Extending finite-dimensional smooth germs #
A function which is smooth, of finite or infinite order, on a neighbourhood of a point of a finite-dimensional real normed space agrees near that point with a globally smooth function of the same order. A smooth bump function performs the extension while preserving the original function near the base point. Since the bump is compactly supported, so is the representative, and a representative of order at least one is moreover globally Lipschitz.
These general calculus lemmas are used by the parameter-dependent ODE construction for the Lie-group exponential, and by the construction of a local flow out of the global solution of a globally Lipschitz field.
References #
- Lie groups and the Lie algebra correspondence roadmap, Deliverable A, Layer 0, "The exponential map".
A function which is smooth on a neighbourhood of a point of a finite-dimensional real normed space agrees near that point with a compactly supported globally smooth function of the same order.
A finite-order smooth germ on a finite-dimensional real normed space has a compactly supported globally smooth representative of the same order.
A function which is smooth of order at least one on a neighbourhood of a point of a finite-dimensional real normed space agrees near that point with a globally smooth and globally Lipschitz function of the same order: the compactly supported representative above has a bounded derivative.