Extremal Approximately Convex Functions and Estimating the Size of Convex Hulls

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1998-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/math/9807107v1

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Metric Geometry

39 pages. See also http://www.math.sc.edu/~howard/

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A real valued function $f$ defined on a convex $K$ is anemconvex function iff it satisfies $$ f((x+y)/2) \le (f(x)+f(y))/2 + 1. $$ A thorough study of approximately convex functions is made. The principal results are a sharp universal upper bound for lower semi-continuous approximately convex functions that vanish on the vertices of a simplex and an explicit description of the unique largest bounded approximately convex function~$E$ vanishing on the vertices of a simplex. A set $A$ in a normed space is an approximately convex set iff for all $a,b\in A$ the distance of the midpoint $(a+b)/2$ to $A$ is $\le 1$. The bounds on approximately convex functions are used to show that in $\R^n$ with the Euclidean norm, for any approximately convex set $A$, any point $z$ of the convex hull of $A$ is at a distance of at most $[\log_2(n-1)]+1+(n-1)/2^{[\log_2(n-1)]}$ from $A$. Examples are given to show this is the sharp bound. Bounds for general norms on $R^n$ are also given.

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