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Part CCSIR NET December 2024oddness-makes-the-restriction-linear-not-just-positively-homogeneous

Oddness makes the restriction linear not just positively homogeneous

Let g be a real-valued continuous function on the set { | } such that g(0, 1) = g(1, 0) = 0 and g(−x, −y) = −g(x, y). Define by if (x, y) ≠ (0, 0), and f(x, y) = 0 if (x, y) = (0, 0). For each , define by h_(a,b)(t) = f(ta, tb). Which of the following statements are necessarily true?

  1. A.The function h_(a,b) is differentiable on for each .
  2. B.There exists such that h_(a,b) is not differentiable at t = 0.
  3. C.The function f is differentiable at the point (0, 0).
  4. D.If the function f is differentiable at (0, 0) then g is identically zero.

You have the answer. Trap Analysis is why the other three were written.

Not a worked solution repeated four times — the specific reasoning error each wrong option was built to reward.

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Related counterexample: If all partial derivatives exist at a point then f is continuous there

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The chapter behind this: Differentiability in several variables — free to read

From Functions of Several VariablesPartial derivatives, differentiability, chain rule

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