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FALSE: in the substitution theorem the continuity of may be weakened to integrability, still being integrable
Statement
False claim: let be reals, let be differentiable at every point of with integrable, and let be Riemann integrable on an interval containing . Then is Riemann integrable on — so the hypothesis " is continuous" in Substitution: if is differentiable on with integrable and is continuous on an interval containing , then may be weakened to " is integrable" without the right-hand side losing its meaning.
The claim is false. Let be the Smith-Volterra-Cantor set (The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set: the same construction removing, at stage , an open middle interval of length from each of the 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
Then is differentiable at every point of with continuous, hence integrable; is strictly increasing; and has measure zero. Taking
gives an integrable , because its discontinuity set is contained in the null closed set , while
whose discontinuity set is exactly and is not null. So is not Riemann integrable.
What this does and does not show. It shows that continuity of in Substitution: if is differentiable on with integrable and is continuous on an interval containing , then 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 , the function and the function above, a real and a natural number .
is a compact, nowhere dense subset of ; it is nonempty; and no cover of by intervals has total length below , so does not have measure zero (The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set: the same construction removing, at stage , an open middle interval of length from each of the remaining intervals, The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set is compact, perfect and nowhere dense, and does not have measure zero, Nowhere dense, meager (first category), residual, and second category subsets of , Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every ) and content zero (a finite such cover), A subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, Open cover, subcover, compact subset of (every open cover has a finite subcover), and sequentially compact subset).
Nowhere dense plus closed means empty interior: no nonempty open interval is contained in (Nowhere dense, meager (first category), residual, and second category subsets of , Interior, closure, boundary and exterior of a subset of , Open subset of (every point has a neighbourhood inside it), closed subset (complement open), and clopen).
is defined for every real (the set is nonempty and bounded below by ) and is -Lipschitz, hence continuous (, so the distance to a fixed nonempty set is -Lipschitz, Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space, The absolute value makes a metric space: is a metric, its open balls are the intervals , and it is unbounded, Dictionary: for with the metric , continuity and uniform continuity of agree with the metric-space notions, the Lipschitz and Hölder conditions are the metric ones instantiated, and a subset of is compact in the open-cover sense of exactly when it is a compact metric subspace, clauses 3 and 6, Greatest lower bound (infimum), Continuity of at a point of and on : the - condition, its agreement with at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point).
A continuous function on a closed bounded interval with distinct endpoints is integrable there (A continuous function on is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion, The lower and upper Darboux integrals of a bounded on as and , Darboux integrability as their equality, and the notation ).
First fundamental theorem: for integrable on and continuous at every point, is differentiable with derivative (The first fundamental theorem: if is integrable on and continuous at , then ; in particular a continuous has as a primitive, The integral function of an integrable , For : is integrable on if and only if it is integrable on and on , and then ; with the oriented form for arbitrary , The integral with oriented limits: and ).
A continuous on with and vanishes identically (A continuous on with is identically ).
If on with integrable then (If on and both are integrable then ; and , If on then for every partition ; in particular every constant function is integrable, with ).
The continuous image of a compact set is compact, and a compact subset of is closed and bounded (The image of a compact subset of under a continuous real function is compact, A subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded).
Lebesgue's criterion: a bounded function on is integrable if and only if its discontinuity set has measure zero; a set of content zero has measure zero (Lebesgue's criterion for Riemann integrability: a bounded on is Riemann integrable if and only if its set of discontinuities has measure zero, A set of content zero has measure zero, Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every ) and content zero (a finite such cover), Lower bound, bounded below, bounded set).
Finite sums: monotonicity in the terms and (Finite sums and finite products, by recursion, Laws of finite sums and finite products, clauses 2 and 4); for , and for every real there is with (The canonical natural of a field, Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing, For every in a complete ordered field there is a natural with , Every complete ordered field is Archimedean).
