Separation of convex sets via barrier cones (Q778148)

A closed convex subset of a normed linear space is said to have the strong separation property if it can be strongly separated from every other disjoint, closed, and convex set by a closed hyperplane. The paper contains results on the (strong) separation of convex sets. The author develops a new result on the strong separation by imposing an assumption on the barrier cones of the sets. Necessary and/or sufficient conditions for a closed convex subset in a normed space to have the strong separation property are provided. The results are applied to a class of convex optimization problems.