9.Give an example of a family of intervals A n A_n An such that A n + 1 ⊂ A n A_{n+1}\subset A_n An+1⊂An for all n n n and ⋂ n = 1 ∞ A n = ∅ \displaystyle \bigcap_{n=1}^\infty A_n=\emptyset n=1⋂∞An=∅.
Proof: Set
A
n
=
(
0
,
1
n
)
A_n=(0,\frac{1}{n})
An=(0,n1).
Then obviously, we have
A
n
+
1
⊂
A
n
A_{n+1}\subset A_n
An+1⊂An.
If
x
x
x is an element in
⋂
n
=
1
∞
A
n
\displaystyle \bigcap_{n=1}^\infty A_n
n=1⋂∞An, then we can find a natural number
x
x
x such that
1
/
n
<
x
1/n<x
1/n<x. So
x
x
x isn’t an element in
⋂
n
=
1
∞
A
n
\displaystyle \bigcap_{n=1}^\infty A_n
n=1⋂∞An.
Therefore, we have found
A
n
=
(
0
,
1
n
)
A_n=(0,\frac{1}{n})
An=(0,n1) such that
A
n
+
1
⊂
A
n
A_{n+1}\subset A_n
An+1⊂An for all
n
n
n and
⋂
n
=
1
∞
A
n
=
∅
\displaystyle \bigcap_{n=1}^\infty A_n=\emptyset
n=1⋂∞An=∅.