A function which is arc-analytic but not continuous

Bierstone, E.; Milman, P. D.; Parusiński, A.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1991-1072083-4

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A function which is arc-analytic but not continuous
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 113 (1991), 419-423 Request permission

Abstract:

We construct an arc-analytic function (i.e., a function analytic on every real analytic arc) which is not continuous, as well as a continuous arc-analytic function which is not subanalytic.

References

Edward Bierstone and Pierre D. Milman, Arc-analytic functions, Invent. Math. 101 (1990), no. 2, 411–424. MR 1062969, DOI 10.1007/BF01231509