The directional dimension of subanalytic sets is invariant under bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms (Q848130): Difference between revisions

Let \(A\) be a subanalytic set-germ at \(0\in \mathbb{R}^{n}\) such that \(0\in \bar{A}.\) The authors find a new invariant of \(A\) under bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms. Namely, it is the dimension of the direction set \(D(A)\) of \(A \) at \(0\). By definition it is the set of \(r\in S^{n-1}\) for which there exists a sequence of \(x_{i}\in A\setminus \{0\}\) such that \(x_{i}\to 0\) and \(x_i /\|x_i\| \to r\) (it is the intersection of a Whitney tangent cone to \(A\) at \(0\) with the unit sphere).