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HAMILTON–JACOBI EQUATIONS AND DISTANCE FUNCTIONS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS 2 CARLO MANTEGAZZA AND ANDREA CARLO MENNUCCI 0 0 2 ABSTRACT. The paper is concerned with the properties of the distance function from a closed subset of a Riemannian manifold, with particular attention to the set of singularities. n a J 0 3 CONTENTS ] 1. Introduction 1 P 2. Stationary Hamilton–Jacobi Equations on Manifolds 2 A 3. The Distance Function from a Subset of a Manifold 4 h. 4. Rectifiability of the Closure of the Singular Set 8 t 5. A Special Case 14 a 6. Singularities of Solutions of Hamilton–Jacobi Equations 17 m References 18 [ 1 v 6 1. INTRODUCTION 9 2 We are concerned with the properties of the singular set of the distance function from a closed 1 subset of a n–dimensional, smooth and connected Riemannian manifold (M, g), with particular 0 attention to its rectifiability. 2 r 0 Definition 1.1. We say that a subset S of (M, g) is C –rectifiable, with r ≥ 1, if it can be covered / by a countable family of embedded Cr submanifolds of dimension (n − 1), w