An extension of the Fermat-Torricelli problem (Q613587)

Results are presented for an extension of the weighted Fermat-Torricelli optimization problem which consists in finding the unique point \(x\) that has the smallest sum of weighted distances from a given set of points in the \(n\)-dimensional real space. In particular, the given points in the original problem are replaced by given sets of \(n\) affinely independent points and the distance of \(x\) from a single point in the original problem is replaced by the \(n\)-dimensional volume of the \(n\)-simplex which is formed by \(x\) and the \(n\) points of a single set and hence equals the convex hull of \(x\) and such \(n\) points.