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Curves in hyperspaces obtained by intersection of $r$-neighborhoods with a fixed subset

Metric Geometry 2025-12-09 v1

Abstract

The present paper generalizes the result from one of the papers by Galstyan. Namely, we consider two nonempty subsets AA and BB of a metric space XX, and construct one-parametric family FrF_r of subsets obtained by intersection between BB and closed rr-neighborhood of AA, where rr is bigger than the infimum distance between the sets AA and BB. In the case where BB is compact, we show that this intersection, considered as a mapping, is right semicontinuously on rr in the topology generated by Hausdorff distance. Moreover, if AA and BB are convex subsets of a normed space XX, then we prove that FrF_r depends continuously on rr in such topology if and only if the Hausdorff distance between different sets FrF_r is finite. We also show that for normed spaces XX of dimension 22 or less, the latter condition is automatically fulfilled. For dimension 33 and hence for bigger ones, we construct an example in which the Hausdorff distance between different FrF_r is always infinite.

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@article{arxiv.2512.06327,
  title  = {Curves in hyperspaces obtained by intersection of $r$-neighborhoods with a fixed subset},
  author = {Arsen Galstyan and Alexey Tuzhilin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.06327},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures