[Banach] Abstract of a paper by Dusan Repovs and Pavel V. Semenov

This is an announcement for the paper "On continuous choice of retractions onto nonconvex subsets" by Dusan Repovs and Pavel V. Semenov.

Abstract: For a Banach space $B$ and for a class $\A$ of its bounded closed retracts, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, we prove that retractions on elements $A \in \A$ can be chosen to depend continuously on $A$, whenever nonconvexity of each $A \in \A$ is less than $\f{1}{2}$. The key geometric argument is that the set of all uniform retractions onto an $\a-$paraconvex set (in the spirit of E. Michael) is $\frac{\a}{1-\a}-$paraconvex subset in the space of continuous mappings of $B$ into itself. For a Hilbert space $H$ the estimate $\frac{\a}{1-\a}$ can be improved to $\frac{\a (1+\a^{2})}{1-\a^{2}}$ and the constant $\f{1}{2}$ can be reduced to the root of the equation $\a+ \a^{2}+a^{3}=1$.

Archive classification: math.GN math.FA

Mathematics Subject Classification: 54C60; 54C65; 41A65; 54C55; 54C20

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