Entire Functions Mapping Countable Dense Subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ onto Countable Dense Subsets of $\mathbb{C}$
Complex Variables
2026-07-27 v1
Abstract
In 1977, Karl F. Barth posed the following problem: given countable dense sets and , does there exist a transcendental entire function such that and ? We review results related to this question and prove that there exist transcendental entire functions such that is bijective, , and for every . In fact, the set of such functions has the cardinality of the continuum. At the end, we give two extensions of the result, one for countably many pairwise disjoint pairs of dense sets and one with replaced by a closed unbounded subset of of planar Lebesgue measure zero.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.23966,
title = {Entire Functions Mapping Countable Dense Subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ onto Countable Dense Subsets of $\mathbb{C}$},
author = {Sina Nadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.23966},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
12 pages