On the singular support of distributions and Fourier transforms on symmetric spaces
Let X be a normed space. A set A ⊆ X is approximately convexif d(ta+(1-t)b,A)≤1 for all a,b ∈ A and t ∈ [0,1]. We prove that every n-dimensional normed space contains approximately convex sets A with and , where ℋ denotes the Hausdorff distance. These estimates are reasonably sharp. For every D>0, we construct worst possible approximately convex sets in C[0,1] such that ℋ(A,Co(A))=(A)=D. Several results pertaining to the Hyers-Ulam stability theorem are also proved.
We study the size of the sets of gradients of bump functions on the Hilbert space , and the related question as to how small the set of tangent hyperplanes to a smooth bounded starlike body in can be. We find that those sets can be quite small. On the one hand, the usual norm of the Hilbert space can be uniformly approximated by smooth Lipschitz functions so that the cones generated by the ranges of its derivatives have empty interior. This implies that there are smooth Lipschitz bumps...
We give a criterion of smoothness of Orlicz sequence spaces with Orlicz norm.