Ordered-field arithmetic and suprema: a nonempty bounded set has a supremum and an infimum; is at most the average of and when 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 : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length, Injection, surjection, bijection).
Refutation
everywhere, for , and for : is closed by [L1], so some has , whence for every and .
is continuous by [L3], hence integrable on every with by [L4]; so is defined on , and by [L5] it is differentiable at every point of with , which is integrable by [L4].
is strictly increasing, hence injective. For , by [L5] and [L7]; if it were then [L6] would force on , so by step 1.1, contradicting [L2]. Hence . In particular .
A quadratic contraction on . Let both lie in . For one has , since ; so by [L5] and [L7], .
has content zero. Fix and for put , so the cover and each has length . If let , a nonempty bounded set, and put , ; otherwise put .
For one has by step 3.2, the two preimages lying in ; hence , since every is at most for each fixed , and then for every .
Every point of lies in some , because every point of lies in some ; and by [L10].
Given , [L10] supplies with ; so has content zero and therefore measure zero by [L9].
is integrable on . It is bounded, with values in . is compact by [L1] and is continuous by [L5] and [L3], so is compact, hence closed, by [L8]; therefore at every some neighbourhood misses and vanishes on it, so is continuous there. The discontinuity set of is thus contained in , which is null by step 7.1, so is integrable by [L9].
on . For : if then and ; if then , since is injective by step 3.1, and . Also by step 3.1.
is discontinuous at every point of . Let and ; the set contains a nonempty open interval, which by [L2] is not contained in , so some in it has while ; no works for . At the function vanishes on a neighbourhood, being closed, so it is continuous there.
The discontinuity set of on is therefore exactly , which is not null by [L1]; so is bounded and not Riemann integrable, by [L9].
So is differentiable on with integrable, is integrable on an interval containing , and is not integrable: the claim is false, and the continuity hypothesis on in Substitution: if is differentiable on with integrable and is continuous on an interval containing , then cannot be weakened to integrability.
Remarks
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Why has to be built and cannot be a familiar function. The set on which misbehaves is of a null set, and for a Lipschitz with bounded away from that preimage is again null. What makes the witness work is that vanishes on the whole of , so crushes a set of positive measure onto a null set while remaining injective; step 3.2 is the quantitative form of that crushing.
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The substitution identity itself is not refuted here, and that is stated rather than glossed over. For this very pair one has , which is the zero function because vanishes on ; so the right-hand side of the substitution formula does exist for this pair and equals , as does the left-hand side. What fails is the intermediate claim that the composite is integrable, which is what a proof of the identity with merely integrable would have to establish, and which is what Substitution: if is differentiable on with integrable and is continuous on an interval containing , then 's continuity hypothesis delivers through If is integrable on with values in and is continuous on , then is integrable. No pair with both sides defined and unequal is exhibited anywhere on this page.
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The fat Cantor set is doing exactly one job. It supplies a closed set with empty interior that is not null. Any such set would serve; is the published one, and The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set is compact, perfect and nowhere dense, and does not have measure zero is what supplies all three properties without reproving them.
