Sunday, December 16, 2018

real analysis - Is a differentiable function required to have at least one point where its derivative is continuous?


Let f there be a real-valued differentiable function everywhere in the interval ]a,b[.


Does dfdx need to be continuous somewhere in the interval ]a,b[? Or can a differentiable function f exist so that dfdx is continuous nowhere in the interval ]a,b[?


Answer



f(x)=lim


This is the limit of continuous functions and thus Baire class 1, that is, it is the pointwise limit of continuous functions.


A theorem states that a pointwise limit of continuous functions can only have discontinuities at a meagre set and thus must be continuous on a dense set of points.


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