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Let $Con{v}_H\left(X\right)$, $Con{v}_{AW}\left(X\right)$ and $Con{v}_W\left(X\right)$ be the spaces of all non-empty closed convex sets in a normed linear space X admitting the Hausdorff metric topology, the Attouch-Wets topology and the Wijsman topology, respectively. We show that every component of $Con{v}_H\left(X\right)$ and the space $Con{v}_{AW}\left(X\right)$ are AR. In case X is separable, $Con{v}_W\left(X\right)$ is locally path-connected.

By Fin(X) (resp. $Fi{n}^k\left(X\right)$), we denote the hyperspace of all non-empty finite subsets of X (resp. consisting of at most k points) with the Vietoris topology. Let ℓ₂(τ) be the Hilbert space with weight τ and $\ell {₂}^f\left(\tau \right)$ the linear span of the canonical orthonormal basis of ℓ₂(τ). It is shown that if $E=\ell {₂}^f\left(\tau \right)$ or E is an absorbing set in ℓ₂(τ) for one of the absolute Borel classes ${}_{\alpha }\left(\tau \right)$ and ${}_{\alpha }\left(\tau \right)$ of weight ≤ τ (α > 0) then Fin(E) and each $Fi{n}^k\left(E\right)$ are homeomorphic to E. More generally, if X is a connected E-manifold then Fin(X) is homeomorphic...