Convex hull deviation and contractibility (Q1705670)

Let \((X, \rho)\) be a normed space and \(B\) its closed unit ball. For \(D \subseteq X\), we denote by \(h^+(D)\) the convex hull deviation of \(D\), defined as follows: \(h^+(D) = \sup_{x\in \text{co }D} \rho (x, D)\). The \(CHD\)-constant \(\zeta_X\) of \(X\) is defined by \(\zeta_X = \sup_{D \subset B} h^+D\). The paper presents estimates for the \(CHD\)-constant for different spaces. In particular, the following two theorems are established: Theorem 1. If \((X, \rho)\) is an \(n\)-dimensioal normed linear space (\(n \geq 2\)), then \(\zeta_X \leq \frac{2(n - 1)}{n}\). Moreover, 1f \(\rho\) is either the taxicab norm or the maximum norm, this bound is tight. Theorem 2. For any \(p \in [1, \infty]\), \(\zeta_{L_p} \geq 2^{|1/p - 1/p^\prime|}\), where \(\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{p^\prime} = 1\).