English

Quantitative tame properties of differentiable functions with controlled derivatives

Functional Analysis 2023-09-04 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that differentiable functions, defined on a convex body KRdK \subseteq \mathbb R^d, whose derivatives do not exceed a suitable given sequence of positive real numbers share many properties with polynomials. The role of the degree of a polynomial is hereby played by an integer associated with the given sequence of reals, the diameter of KK, and a real parameter linked to the C0C^0-norm of the function. We give quantitative information on the size of the zero set, show that it admits a local parameterization by Sobolev functions, and prove an inequality of Remez-type. From the latter, we deduce several consequences, for instance, a bound on the volume of sublevel sets and a comparison of LpL^p-norms reversing H\"older's inequality. The validity of many of the results only depends on the derivatives up to some finite order; the order can be specified in terms of the given data.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.04006,
  title  = {Quantitative tame properties of differentiable functions with controlled derivatives},
  author = {Armin Rainer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04006},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

27 pages; a mistake in the formulation of Theorem 5.5 was corrected and related changes were made; exposition (mainly of Section 5) improved; some minor additions and notational changes made, accepted for publication in Nonlinear Analysis