TY - JOUR
T1 - On Lipschitz extension from finite subsets
AU - Naor, Assaf
AU - Rabani, Yuval
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - We prove that for every n ∈ ℕ there exists a metric space (X, dX), an n-point subset S ⊆ X, a Banach space (Z, ‖ · ‖ Z) and a 1-Lipschitz function f: S → Z such that the Lipschitz constant of every function F: X → Z that extends f is at least a constant multiple of logn. This improves a bound of Johnson and Lindenstrauss [JL84]. We also obtain the following quantitative counterpart to a classical extension theorem of Minty [Min70]. For every α ∈ (1/2, 1] and n ∈ ℕ there exists a metric space (X, dX), an n-point subset S ⊆ X and a function f: S → ℓ2 that is α-Hölder with constant 1, yet the α-Hölder constant of any F: X → ℓ2 that extends f satisfies ‖F‖Lip(α)>(logn)2α−14α+(lognloglogn)α2−12. We formulate a conjecture whose positive solution would strengthen Ball’s nonlinear Maurey extension theorem [Bal92], serving as a far-reaching nonlinear version of a theorem of König, Retherford and Tomczak-Jaegermann [KRTJ80]. We explain how this conjecture would imply as special cases answers to longstanding open questions of Johnson and Lindenstrauss [JL84] and Kalton [Kal04].
AB - We prove that for every n ∈ ℕ there exists a metric space (X, dX), an n-point subset S ⊆ X, a Banach space (Z, ‖ · ‖ Z) and a 1-Lipschitz function f: S → Z such that the Lipschitz constant of every function F: X → Z that extends f is at least a constant multiple of logn. This improves a bound of Johnson and Lindenstrauss [JL84]. We also obtain the following quantitative counterpart to a classical extension theorem of Minty [Min70]. For every α ∈ (1/2, 1] and n ∈ ℕ there exists a metric space (X, dX), an n-point subset S ⊆ X and a function f: S → ℓ2 that is α-Hölder with constant 1, yet the α-Hölder constant of any F: X → ℓ2 that extends f satisfies ‖F‖Lip(α)>(logn)2α−14α+(lognloglogn)α2−12. We formulate a conjecture whose positive solution would strengthen Ball’s nonlinear Maurey extension theorem [Bal92], serving as a far-reaching nonlinear version of a theorem of König, Retherford and Tomczak-Jaegermann [KRTJ80]. We explain how this conjecture would imply as special cases answers to longstanding open questions of Johnson and Lindenstrauss [JL84] and Kalton [Kal04].
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U2 - 10.1007/s11856-017-1475-1
DO - 10.1007/s11856-017-1475-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018275418
SN - 0021-2172
VL - 219
SP - 115
EP - 161
JO - Israel Journal of Mathematics
JF - Israel Journal of Mathematics
IS - 1
ER -