A quantitative version of Helly's selection principle in Banach spaces and its applications (Q2192872)

Helly's selection principle states that every sequence of real valued functions, defined on a compact interval, of uniformly bounded variation, has a pointwise converging subsequence. In other words, a set of real and uniformly bounded variation functions defined on a compact interval is sequentially compact in the pointwise topology. The main result of this paper is a quantitative version of this principle. The proofs use the so-called degree of nondensifiability, which measures (in a specified sense) the distance of a given convex subset of a Banach space to the class of its Peano continua. As application of the general results, the author analyzes the solvability of certain Volterra integral equations, the integral being considered in the sense of Bochner.