Convex sets which are intersections of closed balls (Q597142)

The authors consider, in a normed linear space \(X\), the family \({\mathcal M}\) of all intersections of closed balls, as a subset of the metric space \({\mathcal H}\) of all closed, convex and bounded sets endowed with the Hausdorff metric. They are mainly interested in (a) the stability of \({\mathcal M}\) under the closure of the vector sums, (b) the stability under the addition of balls. The authors prove that a normed space is a Mazur space under every equivalent norm if and only if it has dimension \(d\leq 2\). They also prove that \(C(K)\) is a Mazur space when \(K\) is a Stonean Hausdorff compact. Moreover, the stability results (a) and (b) are applied to study porosity questions.