On continuous choice of retractions onto nonconvex subsets

Abstract: For a Banach space

B

and for a class

A

of its bounded closed retracts, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, we prove that retractions on elements

A i n A

can be chosen to depend continuously on

A

, whenever nonconvexity of each

A i n A

is less than

f 12

. The key geometric argument is that the set of all uniform retractions onto an

a -

paraconvex set (in the spirit of E. Michael) is

f r a c a 1 - a -

paraconvex subset in the space of continuous mappings of

B

into itself. For a Hilbert space

H

the estimate

f r a c a 1 - a

can be improved to

f r a c a (1 + a^{2}) 1 - a^{2}

and the constant

f 12

can be reduced to the root of the equation

a + a^{2} + a^{3} = 1

.

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