TY - JOUR
T1 - Distinct Continuous Maps with All Riemann Sums Equal
AU - Ciesielski, Krzysztof Chris
AU - Liu, Yichen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/20
Y1 - 2020/10/20
N2 - Do examples as in the title exist? It depends on how the term Riemann sum is understood. For the standard, left, or right Riemann sums such examples do not exist. However, as we will see, they do exist for the lower and upper Riemann sums. Nevertheless, there are only a few examples of such pairs and they have a very simple structure. In this article, we describe all such pairs among Riemann integrable functions from an interval (Formula presented.) into (Formula presented.). We also show that such pairs have an especially nice format when we restrict our attention to continuous maps. All the arguments presented are elementary. In particular, the part concerning continuous functions is self-contained and presented in a format accessible to good undergraduate students.
AB - Do examples as in the title exist? It depends on how the term Riemann sum is understood. For the standard, left, or right Riemann sums such examples do not exist. However, as we will see, they do exist for the lower and upper Riemann sums. Nevertheless, there are only a few examples of such pairs and they have a very simple structure. In this article, we describe all such pairs among Riemann integrable functions from an interval (Formula presented.) into (Formula presented.). We also show that such pairs have an especially nice format when we restrict our attention to continuous maps. All the arguments presented are elementary. In particular, the part concerning continuous functions is self-contained and presented in a format accessible to good undergraduate students.
KW - MSC: Primary 26A42
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U2 - 10.1080/00029890.2020.1807290
DO - 10.1080/00029890.2020.1807290
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093069215
SN - 0002-9890
VL - 127
SP - 807
EP - 819
JO - American Mathematical Monthly
JF - American Mathematical Monthly
IS - 9
ER -