Restrictions of continuous functions

DOI10.1007/S11856-009-0114-XMaRDI QIDQ2655784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yitzhak Katznelson, Jean-Pierre Kahane

Publication date 26 January 2010

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0679

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff dimensionMinkowski dimensionmodulus of continuity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15) Functions of bounded variation, generalizations (26A45)

Abstract: Given a continuous real-valued function on [0, 1], and a closed subset E subset [0, 1] we denote by f E the restriction of f to E, that is, the function defined only on E that takes the same values as f at every point of E >. The restriction f E will typically be "better behaved" than f . It may have bounded variation when f doesn't, it may have a better modulus of continuity than f, it may be monotone when f is not, etc. All this clearly depends on f and on E, and the questions that we discuss here are about the existence, for every f, or every f in some class, of "substantial" sets E such that f E has bounded total variation, is monotone, or satisfies a given modulus of continuity. The notion of "substantial" that we use is that of either Hausdorff or Minkowski dimensions.

Review text

This paper deals with various problems concerning the restriction of real-valued functions of a real variable. The authors are concerned firstly with restrictions of functions of bounded variation. In this framework they prove that every continuous real-valued function on \([0,1]\) has a bounded variation on some set of Hausdorff dimension \(1/2\). It is also proven that this is optimal by constructing an appropriate lacunary series whose sum has unbounded variation on every closed set of Minkowski dimension bigger than \(1/2\) and hence on every set of Hausdorff dimension bigger than \(1/2\). The next section deals with restrictions that satisfy a Hölder condition with parameter \(\alpha\in(0,1)\). Next, the authors construct continuous functions \(f\) that satisfy a Hölder-\(\alpha\) condition for all \(\alpha < 1\). The case of monotone restrictions of continuous functions is also considered in the present paper. Some open problems conclude the paper under review. The exposition is elementary and self-contained, not requiring any background material.

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