Smoothness of certain metric projections on Hilbert space
Smoothness of certain metric projections on Hilbert space
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DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-1973-0326252-2
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发表时间:
1973-10
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1.3
通讯作者:
R. Holmes
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作者:
R. Holmes
A study is made of differential properties of the distance function and the metric projection defined by a closed convex subset of Hubert space. The former mapping is also considered within the context of more general Banach spaces. Introduction. This paper contains a contribution to the study of best approximation out of a closed convex set K belonging to a Hubert space X. As any such set is a Chebyshev set, there is defined on X a map P„: X —» K which assigns to each element of X its best approximation (nearest point) in K. The map PK is generally called the metric projection of X on K. P„ is well known to be a nonexpansive map on X. In the present work we shall be concerned with differential properties of PK, under appropriate smoothness assumptions about the boundary of K. By considering such a simple set as a line segment, it is clear that PK may fail to possess a two-sided directional derivative at certain points in X. More surprisingly, J. Kruskal [5] recently constructed a convex subset of R3 whose associated metric projection failed to have a one-sided directional derivative at some points of R . On the other hand, due to the aforementioned Lipschitz continuity of P„, the classical theorem of Rademacher and Stepanoff [3, p. 216] guarantees that PK is almost everywhere (Frechet) differentiable when X is finite dimensional. (This observation, incidentally, yields an affirmative answer to the question of Kruskal at the bottom of p. 697 of [5]-) However, when X is infinite dimensional, there is no guarantee that Lipschitzian maps are differentiable (cf. [8, pp. 91-92]). The main result to be presented below is (roughly) that if for some x e X the boundary of K is of class Cp + 1 near P^U), then P„ is of class Cp on a neighborhood of the ray normal to K at PKix) (hence in particular on a neighborhood of x). The proof ultimately reduces to an application of the implicit function theorem. We further obtain various properties of the differential DPAx), and in parReceived by the editors March 1, 1972 and, in revised form, October 30, 1972. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 41A65; Secondary 46B99, 46C10.