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Total differentiability gives a local increment bound and therefore continuity
Statement
If is totally differentiable at , then some satisfy whenever and . In particular is continuous at .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A total derivative for at .
The total-derivative definition supplies the normwise remainder estimate for every ; in positive source dimension this is equivalently the normalized remainder tending to zero as tends to zero (The total (Fréchet) derivative as the linear first-order approximation with remainder).
In positive source and target dimensions, every Euclidean linear map has a norm bound for some (Every Euclidean linear map has a unique matrix and satisfies for some ).
Proof
If the source dimension is zero, the only admissible increment is , so the stated bound holds with and continuity follows directly from the norm-induced metric. If , every increment of is zero and the same bound and continuity hold. For the remainder assume both dimensions are positive.
By [L1], choose such that the remainder satisfies whenever .
If bounds as in [L2], the triangle inequality gives for those , and it also holds at .
Given , take ; step 2.1 is the metric continuity condition at .