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FALSE: in the substitution theorem the continuity of ff may be weakened to integrability, fφf\circ\varphi still being integrable

Statement

False claim: let c<dc<d be reals, let φ:[c,d]R\varphi : [c,d] \to \mathbb{R} be differentiable at every point of [c,d][c,d] with φ\varphi' integrable, and let ff be Riemann integrable on an interval JJ containing φ[[c,d]]\varphi[\,[c,d]\,]. Then fφf\circ\varphi is Riemann integrable on [c,d][c,d] — so the hypothesis "ff is continuous" in Substitution: if φ\varphi is differentiable on [c,d][c,d] with φ\varphi' integrable and ff is continuous on an interval containing φ([c,d])\varphi([c,d]), then φ(c)φ(d)f=cd(fφ)φ\int_{\varphi(c)}^{\varphi(d)} f = \int_c^d (f\circ\varphi)\,\varphi' may be weakened to "ff is integrable" without the right-hand side cd(fφ)φ\int_c^d (f\circ\varphi)\varphi' losing its meaning.

The claim is false. Let S[0,1]S \subseteq [0,1] be the Smith-Volterra-Cantor set (The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set: the same construction removing, at stage n1n \ge 1, an open middle interval of length 4n4^{-n} from each of the 2n12^{n-1} remaining intervals), which is compact, nowhere dense and not null (The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set is compact, perfect and nowhere dense, and does not have measure zero), and let

dS(u)  :=  inf{us : sS},φ(x)  :=  0xdS(x[0,1]).d_S(u) \;:=\; \inf\{\, |u-s| \ : \ s \in S \,\} , \qquad \varphi(x) \;:=\; \int_0^x d_S \quad (x \in [0,1]) .

Then φ\varphi is differentiable at every point of [0,1][0,1] with φ=dS\varphi' = d_S continuous, hence integrable; φ\varphi is strictly increasing; and φ[S]\varphi[S] has measure zero. Taking

f  :=  1φ[S]on J:=[0, φ(1)]f \;:=\; \mathbf{1}_{\varphi[S]} \quad \text{on } J := \bigl[0,\ \varphi(1)\bigr]

gives an integrable ff, because its discontinuity set is contained in the null closed set φ[S]\varphi[S], while

fφ  =  1Son [0,1],f\circ\varphi \;=\; \mathbf{1}_{S} \quad \text{on } [0,1] ,

whose discontinuity set is exactly SS and is not null. So fφf\circ\varphi is not Riemann integrable.

What this does and does not show. It shows that continuity of ff in Substitution: if φ\varphi is differentiable on [c,d][c,d] with φ\varphi' integrable and ff is continuous on an interval containing φ([c,d])\varphi([c,d]), then φ(c)φ(d)f=cd(fφ)φ\int_{\varphi(c)}^{\varphi(d)} f = \int_c^d (f\circ\varphi)\,\varphi' cannot simply be weakened to integrability: the composite in the right-hand side need not be integrable. It does not exhibit a pair for which both sides of the substitution identity exist and differ, and no such pair is claimed here.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set S[0,1]S \subseteq [0,1], the function dSd_S and the function φ\varphi above, a real ε>0\varepsilon>0 and a natural number N1N \ge 1.

[L6]

A continuous w0w \ge 0 on [p,q][p,q] with p<qp<q and pqw=0\int_p^q w = 0 vanishes identically (A continuous f0f \ge 0 on [a,b][a,b] with abf=0\int_a^b f = 0 is identically 00).

[L8]

The continuous image of a compact set is compact, and a compact subset of R\mathbb{R} is closed and bounded (The image of a compact subset of R\mathbb{R} under a continuous real function is compact, A subset of R\mathbb{R} is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded).

