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Common supports of families of sets

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For a familyA of closed bounded convex subsets of a Banach space, sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a closed hyperplane which supports each member ofA.

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Dawson, R. Common supports of families of sets. Geom Dedicata 51, 1–13 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01264097

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