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Year
2017
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
17-25
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Section Mathematics
Title Global extrema of the Gray Takagi function of Kobayashi and binary digital sums
Author(-s) Galkin O.E.a, Galkina S.Yu.a
Affiliations Nizhni Novgorod State Universitya
Abstract The Gray Takagi function $\widetilde{T}(x)$ was defined by Kobayashi in 2002 for calculation of Gray code digital sums. By construction, the Gray Takagi function is similar to the Takagi function, described in 1903. Like the Takagi function, the Gray Takagi function of Kobayashi is continuous, but nowhere differentiable on the real axis. In this paper, we prove that the global maximum for the Gray Takagi function of Kobayashi is equal to $8/15$, and on the segment $[0;2]$ it is reached at those and only those points of the interval $(0;1)$, whose hexadecimal record contains only digits $4$ or $8$. We also show that the global minimum of $\widetilde{T}(x)$ is equal to $-8/15$, and on the segment $[0;2]$ it is reached at those and only those points of the interval $(1;2)$, whose hexadecimal record contains only digits $7$ or $\langle11\rangle$. In addition, we calculate the global minimum of the Gray Takagi function on the segment $[1/2;1]$ and get the value $-2/15$. We find global extrema and extreme points of the function $\log_2 x + \widetilde{T} (x)/x$. By using the results obtained, we get the best estimation of Gray code digital sums from Kobayashi's formula.
Keywords continuous nowhere differentiable Gray Takagi function of Kobayashi, global maximum, global extremum, Gray code binary digital sums
UDC 517.518
MSC 26A27, 26A06
DOI 10.20537/vm170102
Received 1 February 2017
Language Russian
Citation Galkin O.E., Galkina S.Yu. Global extrema of the Gray Takagi function of Kobayashi and binary digital sums, Vestnik Udmurtskogo Universiteta. Matematika. Mekhanika. Komp'yuternye Nauki, 2017, vol. 27, issue 1, pp. 17-25.
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