[L10]

Finite sums: monotonicity in the terms and i<Nλ=ι(N)λ\sum_{i<N}\lambda = \iota(N)\lambda (Finite sums and finite products, by recursion, Laws of finite sums and finite products, clauses 2 and 4); ι(N)1>0\iota(N) \ge 1 > 0 for N1N \ge 1, and for every real η>0\eta>0 there is N1N \ge 1 with 1/ι(N)<η1/\iota(N)<\eta (The canonical natural ι(n)=n1F\iota(n) = n \cdot 1_F of a field, Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing, For every ε>0\varepsilon > 0 in a complete ordered field there is a natural n1n \ge 1 with 1/n<ε1/n < \varepsilon, Every complete ordered field is Archimedean).

[L11]

Ordered-field arithmetic and suprema: a nonempty bounded set has a supremum and an infimum; min{s,t}\min\{s,t\} is at most the average of ss and tt when s+ts+t is fixed; multiplying inequalities by positive reals preserves them; the order is total and transitive (Complete ordered field (least-upper-bound property), Ordered field, Greatest lower bound (infimum), Intervals of R\mathbb{R}: the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length, Injection, surjection, bijection).

Refutation

technique · direct
1.1

dS0d_S \ge 0 everywhere, dS(u)=0d_S(u) = 0 for uSu \in S, and dS(u)>0d_S(u) > 0 for uSu \notin S: SS is closed by [L1], so some ρ>0\rho>0 has (uρ,u+ρ)S=(u-\rho,u+\rho)\cap S = \varnothing, whence usρ|u-s| \ge \rho for every sSs \in S and dS(u)ρd_S(u) \ge \rho.

givenL1L3L11
2.1

dSd_S is continuous by [L3], hence integrable on every [0,x][0,x] with x>0x>0 by [L4]; so φ\varphi is defined on [0,1][0,1], and by [L5] it is differentiable at every point of [0,1][0,1] with φ=dS\varphi' = d_S, which is integrable by [L4].

step 1.1L3L4L5
3.1

φ\varphi is strictly increasing, hence injective. For 0x<y10 \le x < y \le 1, φ(y)φ(x)=xydS0\varphi(y)-\varphi(x) = \int_x^y d_S \ge 0 by [L5] and [L7]; if it were 00 then [L6] would force dS0d_S \equiv 0 on [x,y][x,y], so [x,y]S[x,y] \subseteq S by step 1.1, contradicting [L2]. Hence φ(x)<φ(y)\varphi(x)<\varphi(y). In particular φ(0)=0<φ(1)\varphi(0)=0<\varphi(1).

step 1.1step 2.1L2L5L6L7
3.2

A quadratic contraction on SS. Let x<yx<y both lie in SS. For u[x,y]u \in [x,y] one has dS(u)min{ux, yu}(yx)21d_S(u) \le \min\{u-x,\ y-u\} \le (y-x)\cdot 2^{-1}, since x,ySx,y \in S; so by [L5] and [L7], 0φ(y)φ(x)=xydS(yx)2210 \le \varphi(y)-\varphi(x) = \int_x^y d_S \le (y-x)^{2}\cdot 2^{-1}.

step 2.1L5L7L11
4.1

φ[S]\varphi[S] has content zero. Fix N1N \ge 1 and for i<Ni<N put Ji:=[ι(i)/ι(N), ι(i+1)/ι(N)]J_i := [\iota(i)/\iota(N),\ \iota(i+1)/\iota(N)], so the JiJ_i cover [0,1][0,1] and each has length 1/ι(N)1/\iota(N). If SJiS \cap J_i \ne \varnothing let Ei:=φ[SJi]E_i := \varphi[S \cap J_i], a nonempty bounded set, and put ai:=infEia_i := \inf E_i, bi:=supEib_i := \sup E_i; otherwise put ai:=bi:=0a_i := b_i := 0.

step 3.2L10L11construct
5.1

For z,wEiz,w \in E_i one has zw(1/ι(N))221|z-w| \le \bigl(1/\iota(N)\bigr)^{2}\cdot 2^{-1} by step 3.2, the two preimages lying in SJiS \cap J_i; hence biai+(1/ι(N))221b_i \le a_i + \bigl(1/\iota(N)\bigr)^{2}\cdot 2^{-1}, since every zEiz \in E_i is at most w+(1/ι(N))221w + (1/\iota(N))^{2}2^{-1} for each fixed ww, and then wbi(1/ι(N))221w \ge b_i - (1/\iota(N))^{2}2^{-1} for every ww.

