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The natural best approximation in function spaces singles, out of the family of best L1-approximation of an integrable function in a convex set, the element which is the limit as p converges to 1+, of the unique best Lp-approximation of the function. The present paper extends the result to convex sets in spaces of integrable Young measures. Such spaces lack a standard affine structure. In this paper convexity is considered via a limiting procedure. Consequently, the proof of the existence of a natural best approximation does not rely on tools like weak convergence, available in an ordinary function space. Rather, the interplay of compactness and convexity in the relaxed setting plays a major role

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Z. Artstein, C. C. Popa. “Convexity and the Natural Best Approximation in Spaces of Integrable Young Measures.” Journal of Convex Analysis 10 (2003), No. 1, 169–184. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca1008

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