A problem of intersection of balls in normed space
Abstract
This paper investigates the topological properties of intersections of balls in finite-dimensional normed spaces - a problem that naturally arises when constructing covers for estimating the Gromov-Hausdorff distance. We study the topology of a set obtained by removing a large closed ball from a finite intersection of small open balls. It is proved that in an arbitrary normed plane, such a set is always contractible, provided that it is non-empty.
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