On the preservation of periodic monotonicity (Q1185191)

Let PMP denote the class of periodic monotonicity preserving functions. The authors give an explicit description of the members in PMP. They show that an old necessary condition due to Loewner is (essentially) also sufficient. Their result extends to noncontinuous periodically monotone functions, solves Schoenberg's problem about the preservation of convex curves, and even improves on the knowledge concerning properties of cyclic variation diminishing transforms.