A coordinate-free proof of the finiteness principle for Whitney's extension problem

DOI10.4171/RMI/1186zbMATH Open1471.46021arXiv1808.06658OpenAlexW3016524232MaRDI QIDQ1998689FDOQ1998689

Arie Israel, B. Klartag, Abraham Frei-Pearson, Jacob Carruth

Publication date: 7 March 2021

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a coordinate-free version of Fefferman's solution of Whitney's extension problem in the space $C^{m-1,1}(mathbb{R}^n)$. While the original argument relies on an elaborate induction on collections of partial derivatives, our proof uses the language of ideals and translation-invariant subspaces in the ring of polynomials. We emphasize the role of compactness in the proof, first in the familiar sense of topological compactness, but also in the sense of finiteness theorems arising in logic and semialgebraic geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06658

zbMATH Keywords

interpolationWhitney's extension problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous and differentiable maps in nonlinear functional analysis (46T20) Banach spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E15) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

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