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On a question by Corson about point-finite coverings

Functional Analysis 2014-08-14 v1

Abstract

We answer in the affirmative the following question raised by H. H. Corson in 1961: "Is it possible to cover every Banach space X by bounded convex sets with nonempty interior in such a way that no point of X belongs to infinitely many of them?" Actually we show the way to produce in every Banach space X a bounded convex tiling of order 2, i.e. a covering of X by bounded convex closed sets with nonempty interior (tiles) such that the interiors are pairwise disjoint and no point of X belongs to more than two tiles.

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@article{arxiv.1009.4681,
  title  = {On a question by Corson about point-finite coverings},
  author = {Andrea Marchese and Clemente Zanco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4681},
  year   = {2014}
}

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to appear on Israel J. Math