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A "hidden" characterization of approximatively polyhedral convex sets in Banach spaces

Functional Analysis 2012-12-19 v1 General Topology

Abstract

For a Banach space XX by ConvH(X)Conv_H(X) we denote the space of non-empty closed convex subsets of XX, endowed with the Hausdorff metric. We prove that for any closed convex set CXC\subset X and its metric component HC={AConvH(X):dH(A,C)<}H_C=\{A\in Conv_H(X):d_H(A,C)<\infty\} in ConvH(X)Conv_H(X), the following conditions are equivalent: (1) CC is approximatively polyhedral, which means that for every ϵ>0\epsilon>0 there is a polyhedral convex subset PXP\subset X on Hausdorff distance dH(P,C)<ϵd_H(P,C)<\epsilon from CC; (2) CC lies on finite Hausdorff distance dH(C,P)d_H(C,P) from some polyhedral convex set PXP\subset X; (3) the metric space (HC,dH)(H_C,d_H) is separable; (4) HCH_C has density dens(HC)<cdens(H_C)<\mathfrak c; (5) HCH_C does not contain a positively hiding convex set PXP\subset X. If the Banach space XX is finite-dimensional, then the conditions (1)--(5) are equivalent to: (6) CC is not positively hiding; (7) CC is not infinitely hiding. A convex subset CXC\subset X is called {\em positively hiding} (resp. {\em infinitely hiding}) if there is an infinite set AXCA\subset X\setminus C such that infaAdist(a,C)>0\inf_{a\in A}dist(a,C)>0 (resp. supaAdist(a,C)=\sup_{a\in A}dist(a,C)=\infty) and for any distinct points a,bAa,b\in A the segment [a,b][a,b] meets the set CC.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6708,
  title  = {A "hidden" characterization of approximatively polyhedral convex sets in Banach spaces},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Ivan Hetman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6708},
  year   = {2012}
}

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