On real-valued functions of Lipschitz type

The classical McShane–Whitney extension theorem for Lipschitz functions is refined by showing that for a closed subset of the domain, it remains valid for any interval of the real line. This result is also extended to the setting of locally (pointwise) Lipschitz functions. In contrast to Lipschitz and pointwise Lipschitz extensions, the construction of locally Lipschitz extensions is based on Lipschitz partitions of unity of countable open covers of the domain. Such partitions of unity are a special case of a more general result obtained by Zdeněk Frolík. To avoid the use of Stone’s theorem (paracompactness of metrizable spaces), it is given a simple direct proof of this special case of Frolík’s result. As an application, it is shown that the locally Lipschitz functions are precisely the locally finite sums of sequences of Lipschitz functions. Also, it is obtained a natural locally Lipschitz version of one of Michael’s selection theorems.