【2017年整理】Constructive decomposition of functions of two variables using functions of one variable.pdfVIP

CONSTRUCTIVE DECOMPOSITION OF FUNCTIONS OF TWO 7 VARIABLES USING FUNCTIONS OF ONE VARIABLE 0 0 ´ 2 EVA TRENKLEROVA b e Abstract. Given a compact set K in the plane, which contains no triple of F points forming a vertical and a horizontal segment, and a map f ∈ C (K), we 7 give a construction of functions g, h ∈ C (R) such that f (x, y) = g (x) + h(y) for 2 all (x, y) ∈ K . This provides a constructive proof of a part of Sternfeld’s theo- rem on basic embeddings in the plane. In the proof we construct a sequence of ] finite graphs, which provide an arbitrarily good approximation of the set K . N G . h t 1. Introduction a m An embedding (continous one-to-one map with continuous inverse) ϕ : K → Rk [ of a compactum (compact metric space) K into the k-dimensional Euclidean space Rk is called a basic embedding provided that for each continuous real-valued func- 1 v tion f ∈ C (K), there exist continuous real-valued functions of one real variable g , . . . , g ∈ C (R) such that f (x , . . . , x ) = g (x ) + . . . + g (x ), for all points 2 1 k 1 k 1 1 k k