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Central points and measures and dense subsets of compact metric spaces

Functional Analysis 2012-10-17 v1

Abstract

For every nonempty compact convex subset KK of a normed linear space a (unique) point cKKc_K \in K, called the generalized Chebyshev center, is distinguished. It is shown that cKc_K is a common fixed point for the isometry group of the metric space KK. With use of the generalized Chebyshev centers, the central measure μX\mu_X of an arbitrary compact metric space XX is defined. For a large class of compact metric spaces, including the interval [0,1][0,1] and all compact metric groups, another `central' measure is distinguished, which turns out to coincide with the Lebesgue measure and the Haar one for the interval and a compact metric group, respectively. An idea of distinguishing infinitely many points forming a dense subset of an arbitrary compact metric space is also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1105.5706,
  title  = {Central points and measures and dense subsets of compact metric spaces},
  author = {Piotr Niemiec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.5706},
  year   = {2012}
}

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13 pages