I have the function:
$$f : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \hspace{2cm} f(x) = e^x + x^3 -x^2 + x$$
and I have to find the limit:
$$\lim\limits_{x \to \infty} \frac{f^{-1}(x)}{\ln x}$$
(In the first part of the problem, I had to show that the function is strictly increasing and invertible. I don't know if that's relevant to this, since I could show that the function is invertible, but I can't find the inverse.)
So this is what I tried:
I showed
$$\lim_{x \to \infty} f(x) = \infty$$
and so I concluded that $\lim\limits_{x \to \infty} f^{-1}(x) = \infty$. I'm not sure if this is correct, it might be wrong. But if would be right, then we could use l'Hospital, knowing that:
$$(f^{-1})'(x) = \frac{1}{f'(f^{-1}(x))}$$
but after trying to use all of this on paper, I got nowhere. It just complicated thing a lot more.
So how should I solve this limit?
Best Answer
Hint : $$\forall x\geq 1\quad 2e^x \geq e^x+x^3-x^2+x\geq e^x+1$$
So $$\ln(\frac{x}{2})\leq f^{-1}(x)\leq \ln(x-1)$$
So we deduce that your limit is a constant by the sandwich theorem .