Assignment #6 (2)

 

Comment and Solution for Q.7.11 (b):

The problem in this question is to show where exactly the strict inequality could occur.

Lets see: , where is the supremum of over . This supremum could be strictly smaller than over the same subinterval. An example where this happens is when f is 1 over rationals and -1 over irrationals, with g being the negative of f. There is one more sticky point and we continue further. It is easy to show that the last inequality is true (hence to get a solution of the problem) . What may not be so easy is to see if that inequality could also be strict ! Notice that on the right hand side of the last inequality we could take different partitions, one for , and the other for while on the left hand side of the last inequality, both these sums use the same partition P.