On the structure of level sets of uniform and Lipschitz quotient mappings from \(\mathbb R^n\) to \(\mathbb R\) (Q1430517)

The target of the paper is a detailed study of the structure of level sets of uniform and Lipschitz quotient mappings from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) to \(\mathbb{R}\). It is shown that if \(f: \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}\), for \(n> 2\), is a uniform mapping, then for every \(t\in\mathbb{R}\) the inverse mapping \(f^{-1}(t)\) has a bounded number of components with the upper bound depending on \(n\) and the moduli of co-uniform and uniform continuity of \(f\). Further it is proved that all level sets of any Lipschitz uniformly continuous mapping from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) to \(\mathbb{R}\) are locally connected and for every pair of a constant \(c> 0\) and a function \(\Omega\), such that \(\lim_{r\to 0}\Omega(r)= 0\), there exists a natural number \(M\), such that for every co-Lipschitz uniformly continuous mapping \(\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}\) with a co-Lipschitz constant \(c\) and a modulus of uniform continuity \(\Omega\), there exists a natural number \(n(f)\geq M\) and a finite set \(T_f\subset\mathbb{R}\) with cardinality less or equal to \(n(f)-1\) such that all \(r\in\mathbb{R}\setminus T_f\), \(f^{-1}(t)\) has exactly \(n(f)\) components, \(\mathbb{R}\setminus f^{-1}(t)\) has exactly \(n(f) +1\) components and each component of \(f^{-1}(t)\) is homeomorphic with a real line and separates the plane into exactly 2 components. The number and finite tree structure of components \(f^{-1}(s)\) for \(s\in T_f\) are also described.