Kirszbraun extensions preserving uniform distance in Hilbert spaces
Functional Analysis
2026-07-20 v1 Metric Geometry
Abstract
Let be a subset of a real Hilbert space and let , where is a real Hilbert space. We prove that the following conditions are equivalent: whenever , , and is -Lipschitz with for , there is a -Lipschitz extension with for ; and for every , whenever , , and . Previous necessity results required or convexity of . For finite-dimensional targets, an application gives an exact data processing characterisation for a finite branching hierarchy connecting Wasserstein and barycentric weak transport. If is infinite-dimensional or , 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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17 pages; comments are welcome