My textbook is asking me to solve this exercise. I thought this is trivial, but The author put ‘prove or disprove’. So I’m confusing.
Let f and g be a real-valued function on [a,b]. And assume that f and g are continuous almost everywhere on [a,b]. Prove or disprove : f+g is continuous almost everywhere.
I think this is true. If f is continuous at x and g is continuous at x, f+g is continuous at x. So if A is the set of points of discontinuity of f, and B is of g, then AUB contains the set C of discontinuous points of f+g, i.e. C is contained in AUB
By definition, A and B is of measure zero. And the sum of countably many measure zero sets is also of measure zero. So, AUB is of measure zero. Therefore C is of measure zero. So f+g is continuous almost everywhere.
Am I right?
Thanks