Tuesday, 27 November 2018

calculus - Derivative has finite, unequal left and right limits at a point; is the function non-differentiable at this point?

I have a short question, related to the ongoing search of mathematics instructors for counter-examples to common undergraduate mistakes.



The classical example of a function that is differentiable everywhere but has discontinuous derivative is
f(x)={x2sin(1/x)(x0),0(x=0),



which has derivative
f(x)={2xsin(1/x)cos(1/x)(x0),0(x=0).

f fails to be continuous at 0 purely because its left- and right-hand limits do not even exist at 0.




However, suppose that we have found a function g whose derivative g has finite but unequal left- and right-hand limits at some cluster point x0 in its domain. May we conclude that g is not differentiable at x0?



If this is not the case, is there a simple counter-example? (I'm guessing such a counter-example ought to be more complicated than the f I have given above, as f is sometimes claimed to be the simplest example of a differentiable function with discontinuous derivative.)



Thanks in advance!

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