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On an old theorem of Erd\"os about ambiguous locus

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2021-09-10 v3

Abstract

Erd\"os proved in 1946 that if a set ERnE\subset\mathbb{R}^n is closed and non-empty, then the set, called ambiguous locus or medial axis, of points in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with the property that the nearest point in EE is not unique, can be covered by countably many surfaces, each of finite (n1)(n-1)-dimensional measure. We improve the result by obtaining a new regularity result for these surfaces in terms of convexity and C2C^2 regularity.

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@article{arxiv.2011.14508,
  title  = {On an old theorem of Erd\"os about ambiguous locus},
  author = {Piotr Hajłasz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.14508},
  year   = {2021}
}