Wednesday, December 30, 2015

calculus - Suppose that f is a real valued function such that its second derivative is discontinuous.Can you give some example?



In an interview somebody asked me the following question but I failed to give the answer.
Suppose that f is a real valued function such that its second derivative is discontinuous. Can you give some example?


Answer



The answers so far give differentiable functions that fail to have a second derivative at some point. If you want to second derivative to exist everywhere and be discontinous somewhere, you can use the following function:




f(x)=x0t2sin(1t) dt



Its first derivative is xx2sin(1x), which is differentiable everywhere, and while its derivative (and hence the second derivative of f) is defined everywhere, it is discontinuous at 0. Therefore, f, f and f are defined everywhere, and f is discontinuous at 0.


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