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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 1 5 a Solution by
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Assume the invariant set is nonempty, as required for any fixed-point assertion. For , put and . Boundedness makes these finite. The parallelogram identity gives, for ,The midpoint lies in , so a minimizing sequence satisfiesSince is closed in a Hilbert space, the sequence converges to . The function is 1-Lipschitz, hence . The same midpoint inequality proves uniqueness of this minimizing center.
An affine isometry from the group maps onto itself, since its inverse also preserves . Therefore it preserves and sends its unique minimizer to another minimizer. Uniqueness givesThis proof applies to a closed bounded convex subset, the substantive meaning of the printed “convex subspace”; if it is literally a bounded vector subspace, it is just the zero subspace.
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