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Extendability of functions with partially vanishing trace

Let $Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ be open and $D\subseteq \partialΩ$ be a closed part of its boundary. Under very mild assumptions on $Ω$, we construct a bounded Sobolev extension operator for the Sobolev space $\mathrm{W}^{k , p}_D (Ω)$, $1 \leq p < \infty$, which consists of all functions in $\mathrm{W}^{k , p} (Ω)$ that vanish in a suitable sense on $D$. In contrast to earlier work, this construction is global and \emph{not} using a localization argument, which allows to work with a boundary regularity that is sharp at the interface dividing $D$ and $\partial Ω\setminus D$. Moreover, we provide homogeneous and local estimates for the extension operator. Also, we treat the case of Lipschitz function spaces with a vanishing trace condition on $D$.