Limits and sums of extendable connectivity functions

Publication date 11 December 1995

Published in Real Analysis Exchange (Search for Journal in Brave)

extendable connectivity functions pointwise limit

Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15) Weak and generalized continuity (54C08) Real-valued functions in general topology (54C30)

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Let \(R\) be the set of reals and let \(I= [0, 1]\). A function \(G: X\to Y\), between topological spaces \(X\) and \(Y\), is said to be a connectivity function if whenever \(C\) is a connected subset of \(X\), then the graph of the restriction \(G|C: C\to Y\) is a connected subset of \(X\times Y\). A connectivity function \(g: I\to R\) is extendable if there is a connectivity function \(G: I\times I\to R\) for which \(G(x, 0)= g(x)\) when \(0\leq x\leq 1\). Let \(K\) denote a class of functions from \(I\) into \(I\) and let \(g\in K\). A set \(M\subset I\) is said to be \(g\)-negligible with respect to \(K\) if \(f\in K\) whenever \(f: I\to I\) and \(f= g\) on \(I- M\). The main result of the paper reads as follows: Theorem. Suppose \(K\) is the class of extendable connectivity functions and \(g\in K\). Then the following are equivalent: (i) The graph of \(g\) is dense in \(I\times I\); (ii) Every nowhere dense subset of \(I\) is \(g\)-negligible; (iii) There exists a dense \(G_\delta\) subset of \(I\) which is \(g\)-negligible. The author also gives some applications of the above theorem: Each function \(f: I\to I\) is the pointwise limit of a sequence of extendable connectivity functions \(f_n: I\to I\); each function \(f: I\to I\) equals a series \(\sum^\infty_{n= 1} g_n\) of extendable connectivity functions \(g_n: I\to R\).

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