Computability of a Whitney Extension

Abstract

We prove the computability of a version of Whitney Extension, when the input is suitably represented. More specifically, if $F \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is a closed set represented so that the distance function $x \mapsto d(x,F)$ can be computed, and $(f^{(\bar{k})})_{|\bar{k}| \le m}$ is a Whitney jet of order $m$ on $F$, then we can compute $g \in C^{m}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ such that $g$ and its partial derivatives coincide on $F$ with the corresponding functions of $(f^{(\bar{k})})_{|\bar{k}| \le m}$.