Extendability of functions with partially vanishing trace

Let Ω ⊆ R^d be open and D ⊆ ∂Ω be a closed part of its boundary. Under very mild assumptions on Ω, we construct a bounded Sobolev extension operator for the Sobolev space W_D ^k,p(Ω), 1 ⩽ p < ∞, which consists of all functions in W^k,p(Ω) that vanish in a suitable sense on D. In contrast to earlier work, this construction is global and does not use a localization argument, which allows to work with a boundary regularity that is sharp at the interface dividing D and ∂Ω \ 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.