Central limit theorem for generalized Weierstrass functions

Let [Formula: see text] be a [Formula: see text] expanding map of the circle and let [Formula: see text] be a [Formula: see text] function. Consider the twisted cohomological equation [Formula: see text] which has a unique bounded solution [Formula: see text]. We show that [Formula: see text] is either [Formula: see text] or continuous but nowhere differentiable. If [Formula: see text] is nowhere differentiable then the Newton quotients of [Formula: see text], after an appropriated normalization, converges in distribution (with respect to the unique absolutely continuous invariant probability of [Formula: see text]) to the normal distribution. In particular, [Formula: see text] is not a Lipschitz continuous function on any subset with positive Lebesgue measure.

On regularized distance and related functions

SynopsisLetFbe any closed subset of ℝN. Stein's regularized distance is a smooth (C∞) function, defined on the complementcF, that approximates the distance fromFof any pointx ∈cFin the manner shown by the inequalities (*) in the Introduction below. In this paper we use a method different from Stein's to construct a one-parameter family of smooth approximations to any positive Lipschitz continuous function, with the effect that the constants in (*) can be made arbitrarily close to 1. It is shown that partial derivatives of order two or more, while necessarily unbounded, are best possible in order of magnitude.