#Trying to find an approach to prove the pointwise convergence of this sequence of functions
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You should check convergence for x = 0 and x = 2pi first
And then split up the subsequences where the sequence gets very close to 1 and the other very close to -1
I mean for the values that aren’t 0 and 2pi, this is because of the oscillation
This is the step that’s giving me a headache, I’m not really sure of how to define these subsequences
What property they should accomplish
You want nx roughly equal to 2pi times an integer and nx roughly equal to pi + 2pi times an integer
If t=x/(2pi) is irrational then the set (t n)mod 1 is dense, so you can choose two subsequences of n such that (x n)mod 2pi tends to 0 and pi, thus giving cosine 1 and -1. If t is rational, say t=p/q, then you can also choose two subsequences, say n=qk and n=m+qk, where mp=1 (mod q).