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Consider the SVD of rectangular matrices as operators

$$ svd : \mathbb C^{n\times m} \to \mathbb U_n \times \mathbb D_{n,m}\times \mathbb U_m $$

where $\mathbb U$ is the space of $n\times n$ unitary matrices and $\mathbb D_{n,m}$ is the space of real nonnegative diagonal rectangular matrices.

We know that this operator is not well defined, since there's more than one SVD for each matrix.

What I want to know is, there exists a specification of $svd$ on $\mathbb C^{n\times m}$ that makes it a Borel-measurable function?

I already know that it can't be continuous, and that if I play enough with the signs of the entries, I guess I can make it not even Lebesgue measurable, but what I need here is for just one specification. If I had to try to do it, I guess I'd try to define it locally and then try to glue together the charts, but I feel like it might badly backfire.

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