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Restrictions of smooth functions to a closed subset

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2011-02-15 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We first provide an approach to the recent conjecture of Bierstone-Milman-Pawlucki on Whitney's old problem on smooth extendability of functions defined on a closed subset of a Euclidean space, using higher order paratangent bundle they introduced. For example, the conjecture is affirmative for classical fractal sets. Next, we give a sharpened form of Spallek's theorem on controllability of flatness by the values on a closed set. The multi-dimensional Vandermonde matrix plays an important role in both cases.

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@article{arxiv.math/0312226,
  title  = {Restrictions of smooth functions to a closed subset},
  author = {Shuzo Izumi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0312226},
  year   = {2011}
}

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16 pages