Generic nowhere differentiability along unit speed curves

Let UU be a bounded open set in Rd{\mathbb R}^d. Write C(U)C(\overline U) for the space of continuous real-valued functions on U\overline U, and let GδG_\delta denote a countable intersection of open sets. Genericity conjecture. The set of functions in C(U)C(\overline U) whose restriction to each C1C^1 unit speed curve is nowhere differentiable contains a dense GδG_\delta subset. The first conjecture asks for existence on all of Rd{\mathbb R}^d, whereas this conjecture asserts genericity on a bounded domain; the preceding theorem only proves the corresponding statement for curves with additional Hölder regularity of the derivative.

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Maria Girardi and Ralph Howard, “Continuous nowhere differentiable multivariate functions”, arXiv:2510.13061 (2025).

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