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Another look at the Matkowski and Weso{\l}owski problem yielding a new class of solutions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-05-21 v1

Abstract

The following MW--problem was posed independently by Janusz Matkowski and Jacek Weso{\l}owski in different forms in 1985 and 2009, respectively: Are there increasing and continuous functions φ ⁣:[0,1][0,1]\varphi\colon [0,1]\to [0,1], distinct from the identity on [0,1][0,1], such that φ(0)=0\varphi(0)=0, φ(1)=1\varphi(1)=1 and φ(x)=φ(x2)+φ(x+12)φ(12)\varphi(x)=\varphi(\frac{x}{2})+\varphi(\frac{x+1}{2})-\varphi(\frac{1}{2}) for every x[0,1]x\in[0,1]? By now, it is known that each of the de Rham functions RpR_p, where p(0,1)p\in(0,1), is a solution of the MW--problem, and for any Borel probability measure μ\mu concentrated on (0,1)(0,1) the formula ϕμ(x)=(0,1)Rp(x)dμ(p)\phi_\mu(x)=\int_{(0,1)}R_p(x) d\mu(p) defines a solution ϕμ ⁣:[0,1][0,1]\phi_\mu\colon[0,1]\to[0,1] of this problem as well. In this paper, we give a new family of solutions of the MW--problem consisting of Cantor-type functions. We also prove that there are strictly increasing solutions of the MW--problem that are not of the above integral form with any Borel probability measure μ\mu.

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@article{arxiv.2405.12032,
  title  = {Another look at the Matkowski and Weso{\l}owski problem yielding a new class of solutions},
  author = {Janusz Morawiec and Thomas Zürcher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12032},
  year   = {2024}
}