On δ-suns

We prove that an approximatively compact Chebyshev set in an M-space is a ?-sun and a ?-sun in a complete strong M-space (or externally convex M-space) is almost convex.

Approximative compactness and continuity of metric projections

In the paper “Some remarks on approximative compactness”, Rev. Roumaine Math. Pures Appl. 9 (1964), Ivan Singer proved that if K is an approximatively compact Chebyshev set in a metric space, then the metric projection onto K is continuous. The object of this paper is to show that though, in general, the continuity of the metric projection supported by a Chebyshev set does not imply that the set is approximatively compact, it is indeed so in a large class of Banach spaces, including the locally uniformly convex spaces. It is also proved that in such a space X the metric projection onto a Chebyshev set is continuous on a set dense in X.