Paper 4, Section I, F

Analysis II
Part IB, 2014

Define a contraction mapping and state the contraction mapping theorem.

Let C[0,1]C[0,1] be the space of continuous real-valued functions on [0,1][0,1] endowed with the uniform norm. Show that the map A:C[0,1]C[0,1]A: C[0,1] \rightarrow C[0,1] defined by

Af(x)=0xf(t)dtA f(x)=\int_{0}^{x} f(t) d t

is not a contraction mapping, but that AAA \circ A is.