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The Cantor function is continuous and nondecreasing, climbs from 00 to 11, and is constant on every interval removed in the construction of the Cantor set, so all of its increase happens on a set of measure zero

Remark

Collect what is now known about the Cantor function c:[0,1]Rc : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R} (The Cantor function on [0,1][0,1], defined on the Cantor set through ternary digits and extended constantly across each removed interval) and the Cantor set CC (The Cantor middle-thirds set as the intersection of the sets CnC_n obtained by removing open middle thirds).

All of the increase happens on CC, in the following exact sense. Let x<yx < y in [0,1][0,1] with c(x)<c(y)c(x) < c(y). Then (x,y)C(x,y) \cap C \ne \varnothing. Indeed, suppose (x,y)C=(x,y) \cap C = \varnothing and pick any tt with x<t<yx < t < y. Then tCt \notin C, so tt lies in the open interval (u,v)(u,v) of a pair u<vu < v of points of CC with (u,v)C=(u,v) \cap C = \varnothing, and cc is constant on [u,v][u,v]. Now u<t<yu < t < y, and uCu \in C, so u(x,y)u \notin (x,y) and therefore uxu \le x; symmetrically x<t<vx < t < v and vCv \in C give vyv \ge y. Hence [x,y][u,v][x,y] \subseteq [u,v] and c(x)=c(y)c(x) = c(y), contrary to assumption. So a nondegenerate interval on which cc actually rises must meet CC, a set of measure zero, while on the complement of CC the function is locally constant.

What is not claimed here. Nothing above says that cc is differentiable anywhere, that its derivative vanishes anywhere, or that cc is singular: no notion of derivative is available at this point in the reading order, and no notion of Lebesgue measure is developed in the library as it stands. Measure zero here is exactly Measure zero (a countable cover by intervals of total length below every ε\varepsilon) and content zero (a finite such cover), a condition on covers by intervals, and every statement above is a statement about cc, about CC, and about that covering condition, and about nothing else.

Why this is worth recording at all. A continuous nondecreasing function that climbs from 00 to 11 might be expected to do its climbing on a set that is large in some sense; cc does all of it on a set that is null and, being nowhere dense (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, claim 5), small in category as well. The companion page pushes the same observation one step further: cc maps the null set CC onto the whole of [0,1][0,1].

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