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Aug 30, 2023 at 14:16 comment added Pietro Majer I'd say it's essentially the same.
Aug 29, 2023 at 15:37 comment added shuhalo @PietroMajer: Is there a specific reason to choose the squares of the distance functions rather than the distance functions themselves?
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Jun 16, 2022 at 17:43 comment added Willie Wong Explicit upper bounds certainly would depend on the minutiae of the cover. You can see this in the one dimensional case. Let $K = [0,1]$ and there are no upper bound to the Lipschitz constant of $\psi_U$ over the class of all covers of $K$ by pairs of open intervals.
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Jun 13, 2022 at 22:56 comment added Carlos_Petterson @LSpice Thanks, its all fixed now; sorry about the typos.
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Jun 13, 2022 at 18:28 comment added Carlos_Petterson @FedorPetrov I clarified the notation; I use K-U to denote the complement of $U$ in $K$.
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Jun 13, 2022 at 13:57 comment added Carlos_Petterson @PietroMajer Ah true, but then can we upper-bound the Lipschitz constant in a similar fashion?
Jun 13, 2022 at 13:49 comment added Pietro Majer Well, what I wrote is just this: if, for a given $x\in K$, $U$ is the only open set in $\mathcal U$ such that $x\in U$, then $\psi_V(x)=0$ for all $V\neq U$, so $\psi_U(x)=1$; since $\psi_U(y)=0$ on $\partial U$ we need the Lipschitz constant of $\psi_U$ at least 1/diam(U).
Jun 13, 2022 at 11:30 comment added Carlos_Petterson @PietroMajer This I am having a lot of trouble seeing; I was also suspecting that $L=1/r$ where $r>0$ is the Lebesgue number of $\mathscr{U}$. (Ideally, do you have a reference to this or your claim?)
Jun 13, 2022 at 11:21 comment added Pietro Majer Note that if an open set $U$ can't be removed from the covering $\mathcal U$, i.e. $K\cap U\setminus \bigcup_{U\neq V\in\mathcal U}V\neq\emptyset$, then the $\psi_U$ supported in $U$ in any partition of unity subordinated to $\mathcal U$ must have Lipschitz constant at least 1/diam(U).
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