{ "id": "1204.2887", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-04-13T06:23:41.000Z", "updated": "2012-04-13T06:23:41.000Z", "title": "Knot points of typical continuous functions", "authors": [ "David Preiss", "Shingo Saito" ], "comment": "24 pages", "journal": "Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014), 833-856", "doi": "10.1090/S0002-9947-2013-06100-4", "categories": [ "math.CA", "math.LO" ], "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-04-13T06:23:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "26A27", "26A21", "28A05", "54H05" ], "keywords": [ "typical continuous functions", "knot points", "small set", "characterise families", "dini derivatives" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "AMS", "journal": "Trans. Amer. Math. Soc." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 24, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1204.2887P" } } }