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Docta Complutense
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Azagra Rueda, Daniel
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Ferrera Cuesta, Juan
2023-06-18T06:47:17Z
2023-06-18T06:47:17Z
2015-03-15
0022-247X
10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.10.022
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24179
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022247X14009457
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We show how Lasry-Lions's result on regularization of functions defined on R-n or on Hilbert spaces by sup inf convolutions with squares of distances can be extended to (finite or infinite dimensional) Riemannian manifolds M of bounded sectional curvature. More specifically, among other things we show that if the sectional curvature K of M satisfies -K-0 <= K <= K-0 on M for some K-0 >= 0, and if the injectivity and convexity radii of M are strictly positive, then every bounded, uniformly continuous function f : M -> R can be uniformly approximated by globally C-1,C-1 functions defined by
(f(lambda))(mu) = sup(z is an element of M nu is an element of M)inf {f(y) + 1/2 lambda d(z, y)(2) - 1/2 mu d(x, z)(2)}
as lambda, mu -> 0(+), with 0 < mu < lambda/2. Our definition of (global) C-1,C-1 smoothness is intrinsic and natural, and it reduces to the usual one in flat spaces, but we warn the reader that, in the noncompact case, this definition differs from other notions of (rather local) C-1,C-1 smoothness that have been recently used by other authors (based on charts). The importance of this regularization method lies (rather than on the degree of smoothness obtained) on the fact that the correspondence f bar right arrow (f(lambda))(mu) is explicit and preserves many significant geometrical properties that the given functions f may have, such as invariance by a set of isometries, infima, sets of minimizers, ordering, local or global Lipschitzness, and (only when one additionally assumes that K <= 0) local or global convexity. We also give two examples showing that this result completely fails, even for (nonflat) Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, whenever f or K are not bounded.
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Regularization by sup-inf convolutions on Riemannian manifolds: An extension of Lasry-Lions theorem to manifolds of bounded curvature
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