Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics , University of Jyväskylä , P.O. Box 35 (MaD), FI-40014 Jyväskylä , Finland
Abstract
Abstract
In this note we compare two ways of measuring the n-dimensional “flatness” of a set
S
⊂
ℝ
d
{S\subset\mathbb{R}^{d}}
, where
n
∈
ℕ
{n\in\mathbb{N}}
and
d
>
n
{d>n}
. The first is to consider the classical Reifenberg-flat numbers
α
(
x
,
r
)
{\alpha(x,r)}
(
x
∈
S
{x\in S}
,
r
>
0
{r>0}
), which measure the minimal scaling-invariant Hausdorff distances in
B
r
(
x
)
{B_{r}(x)}
between S and n-dimensional affine subspaces of
ℝ
d
{\mathbb{R}^{d}}
. The second is an “intrinsic” approach in which we view the same set S as a metric space (endowed with the induced Euclidean distance). Then we consider numbers
𝖺
(
x
,
r
)
{{\mathsf{a}}(x,r)}
that are the scaling-invariant Gromov–Hausdorff distances between balls centered at x of radius r in S and the n-dimensional Euclidean ball of the same radius.
As main result of our analysis we make rigorous a phenomenon, first noted by David and Toro, for which the numbers
𝖺
(
x
,
r
)
{{\mathsf{a}}(x,r)}
behaves as the square of the numbers
α
(
x
,
r
)
{\alpha(x,r)}
. Moreover, we show how this result finds application in extending the Cheeger–Colding intrinsic-Reifenberg theorem to the biLipschitz case.
As a by-product of our arguments, we deduce analogous results also for the Jones’ numbers β (i.e. the one-sided version of the numbers α).
Subject
Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics