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Autores principales: Borrelli, Vincent, Follet, Jean-Baptiste, Thibert, Boris
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Publicado: 2026
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author Borrelli, Vincent
Follet, Jean-Baptiste
Thibert, Boris
author_facet Borrelli, Vincent
Follet, Jean-Baptiste
Thibert, Boris
contents It is well-known since the seminal work of Herbert Federer [Trans. of the AMS, 1959] that submanifolds of class $C^{1,1}$ have positive reach. In this paper, we extend this property to less regular submanifolds by using the notion of $μ$-reach that was introduced in the 2000's. We first show that every compact $C^1$ submanifold of the Euclidean space $\E^n$ has positive $μ$-reach for all $μ<1$. We then show that intermediate regularities $C^{1,α}$ induce more quantitative results on the norm $\|\nabla \d_M\|$ of the generalized gradient of the distance function~$\d_M$ to the submanifold. More precisely, if $M\subset \E^n$ is a submanifold of class $C^{1,α}$, with $α<1$, then there exists a constant $C>0$ such that $$\forall p\in\E^n\setminus M,\quad 1 - \| \nabla \d_M(p) \|^2 \leq C ~ \d_M(p)^{\frac{2 α}{1- α}}.$$ We finally show that the exponent $2α/(1-α)$ in this estimate is sharp.
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spellingShingle Submanifolds of class $C^{1,α}$ and sets with positive $μ$-reach
Borrelli, Vincent
Follet, Jean-Baptiste
Thibert, Boris
Differential Geometry
Metric Geometry
It is well-known since the seminal work of Herbert Federer [Trans. of the AMS, 1959] that submanifolds of class $C^{1,1}$ have positive reach. In this paper, we extend this property to less regular submanifolds by using the notion of $μ$-reach that was introduced in the 2000's. We first show that every compact $C^1$ submanifold of the Euclidean space $\E^n$ has positive $μ$-reach for all $μ<1$. We then show that intermediate regularities $C^{1,α}$ induce more quantitative results on the norm $\|\nabla \d_M\|$ of the generalized gradient of the distance function~$\d_M$ to the submanifold. More precisely, if $M\subset \E^n$ is a submanifold of class $C^{1,α}$, with $α<1$, then there exists a constant $C>0$ such that $$\forall p\in\E^n\setminus M,\quad 1 - \| \nabla \d_M(p) \|^2 \leq C ~ \d_M(p)^{\frac{2 α}{1- α}}.$$ We finally show that the exponent $2α/(1-α)$ in this estimate is sharp.
title Submanifolds of class $C^{1,α}$ and sets with positive $μ$-reach
topic Differential Geometry
Metric Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12999