Cardinal invariants concerning functions whose sum is almost continuous

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zbMATH Open0830.26004arXivmath/9410201MaRDI QIDQ1898972FDOQ1898972


Authors: Krzysztof Chris Ciesielski, Arnold W. Miller Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 November 1995

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

Abstract: A function f from reals to reals (f:R->R) is almost continuous (in the sense of Stallings) iff every open set in the plane which contains the graph of f contains the graph of a continuous function. Natkaniec showed that for any family F of continuum many real functions there exists g:R->R such that f+g is almost continuous for every f in F. Let AA be the smallest cardinality of a family F of real functions for which there is no g:R->R with the property that f+g is almost continuous for every f in F. Thus Natkaniec showed that AA is strictly greater than the continuum. He asked if anything more could be said. We show that the cofinality of AA is greater than the continuum, c. Moreover, we show that it is pretty much all that can be said about AA in ZFC, by showing that AA can be equal to any regular cardinal between c^+ and 2^c (with 2^c arbitrarily large). We also show that AA = AD where AD is defined similarly to AA but for the class of Darboux functions. This solves another problem of Maliszewski and Natkaniec.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9410201




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