Turns pointwise equality on a seminorm sphere into a compactly
supported Lipschitz perturbation.
Statement
Fix
,
and let
be a continuous real seminorm on
whose closed unit ball
is compact. Let
be globally Lipschitz and satisfy
whenever
.
For a fixed increasing selection
of output coordinates, put
and
.
Then
Assumptions
There are constants
for which
The other hypotheses are continuity of
,
compactness of
,
and pointwise equality
on
.
No smoothness or strict convexity of that sphere, Sobolev trace
hypothesis, or separate definiteness assumption on
is added.
Conclusion
The integrals of the same signed, increasingly ordered maximal minor
agree on
.
Each integral is finite by the Lipschitz derivative bound on the compact
set.
The sphere has measure zero for a specific reason: it is the frontier
of the open convex seminorm ball, which is a neighborhood of the origin.
Compactness of a general set would not by itself imply that its boundary
has measure zero.
Proof route
Extend the boundary-zero difference by zero, prove its Lipschitz
bound across the sphere, and apply the compact-perturbation identity to
a patched map.
Proof steps
Put
and define
on
,
outside. The map
is
-Lipschitz
and vanishes on
.
If
and
,
continuity of
along the segment from
to
supplies
,
with
,
such that
.
For
take
.
Since
,
the mixed-side estimate is
The same-side cases follow from the bound for
or from both values being zero; reversing
handles the other mixed case. Thus
is globally Lipschitz with this constant. Its topological support
satisfies
,
because
is closed. It is therefore compact.
Let
.
Then
on
and
outside. Apply the Lipschitz compact-perturbation theorem with base
,
perturbation
,
and the fixed
.
The hypotheses just verified give
This difference is integrable: its restriction to the compact support is
a difference of integrable Lipschitz minors, and it vanishes outside
that support.
To compare derivatives, use local equality, rather than merely
equality at one point. On the open set
,
agrees locally with
,
hence
.
On the open complement of
,
agrees locally with
,
hence
.
The excluded set is
.
The seminorm gauge identity identifies it with the frontier of
;
this set is convex and contains a neighborhood of
by continuity and the positive radius. The convex-frontier Haar-measure
theorem therefore gives
.
These are the hypotheses used by the linked private sphere-null
lemma.
The local identities from Step 3 give
and
on
.
The integrable difference from Step 2 can therefore be split as
The last line uses the
integrability of each Lipschitz minor on compact
.
This proves the claimed equality.