A pathological approximately smooth function

DOI10.1007/BF01955731MaRDI QIDQ1073934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael J. Evans, Paul D. Humke

Publication date 1985

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01955731

zbMATH Keywords

approximate discontinuityapproximately smooth function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15)

Review text

A real-valued measurable function f defined on the real line is said to be smooth if at each point x \[ \lim_{h\to 0}(f(x+h)+f(x-h)-2f(x))/h=0. \] It is known that the set of discontinuities of a smooth function is countable; indeed, this set can be characterized as a scattered set. If one replaces the limit in the above definition by an approximate limit, the notion of approximate smoothness results. Although the set of points of approximate discontinuity of an approximately smooth function must be both of measure zero and of first category, an example is constructed here for which the set of points of approximate discontinuity is uncountable.

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