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CHEBYSHEV SUBSETS OF A HILBERT SPACE SPHERE

Part of: Approximations and expansions Normed linear spaces and Banach spaces; Banach lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2019

THEO BENDIT
THEO BENDIT*
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle, Australia email [email protected]
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Abstract

The Chebyshev conjecture posits that Chebyshev subsets of a real Hilbert space $X$ are convex. Works by Asplund, Ficken and Klee have uncovered an equivalent formulation of the Chebyshev conjecture in terms of uniquely remotal subsets of $X$. In this tradition, we develop another equivalent formulation in terms of Chebyshev subsets of the unit sphere of $X\times \mathbb{R}$. We characterise such sets in terms of the image under stereographic projection. Such sets have superior structure to Chebyshev sets and uniquely remotal sets.

Keywords

Chebyshev setsChebyshev conjecturestereographic projectionproximal pointsfurthest points

MSC classification

Primary: 41A65: Abstract approximation theory (approximation in normed linear spaces and other abstract spaces)
Secondary: 41A50: Best approximation, Chebyshev systems 46B20: Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 107 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , pp. 289 - 301
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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