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Complete Metric Spaces
Complete Real Inner Product Spaces
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Closest Point Property

Result

Suppose $X$ is a complete inner product space, $A \subset X$ closed and convex, and $x \in X$. There exists a unique $z \in X$ satisfying

\[ d(z, x) = \inf_{y \in A} d(y, x). \]

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