Perturbation of sets and centers (Q811894)

For two nonempty bounded subsets \(A,B\) of a normed space \(X\), let \(h(A,B)\) be the Hausdorff distance between \(A,B,\, r_A,r_B\) the Chebyshev radii and \(c_A,c_B\) the Chebyshev centers of the sets \(A,B\). The paper is concerned with various estimates of \(\| c_A-c_B\| \) in terms of the Hausdorff distance \(h(A,B)\) and of the modulus of uniform convexity in Hilbert and in uniformly convex spaces. A typical example in the Hilbert case is the inequality \(\| c_A-c_B\|^2\leq (h(A,B)+r_A+r_B)h(A,B)\) which was proved for compact \(A,B\) by \textit{P. Szeptycki} and \textit{F. S. van Vleck} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 85, 27--31 (1982; Zbl 0511.41029)], by \textit{M. Baronti} and \textit{P. L. Papini} [Lect. Notes Math. 1354, 98--105 (1988; Zbl 0676.41037)], and \textit{Ch. Li} [Chin. Ann. Math., Ser. A 12, Suppl., 124--127 (1991; Zbl 0757.41033)], in general. The authors survey known results giving, in some cases, simpler proofs as well as refinements of these results. For instance, it is shown that for finite sets \(A=\{a_1,\dots ,a_n\}\) and \(B=\{b_1,\dots ,b_n\}\) of a normed space \(X\), with \(r_A\leq r_B\) the validity of the inequality \(\| c_A-c_B\|^2\leq (r_A+h(A,B))^2-r_B^2\) is a characteristic property of an inner product space.