Riesz--Nágy singular functions revisited (Q868808)

The authors revisit the Riesz-Nágy family of strictly increasing singular functions built as the limit of a sequence of deformations of the identity function, and the further result by Takács, where a closed form definition of a family of increasing continuous singular functions was provided. In particular, both families are related to a system for real number representation called \((\tau, \tau-1)\)-expansion: given \(\tau\in {\mathbb R},\) \(\tau>1,\) any \(x\in [0,1)\) can be expressed as \(x=\sum_1^{\infty} \varepsilon_i{1\over \tau^i}(\tau -1)^{\sum_{j=1}^{i-1}\varepsilon_j},\) with \(\varepsilon_i\in \{0,1\}.\) After a detailed study of these expansions, exploiting their metrical properties, they prove the singularity of the family. Moreover, with the help of \((\tau,\tau-1)\)-expansions, they extend the family and obtain conditions for the null and infinite derivatives.