Uniqueness of Supremum and Infimum

A set has at most one least upper bound and at most one greatest lower bound.
Uniqueness of Supremum and Infimum

Uniqueness of supremum/infimum: Let ARA \subseteq \mathbb{R} be nonempty.

  • If ss and tt are both of AA, then s=ts=t.
  • If uu and vv are both of AA, then u=vu=v.

This guarantees that the notation supA\sup A and infA\inf A is unambiguous whenever these numbers exist, which is ensured under the hypotheses of the (for sup\sup) and its dual (for inf\inf).