On some nested floor functions and their jump discontinuities

Abstract

This paper investigates some particular limits involving nested floor functions. We'll prove some cases and then we'll show a more general result. Then we'll count the discontinuity points of those functions, and we'll prove a method to find them all. Surprisingly the set of the jump discontinuities of $f_n$ is a subset of the set of the jump discontinuities of $f_{n+1}$, $\forall n\in {\mathbb{Z}}^{+}$ where: \[ f_n(x)=\underbrace{\Biggl\lfloor x\Bigl\lfloor x \lfloor\dots\rfloor\Bigr\rfloor\Biggr\rfloor}_{\text{$n$ times}} \] Furthermore we'll give some generalizations of the result and lots of considerations; for example we'll prove that the cardinality of the set of the discontinuities of $f_n$ in a given limited interval approaches infinity as $n\to \infty$.

12 pages, 3 figures