Thursday, March 31, 2016

calculus - If all directional derivatives of f in point p exist, is f differentiable?



I am a little bit confused by the various theorems concerning the differentiability of a multivariable function.
Let f:DRnR have all directional derivatives in point p. Does it directly imply that f is differentiable in p? I know that the opposite is true: If f were differentiable, it would imply that it has directional derivatives.


Answer




No, this is not true. Take, for instancef:R2R(x,y){x2yx4+y2 if (x,y)(0,0)0 otherwise.

You can check that, at (0,0), every directional derivative is 0. However, f is not differentiable there.


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