Thickened indicators #
This file is about thickened indicators of sets in (pseudo e)metric spaces. For a decreasing sequence of thickening radii tending to 0, the thickened indicators of a closed set form a decreasing pointwise converging approximation of the indicator function of the set, where the members of the approximating sequence are nonnegative bounded continuous functions.
Main definitions #
thickened_indicator_aux δ E: Theδ-thickened indicator of a setEas an unbundledℝ≥0∞-valued function.thickened_indicator δ E: Theδ-thickened indicator of a setEas a bundled bounded continuousℝ≥0-valued function.
Main results #
- For a sequence of thickening radii tending to 0, the
δ-thickened indicators of a setEtend pointwise to the indicator ofclosure E.thickened_indicator_aux_tendsto_indicator_closure: The version is for the unbundledℝ≥0∞-valued functions.thickened_indicator_tendsto_indicator_closure: The version is for the bundledℝ≥0-valued bounded continuous functions.
The δ-thickened indicator of a set E is the function that equals 1 on E
and 0 outside a δ-thickening of E and interpolates (continuously) between
these values using inf_edist _ E.
thickened_indicator_aux is the unbundled ℝ≥0∞-valued function. See thickened_indicator
for the (bundled) bounded continuous function with ℝ≥0-values.
Equations
- thickened_indicator_aux δ E = λ (x : α), 1 - emetric.inf_edist x E / ennreal.of_real δ
As the thickening radius δ tends to 0, the δ-thickened indicator of a set E (in α) tends
pointwise (i.e., w.r.t. the product topology on α → ℝ≥0∞) to the indicator function of the
closure of E.
This statement is for the unbundled ℝ≥0∞-valued functions thickened_indicator_aux δ E, see
thickened_indicator_tendsto_indicator_closure for the version for bundled ℝ≥0-valued
bounded continuous functions.
The δ-thickened indicator of a set E is the function that equals 1 on E
and 0 outside a δ-thickening of E and interpolates (continuously) between
these values using inf_edist _ E.
thickened_indicator is the (bundled) bounded continuous function with ℝ≥0-values.
See thickened_indicator_aux for the unbundled ℝ≥0∞-valued function.
Equations
- thickened_indicator δ_pos E = {to_continuous_map := {to_fun := λ (x : α), (thickened_indicator_aux δ E x).to_nnreal, continuous_to_fun := _}, map_bounded' := _}
As the thickening radius δ tends to 0, the δ-thickened indicator of a set E (in α) tends pointwise to the indicator function of the closure of E.
Note: This version is for the bundled bounded continuous functions, but the topology is not
the topology on α →ᵇ ℝ≥0. Coercions to functions α → ℝ≥0 are done first, so the topology
instance is the product topology (the topology of pointwise convergence).