axis-parallel rectangles in and their volume
Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line
Heine-Cantor: a continuous map from a compact metric space to any metric space is uniformly continuous
Continuity of a map between metric spaces, at a point and globally, in the - form
Open cover, subcover, compact metric space, and compact subset of a metric space
The finite and reverse triangle inequalities for a norm; and for every norm on satisfies and is Lipschitz, hence continuous, for
Each is a norm on , and the induced metrics are exactly , and of the published metric-spaces page
The image of a compact metric space under a continuous map is compact, and so is the image of any compact subset
A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value
Lower bound, bounded below, bounded set