# A function $f$ that is not in any $L^p$ but the measure of $\{|f|>t\}$ is bounded by $C/t$

How can I find a function $f$ such that $f \notin L^{p} (\mathbb{R})$ for all $p$ but you can find a constant $c>0$ for it with

$m(x \in \mathbb{R} \, s.t. |f(x)|>t) \leq \frac{c}{t}$ for $\forall t$

I tried $f(x)={1 \over x^2}$ since $f \notin L^{p} (\mathbb{R})$ for all $p$, but it looks like this is not the right answer. I guess we could use the Chevyshev's inequality on $f(x)$ , the measure theoretic one (see Section Measure-theoretic statement in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality)

• What is $p$? ${}{}{}$ – copper.hat Oct 16 '15 at 15:54
• Do you mean $| f(x) | > t$ instead of $|f (x) > t|$? – Hetebrij Oct 16 '15 at 15:56
• Perhaps you can tell us what you tried for $f.$ – zhw. Oct 16 '15 at 16:05
• @copper.hat for all $p$ – Susan_Math123 Oct 16 '15 at 16:19
• You didn't try $f(x) = 1/x$? – zhw. Oct 16 '15 at 16:22

Let $f(x) = 1/x, x \ne 0.$ Then $f\not \in L^p(\mathbb {R}), 0 < p \le \infty,$ but $m(\{x: |f(x)| > t\}) = 2/t$ for all $t>0.$