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Knot points of typical continuous functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2014-01-21 v1 Logic

Abstract

It is well known that most continuous functions are nowhere differentiable. Furthermore, in terms of Dini derivatives, most continuous functions are nondifferentiable in the strongest possible sense except in a small set of points. In this paper, we completely characterise families S of sets of points for which most continuous functions have the property that such small set of points belongs to S. The proof uses a topological zero-one law and the Banach-Mazur game.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2887,
  title  = {Knot points of typical continuous functions},
  author = {David Preiss and Shingo Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2887},
  year   = {2014}
}

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24 pages

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