On the generalization of the Costas property in the continuum (Q935613)

The authors extend the definition of the Costas property to functions on the continuum, namely on intervals of the reals or the rationals, and argue that such functions can be used in the same applications as discrete Costas arrays. They construct Costas bijections in the real continuum within the class of piecewise continuously differentiable functions, but their attempts to construct a fractal like Costas bijection there are successful only under slight but necessary deviations from the usual arithmetic laws. The situation over the rationals is different: there, they propose a method of great generality and flexibility for the construction of a Costas fractal bijection. Its success, though, relies heavily on the enumerability of the rationals, and therefore it cannot be generalized over the reals in an obvious way.