Whitney’s extension theorem and the finiteness principle for curves in the Heisenberg group
Scott Zimmerman
The Ohio State University at Marion, USA
Abstract
Consider the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group . In this paper, we answer the following question: given a compact set and a continuous map , when is there a horizontal curve such that ? Whitney originally answered this question for real valued mappings, and Fefferman provided a complete answer for real valued functions defined on subsets of . We also prove a finiteness principle for horizontal curves in the Heisenberg group in the sense of Brudnyi and Shvartsman.
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Scott Zimmerman, Whitney’s extension theorem and the finiteness principle for curves in the Heisenberg group. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 39 (2023), no. 2, pp. 539–562
DOI 10.4171/RMI/1339