Metric Spaces with Linear Extensions Preserving Lipschitz Condition

We study a new bi-Lipschitz invariant \lambda(M) of a metric space M; its finiteness means that Lipschitz functions on an arbitrary subset of M can be linearly extended to functions on M whose Lipschitz constants are enlarged by a factor controlled by \lambda(M). We prove that \lambda(M) is finite for several important classes of metric spaces. These include metric trees of arbitrary cardinality, groups of polynomial growth, Gromov-hyperbolic groups, certain classes of Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry and finite direct sums of arbitrary combinations of these objects. On the other hand we construct an example of a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold M of bounded geometry for which \lambda(M)=\infty.Comment: Several new results are added, some important estimates are improve

Extension of Lipschitz Functions Defined on Metric Subspaces of Homogeneous Type

If a metric subspace $M^{o}$ of an arbitrary metric space $M$ carries a doubling measure $\mu$, then there is a simultaneous linear extension of all Lipschitz functions on $M^{o}$ ranged in a Banach space to those on $M$. Moreover, the norm of this linear operator is controlled by logarithm of the doubling constant of $\mu$.Comment: 12 page