Volume 5
Summer 2012
Number 1

Cebysev sets in the hyperspace $K^1$

Robert Dawson and Scotty Levy

Abstract: We characterize the Cebysev sets in the hyperspace $K^1$ of closed segments in $\R$ with the Hausdorff metric. These will be seen to include sets with varying dimension. We also show that an arc in $K^1$ is Cebysev if and only if it is monotone, proving the one-dimensional case of a conjecture made in [6].