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Real-valued functions of real variable, analytic properties of functions and sequences, limits, continuity, smoothness of these.

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Can Cantor set be the zero set of a continuous function?

It is a standard result that each closed subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ is a zero set of some smooth function on $\mathbb{R}^n$. One proves this using smooth bump functions and partitions of unity.
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Function with range equal to whole reals on every open set

See Conway's base 13 function.
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Inf of a mutivariate function

This is discussed briefly as a generalization of Shapiro's cyclic sum inequality by J. Michael Steele in his book The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class. He remarks that (1.) holds for $n\ge25$ and refers to …
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A Jordan arc in the unit disk

It's certainly the case that $\mathbb{R}^2\setminus J$ is path connected. So any two points in $D\setminus J$ are joined by a path in $\mathbb{R}^2$ missing $J$. If this path isn't in $D$ it hits the …
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