Mathematics Colloquium: Lipschitz and biLipschitz Maps on Carnot Groups

2010-12-09

4:10 p.m. Neill Hall 5W

William Meyerson

Abstract: Suppose A is an open subset of a Carnot group G and H is another Carnot group. We show that a Lipschitz function from A to H whose image has positive Hausdorff measure in the appropriate dimension is biLipschitz on a subset of A of positive Hausdorff measure. We then construct Lipschitz maps from open maps in Carnot groups to Euclidean space that do not decrease dimension. Finally, we discuss two counterexamples to explain why Carnot group structure is necessary for these results.