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On regularized distance and related functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

L. E. Fraenkel
L. E. Fraenkel
Affiliation:
Mathematics Division, University of Sussex
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Synopsis

Let F be any closed subset of ℝN. Stein's regularized distance is a smooth (C∞) function, defined on the complement cF, that approximates the distance from F of any point x ∈ cF in the manner shown by the inequalities (*) in the Introduction below. In this paper we use a method different from Stein's to construct a one-parameter family of smooth approximations to any positive Lipschitz continuous function, with the effect that the constants in (*) can be made arbitrarily close to 1. It is shown that partial derivatives of order two or more, while necessarily unbounded, are best possible in order of magnitude.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 83 , Issue 1-2 , 1979 , pp. 115 - 122
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1979

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