The Core of a 2-Dimensional Set-Valued Mapping. Existence Criteria and Efficient Algorithms for Lipschitz Selections of Low Dimensional Set-Valued Mappings

Abstract: Let ${\mathfrak M}=({\mathcal M},\rho)$ be a metric space and let $X$ be a Banach space. Let $F$ be a set-valued mapping from ${\mathcal M}$ into the family ${\mathcal K}_m(X)$ of all compact convex subsets of $X$ of dimension at most $m$. The main result in our recent joint paper with Charles Fefferman (which is referred to as a "Finiteness Principle for Lipschitz selections") provides efficient conditions for the existence of a Lipschitz selection of $F$, i.e., a Lipschitz mapping $f:{\mathcal M}\to X$ such that $f(x)\in F(x)$ for every $x\in{\mathcal M}$. We give new alternative proofs of this result in two special cases. When $m=2$ we prove it for $X={\bf R}^{2}$, and when $m=1$ we prove it for all choices of $X$. Both of these proofs make use of a simple reiteration formula for the "core" of a set-valued mapping $F$, i.e., for a mapping $G:{\mathcal M}\to{\mathcal K}_m(X)$ which is Lipschitz with respect to the Hausdorff distance, and such that $G(x)\subset F(x)$ for all $x\in{\mathcal M}$. We also present several constructive criteria for the existence of Lipschitz selections of set-valued mappings from ${\mathcal M}$ into the family of all closed half-planes in ${\bf R}^{2}$.