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Approximate Continuity and Differentiation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The relation between the notions of measurability and continuity of a function has received a great deal of attention. The best-known result in this connection is the Vitali-Lusin theorem. Various versions of it can be found in (2; 3; 5; 8; 9). We prove one in this paper (Theorem 3.5) under very weak assumptions and state the classical one in Corollary 3.6. Functions satisfying the property stated in the theorem are frequently called quasicontinuous.
Here we are interested in the notion of approximate continuity, which we call μ-continuity for short and which is closely connected to differentiation. It was first introduced by Lebesgue (4) and it has so far required knowledge of density theorems in order to prove its relation to measurability. In this paper, making use of a certain type of Vitali property, we prove first the relation between μ-measurable functions and those μ-continuous almost everywhere (Theorems 3.8 and 3.9). Then, in §4, with Theorem 3.8 as the main tool, we derive several theorems about density and differentiation which extend results found in (1; 3; 7; 8).
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