Approximative compactness of linear combinations of characteristic functions (Q783713)

We recall that in a normed linear space \(X\), \(B \subset X\) is said to be approximatively compact, if every \(x \notin B\), every minimizing sequence in \(B\) to \(d(x,B)\) has a convergent susbequence with limit in \(B\) (such an element in \(B\) is then a best approximation to \(x\)). For \(1 \leq p \leq \infty\) and for a compact set \(G\) of characteristic functions in \(L^p\), the authors show that the set of \(n\)-fold linear combinations from \(G\) is an approximatively compact set in the set of characteristic fumctions in \(L^p\).