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Bounded function - Wikipedia

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A mathematical function the set of whose values is bounded

A schematic illustration of a bounded function (red) and an unbounded one (blue). Intuitively, the graph of a bounded function stays within a horizontal band, while the graph of an unbounded function does not.

In mathematics, a function f {\displaystyle f} defined on some set X {\displaystyle X} with real or complex values is called bounded if the set of its values (its image) is bounded. In other words, there exists a real number M {\displaystyle M} such that

| f ( x ) | ≤ M {\displaystyle |f(x)|\leq M}

for all x {\displaystyle x} in X {\displaystyle X} .[1] A function that is not bounded is said to be unbounded.[citation needed]

If f {\displaystyle f} is real-valued and f ( x ) ≤ A {\displaystyle f(x)\leq A} for all x {\displaystyle x} in X {\displaystyle X} , then the function is said to be bounded (from) above by A {\displaystyle A} . If f ( x ) ≥ B {\displaystyle f(x)\geq B} for all x {\displaystyle x} in X {\displaystyle X} , then the function is said to be bounded (from) below by B {\displaystyle B} . A real-valued function is bounded if and only if it is bounded from above and below.[1][additional citation(s) needed]

An important special case is a bounded sequence, where X {\displaystyle X} is taken to be the set N {\displaystyle \mathbb {N} } of natural numbers. Thus a sequence f = ( a 0 , a 1 , a 2 , … ) {\displaystyle f=(a_{0},a_{1},a_{2},\ldots )} is bounded if there exists a real number M {\displaystyle M} such that

| a n | ≤ M {\displaystyle |a_{n}|\leq M}

for every natural number n {\displaystyle n} . The set of all bounded sequences forms the sequence space l ∞ {\displaystyle l^{\infty }} .[citation needed]

The definition of boundedness can be generalized to functions f : X → Y {\displaystyle f:X\rightarrow Y} taking values in a more general space Y {\displaystyle Y} by requiring that the image f ( X ) {\displaystyle f(X)} is a bounded set in Y {\displaystyle Y} .[citation needed]

Weaker than boundedness is local boundedness. A family of bounded functions may be uniformly bounded.

A bounded operator T : X → Y {\displaystyle T:X\rightarrow Y} is not a bounded function in the sense of this page's definition (unless T = 0 {\displaystyle T=0} ), but has the weaker property of preserving boundedness; bounded sets M ⊆ X {\displaystyle M\subseteq X} are mapped to bounded sets T ( M ) ⊆ Y {\displaystyle T(M)\subseteq Y} . This definition can be extended to any function f : X → Y {\displaystyle f:X\rightarrow Y} if X {\displaystyle X} and Y {\displaystyle Y} allow for the concept of a bounded set. Boundedness can also be determined by looking at a graph.[citation needed]


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