We comment on a problem of Mazur from “The Scottish Book" concerning second partial derivatives. We prove that if a function f(x,y) of real variables defined on a rectangle has continuous derivative with respect to y and for almost all y the function $F_y\left(x\right):=f_y^{\text{'}}(x,y)$ has finite variation, then almost everywhere on the rectangle the partial derivative $f_{yx}^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ exists. We construct a separately twice differentiable function whose partial derivative $f_x^{\text{'}}$ is discontinuous with respect to the second variable on a set of positive...

In this paper two Denjoy type extensions of the Pettis integral are defined and studied. These integrals are shown to extend the Pettis integral in a natural way analogous to that in which the Denjoy integrals extend the Lebesgue integral for real-valued functions. The connection between some Denjoy type extensions of the Pettis integral is examined.

Absolutely continuous functions of n variables were recently introduced by J. Malý [5]. We introduce a more general definition, suggested by L. Zajíček. This new absolute continuity also implies continuity, weak differentiability with gradient in Lⁿ, differentiability almost everywhere and the area formula. It is shown that our definition does not depend on the shape of balls in the definition.

For a Lebesgue integrable complex-valued function $f$ defined on ${ℝ}^{+}:=[0,\infty )$ let $\widehat{f}$ be its Walsh-Fourier transform. The Riemann-Lebesgue lemma says that $\widehat{f}\left(y\right)\to 0$ as $y\to \infty$. But in general, there is no definite rate at which the Walsh-Fourier transform tends to zero. In fact, the Walsh-Fourier transform of an integrable function can tend to zero as slowly as we wish. Therefore, it is interesting to know for functions of which subclasses of $L^1\left({ℝ}^{+}\right)$ there is a definite rate at which the Walsh-Fourier transform tends to zero. We...

We study the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator defined via an unconditional norm, acting on block decreasing functions. We show that the uncentered maximal operator maps block decreasing functions of special bounded variation to functions with integrable distributional derivatives, thus improving their regularity. In the special case of the maximal operator defined by the ${\ell }_{\infty }$-norm, that is, by averaging over cubes, the result extends to block decreasing functions of bounded variation, not necessarily...

This article studies an integral representation of functionals of linear growth on metric measure spaces with a doubling measure and a Poincaré inequality. Such a functional is defined via relaxation, and it defines a Radon measure on the space. For the singular part of the functional, we get the expected integral representation with respect to the variation measure. A new feature is that in the representation for the absolutely continuous part, a constant appears already in the weighted Euclidean...

We study properties of the functional$$\begin{array}{c}\hfill {ℱ}_{\mathrm{loc}}(u,\Omega ):=\underset{\left(u_j\right)}{inf}\left\{\underset{j\to \infty }{lim\; inf}{\int }_{\Omega }f\left(\nabla u_j\right)x\left|\begin{array}{cc}& \left(u_j\right)\subset W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,r}\left(\Omega ,\right)\hfill \\ & u_{j}u\mathrm{in}\left(\Omega ,\right)\hfill \end{array}\right.\right\},\end{array}$$F loc ( u,Ω ) : = inf ( u j ) lim inf j → ∞ ∫ Ω f ( ∇ u j ) d x , whereu ∈ BV(Ω;RN), and f:RN × n → R is continuous and satisfies 0 ≤ f(ξ) ≤ L(1 + | ξ | r). For r ∈ [1,2), assuming f has linear growth in certain rank-one directions, we combine a result of [A. Braides and A. Coscia, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 124 (1994) 737–756] with a new technique involving mollification to prove an upper bound for Floc. Then, for $r\in [1,\frac{n}{n-1})$ r ∈ [ 1 , n n − 1 ) , we prove that...

We prove a characterisation of sets with finite perimeter and $BV$ functions in terms of the short time behaviour of the heat semigroup in ${\mathbf{R}}^N$. For sets with smooth boundary a more precise result is shown.

In this note we prove that on metric measure spaces, functions of least gradient, as well as local minimizers of the area functional (after modification on a set of measure zero) are continuous everywhere outside their jump sets. As a tool, we develop some stability properties of sequences of least gradient functions. We also apply these tools to prove a maximum principle for functions of least gradient that arise as solutions to a Dirichlet problem.

In dimension one it is proved that the solution to a total variation-regularized least-squares problem is always a function which is "constant almost everywhere" , provided that the data are in a certain sense outside the range of the operator to be inverted. A similar, but weaker result is derived in dimension two.

In the paper, the generalization of the Du Bois-Reymond lemma for functions of two variables to the case of partial derivatives of any order is proved. Some application of this theorem to the coercive Dirichlet problem is given.

Some relationships between the vector valued Henstock and McShane integrals are investigated. An integral for vector valued functions, defined by means of partitions of the unity (the PU-integral) is studied. In particular it is shown that a vector valued function is McShane integrable if and only if it is both Pettis and PU-integrable. Convergence theorems for the Henstock variational and the PU integrals are stated. The families of multipliers for the Henstock and the Henstock variational integrals...

We show that any uniformly continuous and convex compact valued Nemytskiĭ composition operator acting in the spaces of functions of bounded φ-variation in the sense of Riesz is generated by an affine function.

We obtain improved regularity of homeomorphic solutions of the reduced Beltrami equation, as compared to the standard Beltrami equation. Such an improvement is not possible in terms of Hölder or Sobolev regularity; instead, our results concern the generalized variation of restrictions to lines. Specifically, we prove that the restriction to any line segment has finite p-variation for all p > 1 but not necessarily for p = 1.

We study the relationship between derivates and variational measures of additive functions defined on families of figures or bounded sets of finite perimeter. Our results, valid in all dimensions, include a generalization of Ward’s theorem, a necessary and sufficient condition for derivability, and full descriptive definitions of certain conditionally convergent integrals.