English

A geometric second-order-rectifiable stratification for closed subsets of Euclidean space

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-09-27 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Defining the mm-th stratum of a closed subset of an nn dimensional Euclidean space to consist of those points, where it can be touched by a ball from at least nmn-m linearly independent directions, we establish that the mm-th stratum is second-order rectifiable of dimension mm and a Borel set. This was known for convex sets, but is new even for sets of positive reach. The result is based on a new criterion for second-order rectifiability.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.09561,
  title  = {A geometric second-order-rectifiable stratification for closed subsets of Euclidean space},
  author = {Ulrich Menne and Mario Santilli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09561},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

13 pages. v2: corrected a typographical error in the introduction, and updated the affiliation of the first author

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:59:20.639Z