Abstract
A direction
d is called a tangent direction to the unit sphere
S if the conditions
s∈S and
aff(s+d) is a tangent line to the sphere
S at
s imply that
aff(s+d) is a one-sided tangent to the sphere
S, i.e., it is the limit of secant lines at the point
s. A set
M is called convex with respect to a direction
d if
[x,y]⊂M whenever
x,y∈M,
(y−x)∥d. It is shown that in an arbitrary normed space an arbitrary sun (in particular, a boundedly compact Chebyshev set) is convex with respect to any tangent direction of the unit sphere.
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Alexey R. Alimov
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
and: Steklov Math. Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
alexey.alimov-msu@yandex.ru
Evgeny V. Shchepin
Steklov Math. Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
scepin@mi.ras.ruSuggested citation
A. R. Alimov, E. V. Shchepin. “Convexity of Suns in Tangent Directions.” Journal of Convex Analysis 26 (2019), No. 4, 1071–1076. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca26058
Published by Heldermann Verlag, 2019. Rights now held by Banach Press.