Monday, 21 January 2019

real analysis - Antiderivative of discontinuous function



I am having confusion regarding anti-derivative of a function.



f(x)={x22+4x0x22+2x>0




Consider the domain [1,2].
Clearly the function is Riemann integrable as it is discontinuous at finite number of point. However is there a function g(x) such that g(x)=f(x)x[1,2] ?


Answer



There is no such function, because by Darboux's theorem (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darboux's_theorem_(analysis) ), every derivative has to fulfill the intermediate value theorem, but f does not.


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