Uniformly continuous selections and \(l_ 1\)-property (Q921652)

Recall that to every uniform cover one can subordinate an \(C_ p\)- uniformly continuous partition of unity for \(1<p\leq \infty\). This paper is a careful, perhaps definitive study of the spaces where the same holds for \(p=1\) (known to contain the metric-fine spaces, but no infinite- dimensional normed space). Six characterizations are given, all in terms of single-valued selections or approximations for suitable convex-set- valued maps to Banach spaces. Three types of ``continuity'' for multiple- valued functions F are used: two rather natural ones (in metric language, for \(\epsilon >0\) there is \(\delta >0\) such that (i) for any two points x,y within \(\delta\) of each other, all of F(y) is within \(\epsilon\) of F(x); or (ii) \(F^{-1}\) of a set of diameter \(<\epsilon\) has diameter \(<\delta)\), and one so contrived as to get a classical Michael selection theorem as by-product. Very informative commentary.