Friday, 29 June 2018

calculus - Example of a continuous and Gâteaux differentiable function that is not Fréchet differentiable.



Is there an example of a function f:R2R, with f(0,0)=0, that is Gâteaux differentiable (all directional derivatives exist) and continuous at (0,0), but is not Fréchet differentiable at (0,0)?



Edit: By Gâteaux differentiable, I use the definition that the Gâteaux derivative is not required to be a linear map, but just all the directional derivatives to exist in all directions.


Answer



Let f:R2R be given by

f(x,y)={xx0,y=x2,0else.


This function is directionally differentiable (with a linear derivative) and continuous in (0,0).



With your definition of Gâteaux differentiability, you can even use any norm on R2, e.g.,
f(x,y)=x2+y2


or
f(x,y)=|x|+|y|.


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