On modified Takagi functions of two variables

DOI10.1215/KJM/1250521072MaRDI QIDQ1086691zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoshiki Tsujii

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Mathematics of Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/kjm/1250521072

zbMATH Keywords

Cantor functioncontinuous functions of two variablescontoursgraph of Hausdorff dimension 2modification of the Takagi functionmultiparameter Brownian motionsnondifferentiable function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nondifferentiability (nondifferentiable functions, points of nondifferentiability), discontinuous derivatives (26A27) Special properties of functions of several variables, Hölder conditions, etc. (26B35) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Brownian motion (60J65)

Review text

In this paper explicit examples are constructed of continuous functions of two variables whose non-trivial contours have union of Lebesgue measure zero. This follows the work of the reviewer [Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheor. Verw. Geb. 52, 267-276 (1980; Zbl 0431.60056)], who established this result for multiparameter Brownian motions [and incidentally the Baire category analogue in Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 14, 30-32 (1982; Zbl 0485.54023)]. The construction uses a modification of the Takagi function, a beautifully simple early example of a nondifferentiable function. The resulting function is shown to have graph of Hausdorff dimension 2, which is the smallest possible value. Thus the function is much smoother than Brownian motion.

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