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Rademacher's Theorem in Rn\mathbb{R}^n

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Reason: First publication: Rademacher's theorem in R^n, proved through the Lebesgue density theorem without any use of integration, including the locally Lipschitz vector-valued case. · 3,005 chars · 8 deps · depth 17

A Lipschitz function on Euclidean space is differentiable outside a Borel null set, with derivative the vector of its partial derivatives and with gradient bounded by the Lipschitz constant; the same holds for locally Lipschitz maps into Rm\mathbb{R}^m on an open set.

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We work in the setting of Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation, whose notation is fixed for every dimension and is used here with natural numbers n,mn,m satisfying 1n1\le n and 1m1\le m: the Euclidean norm \lVert\,\cdot\,\rVert, dot product, distance dEd_{E}, notion of openness and closed balls, the Borel σ\sigma-algebra B(Rn)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}), Lebesgue measure λn\lambda_{n}, the notion of a null subset, and the convention that Lipschitz maps between subsets of Euclidean spaces are understood for the restricted Euclidean distances, are as fixed there.

Let LRL\in\mathbb{R} with 0L0\le L and let f:RnRf:\mathbb{R}^{n}\to\mathbb{R} be Lipschitz with constant LL, that is f(y)f(z)Lyz|f(y)-f(z)|\le L\lVert y-z\rVert for all y,zRny,z\in\mathbb{R}^{n}. Where all nn partial derivatives of ff exist at a point xx, we write Df(x)=(1f(x),,nf(x))RnDf(x)=(\partial_{1}f(x),\dots,\partial_{n}f(x))\in\mathbb{R}^{n} for the gradient of ff at xx. Then the following hold.

1. (Differentiability almost everywhere) There is a set NB(Rn)N\in\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) with λn(N)=0\lambda_{n}(N)=0 such that for every xRnNx\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\setminus N all nn partial derivatives of ff exist at xx and, for every εR\varepsilon\in\mathbb{R} with 0<ε0<\varepsilon, there is δR\delta\in\mathbb{R} with 0<δ0<\delta such that

f(x+h)f(x)Df(x)hεhfor every hRn with h<δ.\bigl|f(x+h)-f(x)-Df(x)\cdot h\bigr|\le\varepsilon\,\lVert h\rVert\qquad\text{for every }h\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\text{ with }\lVert h\rVert<\delta .

2. (Identification of the derivative) At every point xx as in claim 1, the function ff is differentiable with derivative matrix the real matrix AA with one row and nn columns whose entries are A1i=if(x)A_{1i}=\partial_{i}f(x) for 1in1\le i\le n; by claim 2 of A Derivative Matrix is the Jacobian Matrix, and is Unique this matrix is the Jacobian matrix of ff at xx.

3. (Bound on the gradient) At every point xx as in claim 1 one has Df(x)L\lVert Df(x)\rVert\le L.

4. (Locally Lipschitz maps into Rm\mathbb{R}^{m}) Let URnU\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n} be open and let T:URmT:U\to\mathbb{R}^{m} be locally Lipschitz on UU. Then the set of those xUx\in U at which TT is not differentiable is null. At every xUx\in U at which TT is differentiable, the derivative matrix of TT at xx is the real matrix with mm rows and nn columns whose entry in row kk and column ii is the partial derivative iTk(x)\partial_{i}T_{k}(x) of the kkth coordinate function of TT.

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