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FALSE: every increasing function satisfies Newton-Leibniz with its derivative

Statement

For every increasing F:[a,b]R,

abF(x)dλ(x)=F(b)F(a).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The statement above.

[A1]

We refute it with a strictly increasing singular function on [0,1].

Refutation

technique · direct
1.1

Enumerate all closed rational intervals In=[un,vn] with 0un<vn1. Let c:[0,1]R be the Cantor function of The Cantor function is well defined, satisfies c(x)c(y) whenever xy, is surjective onto [0,1], and is constant on every interval removed from the Cantor set. For each n, let cn be the function that is 0 on [0,un], is 1 on [vn,1], and on [un,vn] is the affine rescaling of c. Then each cn is continuous, nondecreasing, and takes values in [0,1]. [given, choose] S(x):=n12n1cn(x). The series converges uniformly because each summand is bounded by 2n1, so S is continuous and nondecreasing.

givenchoose
2.1

If x<y, choose a rational interval In with x<un<vn<y. Then cn(x)=0 and cn(y)=1, so S(y)S(x)2n1>0. Hence S is strictly increasing. For each n, the derivative of cn is 0 almost everywhere because off the scaled Cantor set inside In the function is locally constant by The Cantor function is well defined, satisfies c(x)c(y) whenever xy, is surjective onto [0,1], and is constant on every interval removed from the Cantor set, and that scaled Cantor set is null because the Cantor set is null by The Cantor set is compact, perfect, uncountable, nowhere dense and of measure zero, and it contains no interval of positive length, so its only nonempty connected subsets are single points. Since each cn is nondecreasing, Fubini's theorem on term-by-term differentiation for pointwise sums of nondecreasing functions applies and gives S(x)=n12n1cn(x)=0 almost everywhere. Together with step 1.1, A singular function on a compact interval shows that S is a singular function.

step 1.1
3.1

Therefore 01S(x)dλ(x)=0 by Two integrable functions are equal almost everywhere exactly when all of their indefinite integrals agree, while strict increase gives S(1)S(0)>0. Hence Newton-Leibniz fails for this increasing function, and the statement is false.

step 2.1

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