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Vanish at infinity

In mathematics, a function is said to vanish at infinity if its values approach 0 as the input grows without bounds. There are two different ways to define this with one definition applying to functions defined on normed vector spaces and the other applying to functions defined on locally compact spaces. Aside from this difference, both of these notions correspond to the intuitive notion of adding a point at infinity, and requiring the values of the function to get arbitrarily close to zero as one approaches it. This definition can be formalized in many cases by adding an (actual) point at infinity. A function on a normed vector space is said to if the function approaches as the input grows without bounds (that is, as ). Or, in the specific case of functions on the real line. For example, the function defined on the real line vanishes at infinity. Alternatively, a function on a locally compact space , if given any positive number ε, there exists a compact subset such that whenever the point lies outside of In other words, for each positive number ε the set has compact closure. For a given locally compact space the set of such functions valued in which is either or forms a -vector space with respect to pointwise scalar multiplication and addition, which is often denoted As an example, the function where and are reals greater or equal 1 and correspond to the point on vanishes at infinity. A normed space is locally compact if and only if it is finite-dimensional so in this particular case, there are two different definitions of a function "vanishing at infinity". The two definitions could be inconsistent with each other: if in an infinite dimensional Banach space, then vanishes at infinity by the definition, but not by the compact set definition. Schwartz space Refining the concept, one can look more closely to the of functions at infinity. One of the basic intuitions of mathematical analysis is that the Fourier transform interchanges smoothness conditions with rate conditions on vanishing at infinity.

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