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On a problem of Mazur from "The Scottish Book" concerning second partial derivatives

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-01-15 v2 General Topology

Abstract

We comment on a Mazur problem from "Scottish Book" concerning second partial derivatives. It is proved that, if a function f(x,y)f(x,y) of real variables defined on a rectangle has continuous derivative with respect to yy and for almost all yy the function Fy(x):=fy(x,y)\,F_y(x):=f'_y(x,y) has finite variation, then almost everywhere on the rectangle there exists the partial derivative f"yxf"_{yx}. We construct a separately twice differentiable function, whose partial derivative fxf'_x is discontinuous with respect to the second variable on a set of positive measure. This solves in the negative the Mazur problem.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06909,
  title  = {On a problem of Mazur from "The Scottish Book" concerning second partial derivatives},
  author = {V. Mykhaylyuk and A. Plichko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06909},
  year   = {2016}
}