Continuous functions taking every value a given number of times

DOI10.1007/S10474-008-7042-9MaRDI QIDQ1046828zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Blot

Publication date 29 December 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3608

zbMATH Keywords

analytic setcontinuous functionindicatrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Descriptive set theory (03E15) Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15) Classification of real functions; Baire classification of sets and functions (26A21)

Abstract: We give necessary and sufficient conditions on a function $f:[0,1]o0,1,2,\mathrm{...},omega,continuum$ under which there exists a continuous function $F:[0,1]o[0,1]$ such that for every $yin[0,1]$ we have $|F^{-1}(y)|=f(y)$.

Review text

Conditions characterizing the indicatrices \(y\in [0,1]\mapsto | f^{-1}(y)| \) of continuous functions \(f:[0,1]\to [0,1]\) are found. While it is known to be a necessary condition that the set where the indicatrix is uncountable is analytic, and the other conditions describing how the indicatrix behaves locally have a short proof, the sufficiency of these conditions uses a quite involved construction.

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