The directional dimension of subanalytic sets is invariant under bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms

DOI10.5802/AIF.2496MaRDI QIDQ848130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Satoshi Koike, Laurentiu Paunescu

Publication date 22 February 2010

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504005, https://eudml.org/doc/10460

zbMATH Keywords

bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism invariant of a subanalytic set subanalytic set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real-analytic and semi-analytic sets (14P15) Semi-analytic sets, subanalytic sets, and generalizations (32B20)

Abstract: Let A subset R^n be a set-germ at 0 in R^n such that 0 is in the closure of A. Let D(A) denote the set of all directions of A at 0 in R^n. Let A, B subsets R^n be subanalytic set-germs at 0 in R^n such that 0 belongs to their closure. We study the problem of whether the dimension of the common direction set, called their kissing dimension, is preserved by a bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism. We show that in general it is not preserved. We prove that the kissing dimension is preserved if the images of the subanalytic sets under consideration are also subanalytic. In particular, if two subanalytic set-germs are bi-Lipschitz equivalent, then their direction sets must have the same dimension.

Review text

Let \(A\) be a subanalytic set-germ at \(0\in \mathbb{R}^{n}\) such that \(0\in \bar{A}.\) The authors find a new invariant of \(A\) under bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms. Namely, it is the dimension of the direction set \(D(A)\) of \(A \) at \(0\). By definition it is the set of \(r\in S^{n-1}\) for which there exists a sequence of \(x_{i}\in A\setminus \{0\}\) such that \(x_{i}\to 0\) and \(x_i /\|x_i\| \to r\) (it is the intersection of a Whitney tangent cone to \(A\) at \(0\) with the unit sphere).

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