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On continuous choice of retractions onto nonconvex subsets

General Topology 2010-04-14 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

For a Banach space BB and for a class \A\A of its bounded closed retracts, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, we prove that retractions on elements A\AA \in \A can be chosen to depend continuously on AA, whenever nonconvexity of each A\AA \in \A is less than \f12\f{1}{2}. The key geometric argument is that the set of all uniform retractions onto an \a\a-paraconvex set (in the spirit of E. Michael) is \a1\a\frac{\a}{1-\a}-paraconvex subset in the space of continuous mappings of BB into itself. For a Hilbert space HH the estimate \a1\a\frac{\a}{1-\a} can be improved to \a(1+\a2)1\a2\frac{\a (1+\a^{2})}{1-\a^{2}} and the constant \f12\f{1}{2} can be reduced to the root of the equation \a+\a2+a3=1\a+ \a^{2}+a^{3}=1.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3895,
  title  = {On continuous choice of retractions onto nonconvex subsets},
  author = {Dušan Repovš and Pavel V. Semenov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3895},
  year   = {2010}
}