Mutually nearest and farthest points of sets and the drop theorem in geodesic spaces
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Mutually nearest and farthest points of sets and the drop theorem in geodesic spaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 1238.41017
author: Adriana Nicolae
author: Rafa Espínola
published in: Monatshefte für Mathematik
publication date: 2012-02-22T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://idus.us.es/xmlui/handle/11441/43923
review text: Let \((E,d)\) be a geodesic metric space [\textit{D. Burago, Yu. Burago} and \textit{S. Ivanov}, A course in metric geometry. Graduate Studies in Mathematics. 33. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2001; Zbl 0981.51016)] and \(A,\) \(X\in\mathcal{P}(E)\) two nonvoid subset of \(E.\) The authors study the problem \(\min(A,X)\) (respectively \(\max(A,X)\)) of finding \((a_{0} ,x_{0})\in A\times X\) such that \(d(a_{0},x_{0})=\inf\{d(a,x):\;a\in A,\) \(x\in X\}\) (respectively \(D(a_{0},x_{0})=\sup\{d(a,x):\;a\in A,\) \(x\in X\}.\) One obtains some generic results (with respect to the Hausdorff-Pompeiu metric) on the well-posedness of these problems in different geodesic metric spaces and under different conditions on the sets \(A\) (fixed) and \(X.\) For example: If \((E,d)\) is a complete Busemann convex geodesic metric space with curvature bounded below by \(k<0\) and with the geodesic extension property, then for \(A\in\mathcal{P}_{b,cl}(E),\) the set \(W_{\max}=\{X\in\mathcal{P} _{b,cl,cv}(E):\;\max A,X)\) is well posed\(\}\) is a dense \(G_{\delta}\)-set in \(\mathcal{P}_{b,cl,cv}(E)\) (Theorem 3.2.). Also, if \((E,d)\) is a complete geodesic metric space with no bifurcation geodesics and the geodesic extension property, the set \(W_{\max}=\{X\in\mathcal{P}_{cp}(E):\max(A,X)\) is well-posed is a dense \(G_{\delta}\)-set in \(\mathcal{P}_{cp}(E),\) for every \(A\) in \(\mathcal{P}_{cp}(E)\) (Theorem 4.2). Similar results are established for \(\min(A,X).\) Finally, a Drop Theorem in Busemann convex geodesic spaces is obtained (Th.5.3) and applied to an optimization result for convex functions.
reviewed by: Costică Mustăţa
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 41A50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 41A65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46N10
zbMATH DE Number: 6008825
zbMATH Keywords: best approximation
zbMATH Keywords: minimization problem
zbMATH Keywords: maximization problem
zbMATH Keywords: well-posedness
zbMATH Keywords: geodesic space
zbMATH Keywords: drop theorem
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DOI: 10.1007/S00605-010-0266-0
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6008825