Definable Lipschitz selections for affine-set valued maps
Abstract
Whitney's extension problem, i.e., how one can tell whether a function , , is the restriction of a -function on , was solved in full generality by Charles Fefferman in 2006. In this paper, we settle the -case of a related conjecture: given that is semialgebraic and is a semialgebraic modulus of continuity, if is the restriction of a -function then it is the restriction of a semialgebraic -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 -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, -H\"older solution, for any definable modulus of continuity ) 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