The admissibility and the AR-property of some unbounded convex sets in a class of non-locally convex spaces containing \(l_p\) \((0<p<1)\) (Q2510596)

In 1951 J. Dugundji proved that every convex subset of a locally convex linear metric space is an AR (absolute retract for metric spaces). However, to extend this result to the class of non-locally convex linear metric spaces is one of the most resistant open problems in infinite-dimensional Topology. \textit{V. Klee} [Math. Ann. 141, 281--285 (1960; Zbl 0096.07902)] introduced the notion of an admissible convex subset of a linear metric space. Recently it has been proved by \textit{L. H. Tri} and \textit{N. H. Thanh} [Acta Math. Vietnam. 34, No. 3, 389--400 (2009; Zbl 1195.54042)] that every convex AR subset of a linear metric space is admissible. From this the problem arises if every convex subset of a non-locally convex linear metric space is admissible. The present paper provides a partial answer to this problem. Let \(\{p_n\} \subset (0,1)\), \(\inf_n p_n > 0\) be a decreasing sequence and let \(T = \{x = (x_n)\mid \sum_{n=1}^\infty |x_n|^{p_n} < \infty, x_n \in \mathbb{R}, n \in \mathbb N\}\) be the linear space equipped with the metric \(\rho(x,y) =\sum_{n=1}^\infty |x_n-y_n|\). The class \(\Omega\) of such linear metric spaces \((T,\rho)\) contains non-locally convex spaces, e.g. for \(p_n =\frac12+\frac{1}{n+4}\). After proving that two special subspaces \(T_1\) and \(T_2\) are AR in \(T\), the main result of the paper states that the standard infinite-dimensional simplex of \(T\) is admissible.