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Kirszbraun extensions preserving uniform distance in Hilbert spaces

Functional Analysis 2026-07-20 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let XX be a subset of a real Hilbert space and let v ⁣:XYv\colon X\to Y, where YY is a real Hilbert space. We prove that the following conditions are equivalent: whenever AXA\subset X, ρ0\rho\geq0, and u ⁣:AYu\colon A\to Y is 11-Lipschitz with u(x)v(x)ρ\left\lVert u(x)-v(x)\right\lVert\leq\rho for xAx\in A, there is a 11-Lipschitz extension u~ ⁣:XY\widetilde u\colon X\to Y with u~(x)v(x)ρ\left\lVert \widetilde u(x)-v(x)\right \lVert\leq\rho for xXx\in X; and for every 1kdimY1\leq k\leq\dim Y, v(x0)i=1ktiv(xi)x0i=1ktixi \left\lVert v(x_0)-\sum_{i=1}^k t_i v(x_i)\right\lVert \leq \left\lVert x_0-\sum_{i=1}^k t_i x_i \right \lVert whenever x0,,xkXx_0,\ldots,x_k\in X, t1,,tk0t_1,\ldots,t_k\geq0, and i=1kti=1\sum_{i=1}^k t_i=1. Previous necessity results required dimY3\dim Y\leq3 or convexity of XX. For finite-dimensional targets, an application gives an exact data processing characterisation for a finite branching hierarchy connecting Wasserstein and barycentric weak transport. If YY is infinite-dimensional or dimAffX+1dimY\dim\operatorname{Aff}X+1\leq\dim Y, we also obtain a lifting theorem for convex Lipschitz functions and transfer convex Poincar\'e inequalities without increasing the constant.

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@article{arxiv.2607.17672,
  title  = {Kirszbraun extensions preserving uniform distance in Hilbert spaces},
  author = {Krzysztof J. Ciosmak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.17672},
  year   = {2026}
}

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