Bounded variation in the mean (Q4490218)

A real-valued function \(f\) in \(L^1\) on the circle group \(\mathbb{T}\) is said to be of bounded variation in the mean if \[ \sup \int_{\mathbb{T}} \sum^n_{k= 1}|f(x+ t_k)- f(x+ t_{k- 1})|dx< \infty, \] where the supremum is taken over all partitions \(0= t_0< t_1<\cdots< t_n= 2\pi\). The present authors prove that a function \(f\) is of bounded variation in the mean if and only if there is a function \(g\) of bounded variation in the ordinary sense such that \(f= g\) a.e.