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Re: Re: Searching for a function

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• Subject: [mg70862] Re: [mg70854] Re: Searching for a function
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:32:25 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

As I said in my earlier response, you can always use a CONSTANT function 
from a nonempty set A to a nonempty set B.  And a constant function will 
be continuous no matter what the topologies on A and B.

Moreover, if your problem is "constructing" such a function, then at 
least when B is defined by means of equalities and inequalities, you 
could use FindInstance to pick some element of B to use as the constant 
value.

Perhaps you've still not asked the question you really are trying to ask.

Bonny Banerjee wrote:
> I am looking for continuous functions only from set A to set B. Sorry for 
> not making it clear.
> 
> --Bonny.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Bonny Banerjee" <banerjee.28 at osu.edu> wrote in message 
> news:ehv8vp$g6f$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>> Is it possible for Mathematica to solve this problem:
>>
>> Given sets A and B, does there exist a function from A to B? If yes, what 
>> is
>> the function?
>>
>>
>> Here is an example:
>>
>> Let, A = {x such that 0<x<11 and Mod[x,2]==0}
>>
>> B = {y such that 0<y<11 and Mod[y+1,2]==0}
>>
>> Then, there exists a function from A to B
>>
>> y = x - 1
>>
>>
>> Thus, is there a way to specify arbitrary sets A, B, and use Mathematica 
>> to
>> figure out whether there exits a function from A to B or not?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bonny.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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  • Re: Searching for a function
    • From: "Bonny Banerjee" <banerjee.28@osu.edu>