Minimal extension for the \(\alpha\)-Manhattan norm (Q6203817)

Summary: Let \(\partial \mathcal{Q}\) be the boundary of a convex polygon in \(\mathbb{R}^2\), \(e_{\alpha} = (\cos \alpha, \sin \alpha)\) and \(e^{\bot}_{\alpha} =(-\sin \alpha, \cos \alpha)\) a basis of \(\mathbb{R}^2\) for some \(\alpha\in [0,2\pi)\) and \(\varphi :\partial\mathcal{Q} \to \mathbb{R}^2\) a continuous, finitely piecewise linear injective map. We construct a finitely piecewise affine homeomorphism \(v:\mathcal{Q}\to\mathbb{R}^2\) coinciding with \(\varphi\) on \(\partial\mathcal{Q}\) such that the following property holds: \(|\langle Dv,e_{\alpha}\rangle |(\mathcal{Q})\) (resp., \(\langle Dv, e_{\alpha}^{\bot}\rangle |(\mathcal{Q}))\) is as close as we want to \(\inf |\langle Du, e_{\alpha}\rangle |(\mathcal{Q})\) (resp., \(\inf |\langle Du, e_{\alpha}^{\bot}\rangle |(\mathcal{Q}))\) where the infimum is meant over the class of all BV homeomorphisms \(u\) extending \(\varphi\) inside \(\mathcal{Q}\). This result extends that already proven by Pratelli and the third author in [Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl. 29 (2018), no. 3, 511-555] in the shape of the domain.