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Counterexamples to the Gaussian vs. MZ derivatives Conjecture

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2024-09-18 v2

Abstract

J. Marcinkiewicz and A. Zygmund proved in 1936 that the special nn-th generalized Riemann derivative 2Dnf(x){_2}D_nf(x) with nodes 0,1,2,22,,2n10,1,2,2^2,\ldots, 2^{n-1}, is equivalent to the nn-th Peano derivative f(n)(x)f_{(n)}(x), for all n1n-1 times Peano differentiable functions ff at~xx. Call every nn-th generalized Riemann derivative with this property an MZ derivative. The recent paper Ash, Catoiu, and Fejzi\'c [Israel J. Math. {255} (2023):177--199] introduced the nn-th Gaussian derivatives as the nn-th generalized Riemann derivatives with nodes either 0,1,q,q2,,qn10,1,q,q^2,\ldots ,q^{n-1} or 1,q,q2,,qn1,q,q^2,\ldots ,q^{n}, where~q0,±1q\neq0,\pm 1, proved that the Gaussian derivatives are MZ derivatives, and conjectured that these are \emph{all} MZ derivatives. In this article, we invalidate this conjecture by means of two counterexamples. The order in which these are presented allows an update of the conjecture after each counterexample. The proof of the first counterexample is simple, by scales of generalized Riemann derivatives. The proof of the second involves the classification of generalized Riemann derivatives of Ash, Catoiu, and Chin [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc {146} (2018):3847--3862]. Symmetric versions of all the results are also~included.

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@article{arxiv.2209.04095,
  title  = {Counterexamples to the Gaussian vs. MZ derivatives Conjecture},
  author = {J. Marshall Ash and Stefan Catoiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04095},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages

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