On the core of a low dimensional set-valued mapping (Q2104852)

Summary: Let \(\mathfrak{M} = (\mathcal{M}, \rho)\) be a metric space and let \(X\) be a Banach space. Let \(F\) be a set-valued mapping from \(\mathcal{M}\) into the family \(\mathcal{K}_m (X)\) of all compact convex subsets of \(X\) of dimension at most \(m\). The main result in our recent joint paper with Charles Fefferman (which is referred to as a ``finiteness principle for Lipschitz selections'') provides efficient conditions for the existence of a Lipschitz selection of \(F\), i.e., a Lipschitz mapping \(f: \mathcal{M} \to X\) such that \(f (x) \in F (x)\) for every \(x \in \mathcal{M}\). We give new alternative proofs of this result in two special cases. When \(m = 2\), we prove it for \(X = \mathbb{R}^2\), and when \(m = 1\) we prove it for all choices of \(X\). Both of these proofs make use of a simple reiteration formula for the ``core'' of a set-valued mapping \(F\), i.e., for a mapping \(G: \mathcal{M} \to \mathcal{K}_m (X)\) which is Lipschitz with respect to the Hausdorff distance, and such that \(G (x) \subset F (x)\) for all \(x \in \mathcal{M}\).