Norm Minimisation Problems Involving Distances to Convex Sets

The paper studies product-space norm minimisation problems involving distances to convex sets.

Using standard tools from convex and functional analysis, we establish complete dual necessary and sufficient optimality conditions and show that the entire solution set can be constructed from the dual vectors arising from the optimality conditions at a given solution.

As a consequence, we study optimality conditions and solution set descriptions for generalised versions of the Fermat-Torricelli problem, the Chebyshev centre problem, and the p-Fermat-Torricelli problem.

Comparisons with existing results are provided whenever applicable.

Examples in finite and infinite dimensional spaces equipped with different norms are presented to illustrate the results.