Paper 2, Section I, G

Analysis II
Part IB, 2016

(a) What does it mean to say that the function f:RnRmf: \mathbb{R}^{n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{m} is differentiable at the point x=(x1,x2,,xn)Rnx=\left(x_{1}, x_{2}, \ldots, x_{n}\right) \in \mathbb{R}^{n} ? Show from your definition that if ff is differentiable at xx, then ff is continuous at xx.

(b) Suppose that there are functions gj:RRm(1jn)g_{j}: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{m}(1 \leqslant j \leqslant n) such that for every x=(x1,,xn)Rnx=\left(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{n}\right) \in \mathbb{R}^{n},

f(x)=j=1ngj(xj).f(x)=\sum_{j=1}^{n} g_{j}\left(x_{j}\right) .

Show that ff is differentiable at xx if and only if each gjg_{j} is differentiable at xjx_{j}.

(c) Let f:R2Rf: \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} be given by

f(x,y)=x3/2+y1/2f(x, y)=|x|^{3 / 2}+|y|^{1 / 2}

Determine at which points (x,y)R2(x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^{2} the function ff is differentiable.