A function taking values in a countable product of metric spaces is uniformly continuous iff its coordinate functions are.

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Let $\lbrace (M_n,d_n) \rbrace _{n \in I}$ be a countable family of metric spaces and define a metric in the product $\prod _{n \in I}M_n$ as follows: $$d(\vec{x},\vec{y})=\sum _{n \in I} \min \lbrace \frac{1}{2^n},d_n(x_n,y_n)\rbrace$$ Now, let $(X,d_X)$ be a metric space and take a function $f:X \to \prod _{n \in I}M_n$, I'm trying to prove that if all the coordinate functions $f_n:X \to M_n$ are uniformly continuous so it is $f$ (the converse follows from the facts that the projections are u.c. and a composition of u.c. functions is also u.c.). This is what I thought:

If I want $d(f(x),f(y))<\epsilon$ it would be enought to have $d_n(f_n(x),f_n(y))<\frac{\alpha}{2^n}$ for all $n \in I$ and some fixed $\alpha <\epsilon$ because if $\alpha \geq 1$ it means that $\epsilon>1$ and in that case we are done because $d(f(x),f(y))\leq 1$ for all $x,y \in X$ and if $\alpha <1$ then we get $d(f(x),f(y))<\alpha$.

Now, since every $f_n$ is u.c. we know there are some $\delta _n$ such that if $d_X(x,y)<\delta _n$ then $d_n(f_n(x),f_n(y))<\frac{\alpha}{2^n}$, so if I could take $d_X(x,y)<\inf_{n \in I} \delta_n$ everything would fit quite well, the only problem is that I don't see any reason to assume $\inf_{n \in I} \delta_n \not=0$, is there any reason to make that assumption? Or perhaps this is not the right approach, in that case any advice on how to solve it is welcome.

Thanks in advance

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HINT: You’re not taking full advantage of the definition of $d$. Let $\epsilon>0$. Then there is an $m\in\Bbb N$ such that

$$\sum_{n\ge m}\frac1{2^n}<\frac{\epsilon}2\;.$$

Then for any $\vec x,\vec y$ we have

$$d(\vec x,\vec y)<\frac{\epsilon}2+\sum_{n<m}d_n(x_n,y_n)\;,$$

and we’re essentially dealing with only finitely many of the metrics $d_n$, those for which $n<m$. Can you finish it off from here?