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Direct proofs of intrinsic properties of prox-regular sets in Hilbert spaces

  • Matey Konstantinov and Nadia Zlateva ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Abstract

We provide new proofs of two intrinsic properties of prox-regular sets in Hilbert spaces.

MSC 2010: 49J52; 49J53

Award Identifier / Grant number: KP-06-H22/4

Funding statement: M. Konstantinov is supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme Young scientists and postdoctoral students approved by DCM #577/17.08.2018. N. Zlateva is supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under Grant KP-06-H22/4.

Acknowledgements

We appreciate the invaluable help of Prof. Lionel Thibault who shared a part of his unpublished yet work [16] in private communication.

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Received: 2021-12-12
Accepted: 2022-09-03
Published Online: 2022-11-11
Published in Print: 2023-06-01

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