Depends on
- Substitution: if $\varphi$ is differentiable on $[c,d]$ with $\varphi'$ integrable and $f$ is continuous on an interval containing $\varphi([c,d])$, then $\int_{\varphi(c)}^{\varphi(d)} f = \int_c^d (f\circ\varphi)\,\varphi'$
- The first fundamental theorem: if $f$ is integrable on $[a,b]$ and continuous at $c$, then $F'(c) = f(c)$; in particular a continuous $f$ has $F$ as a primitive
- A continuous $f \ge 0$ on $[a,b]$ with $\int_a^b f = 0$ is identically $0$
- If $f \le g$ on $[a,b]$ and both are integrable then $\int_a^b f \le \int_a^b g$; and $m(b-a) \le \int_a^b f \le M(b-a)$
- If $m \le f \le M$ on $[a,b]$ then $m(b-a) \le L(f,P) \le \underline{\int_a^b} f \le \overline{\int_a^b} f \le U(f,P) \le M(b-a)$ for every partition $P$; in particular every constant function is integrable, with $\int_a^b c = c(b-a)$
- For $a<c<b$: $f$ is integrable on $[a,b]$ if and only if it is integrable on $[a,c]$ and on $[c,b]$, and then $\int_a^b f = \int_a^c f + \int_c^b f$; with the oriented form for arbitrary $a,b,c$
- The integral function $F(x) := \int_a^x f$ of an integrable $f$
- The integral with oriented limits: $\int_a^a f := 0$ and $\int_b^a f := -\int_a^b f$
- The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set: the same construction removing, at stage $n \ge 1$, an open middle interval of length $4^{-n}$ from each of the $2^{n-1}$ remaining intervals
- The Smith-Volterra-Cantor set is compact, perfect and nowhere dense, and does not have measure zero
- Nowhere dense, meager (first category), residual, and second category subsets of $\mathbb{R}$
- Interior, closure, boundary and exterior of a subset of $\mathbb{R}$
- $|d(x,A) - d(y,A)| \le d(x,y)$, so the distance to a fixed nonempty set is $1$-Lipschitz
- Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space
- The absolute value makes $\mathbb{R}$ a metric space: $d(x,y) = |x-y|$ is a metric, its open balls are the intervals $(x-r, x+r)$, and it is unbounded
- Dictionary: for $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ with the metric $d(x,y) = |x-y|$, continuity and uniform continuity of $f : A \to \mathbb{R}$ agree with the metric-space notions, the Lipschitz and Hölder conditions are the metric ones instantiated, and a subset of $\mathbb{R}$ is compact in the open-cover sense of $\mathbb{R}$ exactly when it is a compact metric subspace
- Open subset of $\mathbb{R}$ (every point has a neighbourhood inside it), closed subset (complement open), and clopen
- A continuous function on $[a,b]$ is Riemann integrable, by Heine-Cantor and Riemann's criterion
- The image of a compact subset of $\mathbb{R}$ under a continuous real function is compact
- A subset of $\mathbb{R}$ is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded
- Open cover, subcover, compact subset of $\mathbb{R}$ (every open cover has a finite subcover), and sequentially compact subset
- Lebesgue's criterion for Riemann integrability: a bounded $f$ on $[a,b]$ is Riemann integrable if and only if its set of discontinuities has measure zero
- Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every $\varepsilon$) and content zero (a finite such cover)
- A set of content zero has measure zero
- Finite sums and finite products, by recursion
- Laws of finite sums and finite products
- The canonical natural $\iota(n) = n \cdot 1_F$ of a field
- Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing
- For every $\varepsilon > 0$ in a complete ordered field there is a natural $n \ge 1$ with $1/n < \varepsilon$
- Every complete ordered field is Archimedean
- Continuity of $f : A \to \mathbb{R}$ at a point of $A$ and on $A$: the $\varepsilon$-$\delta$ condition, its agreement with $\lim_{x \to c} f(x) = f(c)$ at a limit point, and continuity at an isolated point
- The lower and upper Darboux integrals of a bounded $f$ on $[a,b]$ as $\sup_P L(f,P)$ and $\inf_P U(f,P)$, Darboux integrability as their equality, and the notation $\int_a^b f$
- Lower bound, bounded below, bounded set
- Greatest lower bound (infimum)
- Complete ordered field (least-upper-bound property)
- Ordered field
- Intervals of $\mathbb{R}$: the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
- Injection, surjection, bijection
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Sources
- Integration by substitution (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Smith–Volterra–Cantor set (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Charles C. Pugh, Real Mathematical Analysis, 2nd ed., Chapter 3, Exercise 35 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Charles C. Pugh, Real Mathematical Analysis, 2nd ed. (Lehman College faculty copy), Chapter 3, Exercise 35 (standard reference, not scraped)