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On some nested floor functions and their jump discontinuities

General Mathematics 2022-03-31 v1

Abstract

This paper investigates some particular limits involving nested floor functions. We'll prove some cases and then we'll show a more general result. Then we'll count the discontinuity points of those functions, and we'll prove a method to find them all. Surprisingly the set of the jump discontinuities of fnf_n is a subset of the set of the jump discontinuities of fn+1f_{n+1}, nZ+\forall n\in\mathbb{Z^{+}} where: fn(x)=xxn times f_n(x)=\underbrace{\Biggl\lfloor x\Bigl\lfloor x \lfloor\dots\rfloor\Bigr\rfloor\Biggr\rfloor}_{\text{$n$ times}} Furthermore we'll give some generalizations of the result and lots of considerations; for example we'll prove that the cardinality of the set of the discontinuities of fnf_n in a given limited interval approaches infinity as nn\to\infty.

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@article{arxiv.2203.16333,
  title  = {On some nested floor functions and their jump discontinuities},
  author = {Luca Onnis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16333},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures

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