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On sets in ${\mathbb R}^d$ with DC distance function

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-06-24 v2

Abstract

We study closed sets FRdF \subset {\mathbb R}^d whose distance function dF:=dist(,F)d_F:= {\rm dist}\,(\cdot,F) is DC (i.e., is the difference of two convex functions on Rd{\mathbb R}^d). Our main result asserts that if FR2F \subset {\mathbb R}^2 is a graph of a DC function g:RRg:{\mathbb R}\to {\mathbb R}, then FF has the above property. If d>1d>1, the same holds if g:Rd1Rg:{\mathbb R}^{d-1}\to {\mathbb R} is semiconcave, however the case of a general DC function gg remains open.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12223,
  title  = {On sets in ${\mathbb R}^d$ with DC distance function},
  author = {Dušan Pokorný and Luděk Zajíček},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12223},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Some minor errors were corrected and the last section was considerably extended

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