A necessary and sufficient condition for a Baire \(\alpha\) function to be a product of two Darboux Baire \(\alpha\) functions (Q1105063)

In this paper, the author improves his result: Each function f of the Baire class \(\alpha\) can be expressed as a product of two Darboux functions of the Baire class \(\alpha +1\) if and only if f has a zero value in each subinterval in which it changes the sign [Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 31, 16-22 (1982; Zbl 0503.26003)]. Here is proved that these two Baire functions can be taken also from the class \(\alpha\). Reviewer's remark. There are several misprints. In the proof of Lemma 2, the function s must be \(f-gc_ A+hc_ B,\) where \(c_ A\), \(c_ B\) is the characteristic function of the set A, respectively B.