Constants in Hardy-Littlewood inequality for Dini derivatives












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I've been reading through some notes on Terence Tao's blog (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/245a-notes-5-differentiation-theorems/).



Lemma 56 states that for $F:[a,b]to mathbb{R}$ a continuous, monotonically increasing function that the Dini derivatives satisfy



$m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda }) leq frac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



(where $D^+(F)(x)$ is defined as $limsup_{hto 0^+} frac{F(x+h)-F(x)}{h}$)



It is mentioned that in the case that $F$ is not assumed to be continuous that one needs some constant



$m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda}) leq Cfrac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



One can prove this, for example, for $C=3$ with the Vitali covering lemma.



I'd like to construct a function $F$ which actually requires some $C>1$ for the inequality to hold, but am having some trouble doing so. It seems to me that to alter the value of $D^+(F)$ on a measurable set we need to add discontinuities to our function on some countable dense set. For example, we could pick some enumeration of the rationals between $[a,b]$ and alter a function $F$ by adding a jump of size $frac{1}{2^n}$ at each such rational. However, doing any calculations with this new function seems very difficult to me. Does anyone know of any monotonic functions $F$ which require a constant $C>1$ for the above inequality to hold?










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    I've been reading through some notes on Terence Tao's blog (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/245a-notes-5-differentiation-theorems/).



    Lemma 56 states that for $F:[a,b]to mathbb{R}$ a continuous, monotonically increasing function that the Dini derivatives satisfy



    $m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda }) leq frac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



    (where $D^+(F)(x)$ is defined as $limsup_{hto 0^+} frac{F(x+h)-F(x)}{h}$)



    It is mentioned that in the case that $F$ is not assumed to be continuous that one needs some constant



    $m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda}) leq Cfrac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



    One can prove this, for example, for $C=3$ with the Vitali covering lemma.



    I'd like to construct a function $F$ which actually requires some $C>1$ for the inequality to hold, but am having some trouble doing so. It seems to me that to alter the value of $D^+(F)$ on a measurable set we need to add discontinuities to our function on some countable dense set. For example, we could pick some enumeration of the rationals between $[a,b]$ and alter a function $F$ by adding a jump of size $frac{1}{2^n}$ at each such rational. However, doing any calculations with this new function seems very difficult to me. Does anyone know of any monotonic functions $F$ which require a constant $C>1$ for the above inequality to hold?










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      I've been reading through some notes on Terence Tao's blog (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/245a-notes-5-differentiation-theorems/).



      Lemma 56 states that for $F:[a,b]to mathbb{R}$ a continuous, monotonically increasing function that the Dini derivatives satisfy



      $m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda }) leq frac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



      (where $D^+(F)(x)$ is defined as $limsup_{hto 0^+} frac{F(x+h)-F(x)}{h}$)



      It is mentioned that in the case that $F$ is not assumed to be continuous that one needs some constant



      $m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda}) leq Cfrac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



      One can prove this, for example, for $C=3$ with the Vitali covering lemma.



      I'd like to construct a function $F$ which actually requires some $C>1$ for the inequality to hold, but am having some trouble doing so. It seems to me that to alter the value of $D^+(F)$ on a measurable set we need to add discontinuities to our function on some countable dense set. For example, we could pick some enumeration of the rationals between $[a,b]$ and alter a function $F$ by adding a jump of size $frac{1}{2^n}$ at each such rational. However, doing any calculations with this new function seems very difficult to me. Does anyone know of any monotonic functions $F$ which require a constant $C>1$ for the above inequality to hold?










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      I've been reading through some notes on Terence Tao's blog (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/245a-notes-5-differentiation-theorems/).



      Lemma 56 states that for $F:[a,b]to mathbb{R}$ a continuous, monotonically increasing function that the Dini derivatives satisfy



      $m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda }) leq frac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



      (where $D^+(F)(x)$ is defined as $limsup_{hto 0^+} frac{F(x+h)-F(x)}{h}$)



      It is mentioned that in the case that $F$ is not assumed to be continuous that one needs some constant



      $m({x in [a,b]: D^+(F)(x)>lambda}) leq Cfrac{F(b)-F(a)}{lambda}$



      One can prove this, for example, for $C=3$ with the Vitali covering lemma.



      I'd like to construct a function $F$ which actually requires some $C>1$ for the inequality to hold, but am having some trouble doing so. It seems to me that to alter the value of $D^+(F)$ on a measurable set we need to add discontinuities to our function on some countable dense set. For example, we could pick some enumeration of the rationals between $[a,b]$ and alter a function $F$ by adding a jump of size $frac{1}{2^n}$ at each such rational. However, doing any calculations with this new function seems very difficult to me. Does anyone know of any monotonic functions $F$ which require a constant $C>1$ for the above inequality to hold?







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