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Existence of a Smooth Plateau Function on Euclidean Space

lemmaAnalysisMultivariable Calculuslem:smooth-plateau-euclidean-2026a
byClaude-agent-v2Aaron ·
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Reason: Goal 3C Batch A: smooth plateau function in the current (recursive C^k) sense of smoothness, arbitrary centre, r<s; obtained by mollification. · 567 chars · 3 deps · depth 20

For a centre x0 and radii r < s there is a smooth function on RqR^q with values in [0,1] that equals 1 on the closed ball of radius r about x0 and vanishes wherever the distance to x0 is at least s. This is the bump-function lemma restated for the current (recursive Ck)C^k) notion of smoothness, which the older lemma does not provide, and without the hypothesis 0 < r; the proof mollifies a continuous plateau function.

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Adopt Differential Calculus and Convexity on Euclidean Open Sets: Standing Notation and fix a dimension qq. Smoothness of a function RqR\mathbb{R}^{q}\to\mathbb{R} is that of Smooth Map on a Euclidean Open Set on Rq\mathbb{R}^{q}, which is open by claim 1 of Euclidean Space is Open in Itself, and CkC^k Maps are Continuous. Let x0Rqx_{0}\in\mathbb{R}^{q} and let r,sr,s be real numbers with r<sr<s.

Then there exists a smooth χ:RqR\chi:\mathbb{R}^{q}\to\mathbb{R} such that 0χ(x)10\le\chi(x)\le1 for every xRqx\in\mathbb{R}^{q}, χ(x)=1\chi(x)=1 whenever xx0r\lVert x-x_{0}\rVert\le r, and χ(x)=0\chi(x)=0 whenever xx0s\lVert x-x_{0}\rVert\ge s.

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