On the conditions of Arzela Ascoli theorem

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Let $X$ be a compact metric space. Let $F\subseteq C(X;\mathbb{R})$ be a family of functions. Then according to Arzela Ascoli $F$ is compact if and only if $F$ is equicontinuous at any point $t$ and $F$ is uniformly bounded.

But I think uniform boundedness is implied already by equicontinuity.

So equicontinuity should be equivalent to compactness here, no?

Because of $\sup\limits_{f\in F}|f(x)-f(y)|\rightarrow 0$ $(x\rightarrow y)$

one has

$\left|\sup\limits_{f\in F}|f(x)|-\sup\limits_{f\in F}|f(y)|\right|\rightarrow 0$ $(x\rightarrow y)$

So $\sup\limits_{f\in F}|f(x)|$ is continuous and since $X$ is compact one has

$\sup\limits_{x\in X}\sup\limits_{f\in F}|f(x)|<+\infty$

but $\sup\limits_{x\in X}\sup\limits_{f\in F}|f(x)|=\sup\limits_{f\in F}\sup\limits_{x\in X}|f(x)|$

so $f$ is uniformly bounded.

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A collection of constant functions $f_n(x) = n$ for all $x$ is equicontinuous but not uniformly bounded.