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NEAREST POINTS AND DELTA CONVEX FUNCTIONS IN BANACH SPACES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2015

JONATHAN M. BORWEIN
Affiliation:
Centre for Computer-assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA), School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia email jonathan.borwein@newcastle.edu.au
OHAD GILADI*
Affiliation:
Centre for Computer-assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA), School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia email ohad.giladi@newcastle.edu.au
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Given a closed set $C$ in a Banach space $(X,\Vert \cdot \Vert )$, a point $x\in X$ is said to have a nearest point in $C$ if there exists $z\in C$ such that $d_{C}(x)=\Vert x-z\Vert$, where $d_{C}$ is the distance of $x$ from $C$. We survey the problem of studying the size of the set of points in $X$ which have nearest points in $C$. We then turn to the topic of delta convex functions and indicate how it is related to finding nearest points.

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