Nearly convex functions, perturbations of norms and $K$-spaces (Q4523199)

The paper deals with the Hyers-Ulam stability of convexity. Let \(X\) be a Banach space and \(S \subset X\) a convex set, a function \(f:S \to \mathbb R\) is called \(\varepsilon\)-convex on \(S\) if \[ f(hx+(1-h)y)\leq hf(x)+(1-h)f(y)+\varepsilon \] for \(x,y \in S\), \(0\leq h\leq 1\) and for some \(\varepsilon\geq 0\). The main result of the paper is the following Theorem: A Banach space \(X\) is a \(K\)-space if and only if every \(\varepsilon\)-convex homogeneous map on the unit ball \(B(X)\) can be uniformly approximated by a convex one. Moreover, the following result on the stability of the triangle inequality is proved. Theorem: A Banach space \(X\) is a \(K\)-space if and only if for every absolutely homogeneous map \(f:X \to \mathbb R\) satisfying \[ f(x+y)\leq f(x)+f(y)+\varepsilon\{\|x\|+\|y\|\} \] the functional \(X\ni x \mapsto \|x\|+f(x)\) is equivalent to a norm on \(X\).