Mathematics – Classical Analysis and ODEs
Scientific paper
2011-07-04
J. Math. Anal. Appl. 388, 1117-1129 (2012)
Mathematics
Classical Analysis and ODEs
New title and some minor corrections; 27 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
Let T be Takagi's continuous but nowhere-differentiable function. It is known that almost all level sets (with respect to Lebesgue measure on the range of T) are finite. We show that the most common cardinality of the level sets of T is two, and investigate in detail the set of ordinates y such that the level set at level y has precisely two elements. As a by-product, we obtain a simple iterative procedure for solving the equation T(x)=y. We show further that any positive even integer occurs as the cardinality of some level set, and investigate which cardinalities occur with positive probability if an ordinate y is chosen at random from the range of T. The key to the results is a system of set equations for the level sets, which are derived from the partial self-similarity of T. These set equations yield a system of linear relationships between the cardinalities of level sets at various levels, from which all the results of this paper flow.
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