Saturday, October 10, 2015

real analysis - Nowhere continuous function for every equivalence class



Since our calculus lectures, we know that there are nowhere continuous functions (like the indicator function of the rationals). However, if we change this Dirichlet function on a set of measure zero, then we get a continuous function (the zero function). So my question ist




Does there exist a function $f: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that every function which equals $f$ almost everywhere (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) is nowhere continuous?

Is it possible to choose $f$ borel-measurable?



Answer



See my answer to this question for the construction of an $F_\sigma$ set $M\subset\mathbb R$ such that $0\lt m(M\cap I)\lt m(I)$ for every finite interval $I,$ where $m$ is the Lebesgue measure.



Let $f$ be the indicator function of $M.$ Clearly $f$ is Borel-measurable. If $g(x)=f(x)$ almost everywhere, then $g^{-1}(0)$ and $g^{-1}(1)$ are everywhere dense, whence $g$ is nowhere continuous.


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