6 BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

If ti, 2 are sufficiently close and the Holder condition is satisfied

for some value of the index Aj, then it is evident that it is satisfied
for every index A < Aj. The converse, in general, is not true. Thus,
smaller is associated with a wider class of functions. The narrowest
class is the class of functions obeying the Lipschitz condition.
On the basis of the latter property it is easy to find that if the func-
tions ( , (0 satisfy the Holder condition with the indices Aj,
Aa, respectively, then their sum, product and quotient, under the
condition that the denominator does not vanish, satisfy the Holder
condition with the index = min(Ai, Ag).
If { is differentiable and has a finite derivative, it satisfies the
Lipschitz condition. This statement follows from the theorem of
finite increment. The converse, in general, is not true; this is shown
by the following example of a function given on the real axis:

The function ( ) satisfies the Lipschitz condition, but its deri-

vative does not exist at the origin of the coordinate system, since
the left and right derivatives there are equal to 1, + 1 , respectively.
For a complex function, with superposition of functional relation-
ships of different classes, the resultant function as a rule belongs to
the widest (worst) class of all circuit elements. One often comes across
analytic functions of functions which satisfy Holder's condition. Such
functions satisfy Holder's condition with the same indices. Proof is
obtained with direct verification having regard to the fact that the
analytic function satisfies the Lipschitz condition.
Let us present two more examples.
1. The function ( )= satisfies the condition with the index = i
on any interval of the real axis; if now this interval does not contain the origin,
this function is analytic on it and, consequently, it satisfies the Lipschitz con-
dition.
2. Consider the function ( )= l/lnx for 0 < j c ^ i , and (0) = 0. It is
readily observed that this function is continuous on the whole closed interval
(segment) 0 ^ jc ^ J. However, since lim x^lnx = 0 for any > 0, no matter
what are the values of A and , there can always be found a value of such that
^ > Ax^. Consequently, the function ( ) on the segment
under consideration does not satisfy the Holder condition.

In what follows we shall encounter problems in which the Holder

condition is satisfied on the contour everywhere, except for some