Journal Home Page Cumulative Index List of all Volumes Complete Contentsof this Volume Previous Article Journal of Convex Analysis 20 (2013), No. 2, 501--529Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2013 On Well Posed Best Approximation Problems for a Nonsymmetric Seminorm Grigorii E. Ivanov Dept. of Higher Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutski str. 9, Dolgoprudny -- Moscow Region, Russia 141700 givanov@mail.mipt.ru [Abstract-pdf] \def\inter{\mathop{\rm int}} Let $M$ be a closed convex (generally unbounded) subset of a Banach space $E$ with $0$ being an interior point of $M$, $A$ be a closed subset of $E$. Let $T_{M}(A)$ be the set of all $x_{0}\in E$ such that the problem $\smash{\min\limits_{a\in A}}\, \mu_{M} (x_{0}-a)$ is well posed, where $\mu_{M}$ is the Minkowski functional of $M$, so $\mu_{M}$ is a nonsymmetric seminorm. We obtain some asymptotic properties (appearance far from the origin) of $M$ which are necessary and/or sufficient for $S_{M}^{\inter}(A)\setminus T_{M}(A)$ to be a meagre or a $\sigma$-porous subset of $$S_{M}^{\inter}(A)=\left\{x_{0}\in E\Big|\ 0<\varrho_{M}(x_{0},A)<\sup\limits_{x\in E}\varrho_{M}(x,A)\right\}\ ,$$ where $\varrho_{M}(x,A)=\inf\limits_{a\in A}\mu_{M}(x-a)$. Keywords: Best approximation, Minkowski functional, residual set, sigma-porous set. MSC: 41A50, 41A65, 52A21 [ Fulltext-pdf  (247  KB)] for subscribers only.