Differentiable approximation of continuous semialgebraic maps

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Abstract: In this work we approach the problem of approximating uniformly continuous semialgebraic maps f:SoT from a compact semialgebraic set S to an arbitrary semialgebraic set T by semialgebraic maps g:SoT that are differentiable of class~mathcalCu for a fixed integer ugeq1. As the reader can expect, the difficulty arises mainly when one tries to keep the same target space after approximation. For u=1 we give a complete affirmative solution to the problem: such a uniform approximation is always possible. For ugeq2 we obtain density results in the two following relevant situations: either T is compact and locally mathcalCu semialgebraically equivalent to a polyhedron, for instance when T is a compact polyhedron; or T is an open semialgebraic subset of a Nash set, for instance when T is a Nash set. Our density results are based on a recent mathcalC1-triangulation theorem for semialgebraic sets due to Ohmoto and Shiota, and on new approximation techniques we develop in the present paper. Our results are sharp in a sense we specify by explicit examples.



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