Infinite dimensional convexity.
General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to functional analysis (46-00) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functional analysis (46-02) Convex sets in topological linear spaces; Choquet theory (46A55) Isomorphic theory (including renorming) of Banach spaces (46B03) Isometric theory of Banach spaces (46B04) Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Radon-Nikodým, Kre?n-Milman and related properties (46B22)
The \textit{Handbook of the geometry of Banach spaces} (Volumes 1 and 2) gathers a quite comprehensive survey of the knowledge accumulated on Banach spaces and their applications inside and outside mathematics. This chapter 15, written by three outstanding experts in the field (among them one of the editors of the whole collection), deals with the structure of infinite-dimensional convex sets and, roughly speaking, with what can be obtained about convex sets through topological methods rather than computations or probabilistic techniques. The first section recalls the classical Krein--Milman and Schauder--Tikhonov theorems. Incidentally, this latter result has recently been extended to the non-locally convex case by \textit{R.\ Cauty} [Fundam.\ Math.\ 170, No.~3, 231--246 (2001; Zbl 0983.54045)]. Section 2 displays the classical Choquet representation theory, with its many applications, while section 3 describes simplices and their structure, and in particular the Poulsen simplex and the various places where it appears. For instance, a remarkable connection beween Kazhdan's property (T) and this object is mentioned. Selection theorems and the relations of simplex theory with \(L^1\)-preduals (commonly called Lindenstrauss spaces) are surveyed. Section 4 is devoted to the Radon--Nikodym property from a geometrical point of view, and its complex version called the analytic Radon--Nikodym property. It should be stressed that this complex version is rather an analogue of the real notion than a simple extension, since spaces such as \(L^1\) behave differently. Support points and boundaries are investigated in Chapter 5, where it is recalled that the complex form of the Bishop--Phelps theorem fails; incidentally, the relations between complex uniform convexity and the complex version of the Bishop--Phelps theorem are not yet well understood. A new proof of Rodé's theorem, which immediately implies the separable case of James' theorem, is provided. It remains an intriguing fact that, to this day, the non-separable case of James' theorem is considerably more difficult than the separable case. Thin sets and their applications to results of Banach--Steinhaus type (but much deeper) are also displayed. The well-developed theory of polyhedral spaces is covered in Section 6. This theory is partly isometric, but nice characterizations of spaces which are isomorphic to polyhedral spaces are also provided: for instance, a separable Banach space is polyhedral if and only if it has an equivalent norm which locally depends upon finitely many coordinates. It seems to be an open problem to know whether one can replace ``norm by ``bump function in the above equivalence. Finally, Section 7 gathers miscellaneous topics (stable convex sets, tilings, proximinal and antiproximinal sets) and important open problems. Among them, let us single out these two, which concern the separable Hilbert space \(H\): Let \(C\) be a subset of \(H\) such that every point in \(H\) has a unique nearest point in \(C\). Is \(C\) a convex set? Does there exist a convex tiling of \(H\) which is uniformly bounded from below and above? It should be said in conclusion that this survey is fluently written and carries a lot of information with as few technicalities as possible. Any graduate student in analysis should find it illuminating, and experienced researchers will rely on this authoritative work. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.46001].
- Boundaries of compact convex sets and fragmentability
- A form of infinite-dimensional polytopes
- Some results on infinite-dimensional convexity
- -convex sets and their applications to the proof of certain classical theorems of functional analysis
- Boundaries and generation of convex sets
- On packing and covering polyhedra in infinite dimensions
- On the extension of continuous quasiconvex functions
- A multiset version of James's theorem
- Extreme points in polyhedral Banach spaces
- Generalized numerical index of function algebras
- Metric projections and polyhedral spaces
- Isometries between spaces of homogeneous polynomials
- Centralisers of spaces of symmetric tensor products and applications
- The version for compact operators of Lindenstrauss properties A and B
- The boundary problem for \(L_{1}\)-preduals
- On the Dirichlet problem of extreme points for non-continuous functions
- On the axiomatization of convex subsets of Banach spaces
- A ``hidden characterization of approximatively polyhedral convex sets in Banach spaces
- Continuous framings for Banach spaces
- Boundaries and polyhedral Banach spaces
- The distance \(dist (\mathcal{B},X)\) when \(\mathcal{B}\) is a boundary of \(B(X^{**})\)
- Baire classes of affine vector-valued functions
- Zero-dimensional isomorphic dynamical models
- Weak^ hypertopologies with application to genericity of convex sets
- Baire classes of Banach spaces and strongly affine functions
- On the topology of pointwise convergence on the boundaries of 𝐿₁-preduals
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- Criteria for convexity in Banach spaces
- A Characterization of Dimension
- Polyhedrality in pieces
- A note on point-finite coverings by balls
- Rethinking polyhedrality for Lindenstrauss spaces
- Purely 1-unrectifiable metric spaces and locally flat Lipschitz functions
- A note on extreme points of \(C^{\infty}\)-smooth balls in polyhedral spaces
- On Preserved and Unpreserved Extreme Points
- Renormings of C(K) spaces
- Compactness, Optimality, and Risk
- Ergodic characterizations of reflexivity of Banach spaces
- Spaces of Minimal Usco and Minimal Cusco Maps as Fréchet Topological Vector Spaces
- Boundaries for Banach spaces determine weak compactness
- Bishop's theorem and differentiability of a subspace of \(C_b(K)\)
- Generic Banach spaces and generic simplexes
- On simpliciality of function spaces not containing constants
- On the Kreĭn-Milman property and the Bade property
- The dilation mapping for simplices and L₁-preduals
- The extreme points of the unit ball of the James space J and its dual spaces
- Choquet's theory and the Dirichlet problem.
- \(\aleph\)-injective Banach spaces and \(\aleph\)-projective compacta
- Affine images of compact convex sets and maximal measures
- Weights of boundaries of compact convex sets
- \((I)\)-envelopes of closed convex sets in Banach spaces
- Polyhedral norms on non-separable Banach spaces
- Some geometrical aspects of efficient points in vector optimization
- Complementability of spaces of harmonic functions
- On fine properties of mixtures with respect to concentration of measure and Sobolev type inequalities
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