We study two questions posed by Johnson, Lindenstrauss, Preiss, and Schechtman, concerning the structure of level sets of uniform and Lipschitz quotient maps from $R^n\to R$. We show that if $f:R^n\to R$, $n\geq 2$, is a uniform quotient map then for every $t\in R$, $f^{-1}(t)$ has a bounded number of components, each component of $f^{-1}(t)$ separates $R^n$ and the upper bound of the number of components depends only on $n$ and the moduli of co-uniform and uniform continuity of $f$. Next we obtain a characterization of the form of any closed, hereditarily locally connected, locally compact, connected set with no end points and containing no simple closed curve, and we apply it to describe the structure of level sets of co-Lipschitz uniformly continuous mappings $f:R^2\to R$. We prove that all level sets of any co-Lipschitz uniformly continuous map from $R^2$ to $R$ are locally connected, and we show that for every pair of a constant $c>0$ and a function $Ω$ with $\lim_{r\to 0}Ω(r)=0$, there exists a natural number $M=M(c,Ω)$, so that for every co-Lipschitz uniformly continuous map $f:R^2\to R$ with a co-Lipschitz constant $c$ and a modulus of uniform continuity $Ω$, there exists a natural number $n(f)\le M$ and a finite set $T_f\subset R$ with $\card(T_f)\leq n(f)-1$ so that for all $t\in R\setminus T_f$, $f^{-1}(t)$ has exactly $n(f)$ components, $R^2\setminus f^{-1}(t)$ has exactly $n(f)+1$ components and each component of $f^{-1}(t)$ is homeomorphic with the real line and separates the plane into exactly 2 components. The number and form of components of $f^{-1}(s)$ for $s\in T_f$ are also described - they have a finite graph structure. We give an example of a uniform quotient map from $R^2\to R$ which has non-locally connected level sets.
On Weak Compactness and Uniform Regularity in Lipschitz free Spaces
Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València(瓦伦西亚理工大学纯数学与应用数学大学研究所);Univ Gustave Eiffel, Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, LAMA UMR8050(巴黎东克雷泰伊大学、古斯塔夫·埃菲尔大学、法国国家科学研究中心LAMA实验室);Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, CNRS, LmB (UMR 6623)(玛丽和路易斯·巴斯德大学、法国国家科学研究中心LmB实验室);University of Tartu, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics(塔尔图大学数学与统计学院);University of Innsbruck, Department of Mathematics(因斯布鲁克大学数学系)