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Definable Lipschitz selections for affine-set valued maps

Logic 2025-07-02 v3 Algebraic Geometry Classical Analysis and ODEs Functional Analysis

Abstract

Whitney's extension problem, i.e., how one can tell whether a function f:XRf : X \to \mathbb R, XRnX \subseteq \mathbb R^n, is the restriction of a CmC^m-function on Rn\mathbb R^n, was solved in full generality by Charles Fefferman in 2006. In this paper, we settle the C1,ωC^{1,\omega}-case of a related conjecture: given that ff is semialgebraic and ω\omega is a semialgebraic modulus of continuity, if ff is the restriction of a C1,ωC^{1,\omega}-function then it is the restriction of a semialgebraic C1,ωC^{1,\omega}-function. We work in the more general setting of sets that are definable in an o-minimial expansion of the real field. An ingenious argument of Brudnyi and Shvartsman relates the existence of C1,ωC^{1,\omega}-extensions to the existence of Lipschitz selections of certain affine-set valued maps. We show that if a definable affine-set valued map has Lipschitz selections then it also has definable Lipschitz selections. In particular, we obtain a Lipschitz solution (more generally, ω\omega-H\"older solution, for any definable modulus of continuity ω\omega) of the definable Brenner-Epstein-Hochster-Koll\'ar problem. In most of our results we have control over the respective (semi)norms.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09155,
  title  = {Definable Lipschitz selections for affine-set valued maps},
  author = {Adam Parusiński and Armin Rainer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09155},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages; minor changes, Remark 4.10 added; final version

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