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Whitney Extension Theorems for convex functions of the classes $C^1$ and $C^{1,\omega}$

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-10-11 v6 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Let CC be a subset of Rn\mathbb{R}^n (not necessarily convex), f:CRf:C\to\mathbb{R} be a function, and G:CRnG:C\to\mathbb{R}^n be a uniformly continuous function, with modulus of continuity ω\omega. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition on ff, GG for the existence of a convex function FC1,ω(Rn)F\in C^{1, \omega}(\mathbb{R}^n) such that F=fF=f on CC and F=G\nabla F=G on CC, with a good control of the modulus of continuity of F\nabla F in terms of that of GG. On the other hand, assuming that CC is compact, we also solve a similar problem for the class of C1C^1 convex functions on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, with a good control of the Lipschitz constants of the extensions (namely, Lip(F)G\textrm{Lip}(F)\lesssim \|G\|_{\infty}). Finally, we give a geometrical application concerning interpolation of compact subsets KK of Rn\mathbb{R}^n by boundaries of C1C^1 or C1,1C^{1,1} convex bodies with prescribed outer normals on KK.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03931,
  title  = {Whitney Extension Theorems for convex functions of the classes $C^1$ and $C^{1,\omega}$},
  author = {Daniel Azagra and Carlos Mudarra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03931},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Some additional comments and improvements suggested by a referee have been added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1501.05226