Local versus global Lipschitz geometry

Abstract

In this article, we prove that for a definable set in an o-minimal structure with connected link (at 0 or infinity), the inner distance of the link is equivalent to the inner distance of the set restricted to the link. With this result, we obtain several consequences. We present also several relations between the local and the global Lipschitz geometry of singularities. For instance, we prove that two sets in Euclidean spaces, not necessarily definable in an o-minimal structure, are outer lipeomorphic if and only if their stereographic modifications are outer lipeomorphic if and only if their inversions are outer lipeomorphic.