English

A compact null set containing a differentiability point of every Lipschitz function

Functional Analysis 2011-05-17 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We prove that in a Euclidean space of dimension at least two, there exists a compact set of Lebesgue measure zero such that any real-valued Lipschitz function defined on the space is differentiable at some point in the set. Such a set is constructed explicitly.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0804.4576,
  title  = {A compact null set containing a differentiability point of every Lipschitz function},
  author = {Michael Doré and Olga Maleva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4576},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

28 pages; minor modifications throughout; Lemma 4.2 is proved for general Banach space rather than for Hilbert space

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