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The distributional gradient of the closest isometry to the differential of a smooth map

The setting-a "linear algebra" fact: Let $A$ be a real $n \times n$ matrix, and suppose that $\det A<0$ and that the singular values of $A$ are distinct. Then, there exist a unique matrix $Q(A) \...