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In this paper, we generalize a bi-Lipschitz extension result of David and Semmes from Euclidean spaces to complete metric measure spaces with controlled geometry (Ahlfors regularity and supporting a Poincaré inequality). In particular, we find sharp conditions on metric measure spaces X so that any bi-Lipschitz embedding of a subset of the real line into X extends to a bi-Lipschitz embedding of the whole line. Along the way, we prove that if the complement of an open subset Y of X has small Assouad dimension, then it is a uniform domain. Finally, we prove a quantitative approximation of continua in X by bi-Lipschitz curves.
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Quantitative decompositions of Lipschitz mappings into metric spaces
We study the quantitative properties of Lipschitz mappings from Euclidean spaces into metric spaces. We prove that it is always possible to decompose the domain of such a mapping into pieces on which the mapping “behaves like a projection mapping” along with a “garbage set” that isarbitrarily smallin an appropriate sense. Moreover, our control is quantitative, i.e., independent of both the particular mapping and the metric space it maps into. This improves a theorem of Azzam-Schul from the paper “Hard Sard”, and answers a question left open in that paper. The proof uses ideas of quantitative differentiation, as well as a detailed study of how to supplement Lipschitz mappings by additional coordinates to form bi-Lipschitz mappings.
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- PAR ID:
- 10502192
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Mathematical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- Volume:
- 376
- Issue:
- 1071
- ISSN:
- 0002-9947
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 5521 to 5571
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8930