step 3.2step 4.1L11
6.1

Every point of φ[S]\varphi[S] lies in some [ai,bi][a_i,b_i], because every point of SS lies in some JiJ_i; and i<N(biai)ι(N)(1/ι(N))221=1/(2ι(N))\sum_{i<N}(b_i-a_i) \le \iota(N)\cdot \bigl(1/\iota(N)\bigr)^{2}\cdot 2^{-1} = 1/\bigl(2\,\iota(N)\bigr) by [L10].

step 4.1step 5.1L10
7.1

Given ε>0\varepsilon>0, [L10] supplies N1N \ge 1 with 1/(2ι(N))ε1/(2\iota(N)) \le \varepsilon; so φ[S]\varphi[S] has content zero and therefore measure zero by [L9].

step 6.1L9L10
8.1

f:=1φ[S]f := \mathbf{1}_{\varphi[S]} is integrable on J=[0,φ(1)]J = [0,\varphi(1)]. It is bounded, with values in {0,1}\{0,1\}. SS is compact by [L1] and φ\varphi is continuous by [L5] and [L3], so φ[S]\varphi[S] is compact, hence closed, by [L8]; therefore at every zJφ[S]z \in J \setminus \varphi[S] some neighbourhood misses φ[S]\varphi[S] and ff vanishes on it, so ff is continuous there. The discontinuity set of ff is thus contained in φ[S]\varphi[S], which is null by step 7.1, so ff is integrable by [L9].

step 2.1step 7.1L1L3L8L9
9.1

fφ=1Sf\circ\varphi = \mathbf{1}_{S} on [0,1][0,1]. For x[0,1]x \in [0,1]: if xSx \in S then φ(x)φ[S]\varphi(x) \in \varphi[S] and f(φ(x))=1f(\varphi(x)) = 1; if xSx \notin S then φ(x)φ[S]\varphi(x) \notin \varphi[S], since φ\varphi is injective by step 3.1, and f(φ(x))=0f(\varphi(x)) = 0. Also φ[[0,1]]J\varphi[\,[0,1]\,] \subseteq J by step 3.1.

step 3.1step 8.1
10.1

1S\mathbf{1}_{S} is discontinuous at every point of SS. Let xSx \in S and ρ>0\rho>0; the set (xρ,x+ρ)(0,1)(x-\rho,x+\rho)\cap(0,1) contains a nonempty open interval, which by [L2] is not contained in SS, so some yy in it has 1S(y)=0\mathbf{1}_S(y) = 0 while 1S(x)=1\mathbf{1}_S(x)=1; no δ\delta works for ε=21\varepsilon = 2^{-1}. At xSx \notin S the function vanishes on a neighbourhood, SS being closed, so it is continuous there.

step 9.1L1L2L11
11.1

The discontinuity set of fφf\circ\varphi on [0,1][0,1] is therefore exactly SS, which is not null by [L1]; so fφf\circ\varphi is bounded and not Riemann integrable, by [L9].

step 9.1step 10.1L1L9
12.1

So φ\varphi is differentiable on [0,1][0,1] with φ\varphi' integrable, ff is integrable on an interval containing φ[[0,1]]\varphi[\,[0,1]\,], and fφf\circ\varphi is not integrable: the claim is false, and the continuity hypothesis on ff in Substitution: if φ\varphi is differentiable on [c,d][c,d] with φ\varphi' integrable and ff is continuous on an interval containing φ([c,d])\varphi([c,d]), then φ(c)φ(d)f=cd(fφ)φ\int_{\varphi(c)}^{\varphi(d)} f = \int_c^d (f\circ\varphi)\,\varphi' cannot be weakened to integrability.

step 2.1step 8.1step 9.1step 11.1

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