vanish at infinity
Let be a locally compact space. A function is said to vanish at infinity if, for every , there is a compact set such that for every , where denotes the standard norm (http://planetmath.org/Norm2) on .
If is non-compact, let be the one-point compactification of . The above definition can be rephrased as: The extension of to satisfying is continuous at the point .
The set of continuous functions that vanish at infinity is an algebra over the complex field and is usually denoted by .
0.0.1 Remarks
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When is compact, all functions vanish at infinity. Hence, .