Chebyshev centers in spaces of continuous functions (Q5916449)

Let S be a paracompact completely regular Hausdorff space, E a Banach space and \(C_ b(S,E)\) the space of all continuous bounded functions from S into E under the supremum norm. Let V be a closed non-empty subset of E and let \(a\in E\). Let \(P_ V(a)=\{v\in V:\) \(\| v-a\| =dist(a;V)\}\). Define \[ rad(B;V)=\inf \{\sup \{\| v-a\|:\quad a\in B\}:\quad v\in V\}, \] \[ cent(B;V)=\{v\in V:\quad \sup \{\| v- a\|:\quad a\in B\}=rad\quad (B;V)\}, \] where B is a bounded subset of E. For X a non-empty subset of \(C_ b(S,E)\), let \[ X(S)=\{f(s):\quad f\in X\}\subseteq E \] for any s in S and let \(\overline{X(s)}\) denote the closure of X(s) in E. Let A be a class of bounded non-empty subsets of \(C_ b(S,E)\) such that for each s in S and B in A, cent(B(s); \(\overline{V(s)})\neq \emptyset\). The purpose of this paper is to study the following question. Given that V is convex, under what assumptions is cent(B;V)\(\neq \emptyset\) for any B in A ? In particular, when is \(P_ V(f)\neq \emptyset\) for any f in \(C_ b(S,E) ?\)