Almost continuous Sierpinski-Zygmund functions under different set-theoretical assumptions
A function f : R → R is: almost continuous in the sense of Stallings, f ∈ AC, if each open set G ⊂ R2 containing the graph of f contains also the graph of a continuous function g : R → R; Sierpiński-Zygmund, f ∈ SZ (or, more generally, f ∈ SZ(Bor)), provided its restriction f M is discontinuous (not...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/71786 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71786 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 512.642 Additivity Almost continuous functions Covering of category Covering of measure Lineability Random reals Sierpiński-Zygmund functions Espacios vectoriales Matemáticas (Matemáticas) Análisis matemático 12 Matemáticas 1202 Análisis y Análisis Funcional |
| Sumario: | A function f : R → R is: almost continuous in the sense of Stallings, f ∈ AC, if each open set G ⊂ R2 containing the graph of f contains also the graph of a continuous function g : R → R; Sierpiński-Zygmund, f ∈ SZ (or, more generally, f ∈ SZ(Bor)), provided its restriction f M is discontinuous (not Borel, respectively) for any M ⊂ R of cardinality continuum. It is known that an example of a Sierpiński-Zygmund almost continuous function f : R → R (i.e., an f ∈ SZ ∩ AC) cannot be constructed in ZFC; however, an f ∈ SZ ∩ AC exists under the additional set-theoretical assumption cov(M) = c, that is, that R cannot be covered by less than c-many meager sets. The primary purpose of this paper is to show that the existence of an f ∈ SZ∩AC is also consistent with ZFC plus the negation of cov(M) = c. More precisely, we show that it is consistent with ZFC+cov(M) < c (follows from the assumption that non(N ) < cov(N ) = c) that there is an f ∈ SZ(Bor)∩AC and that such a map may have even stronger properties expressed in the language of Darboux-like functions. We also examine, assuming either cov(M) = c or non(N ) < cov(N ) = c, the lineability and the additivity coefficient of the class of all almost continuous Sierpiński-Zygmund functions. Several open problems are also stated. |
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