We characterize inner product spaces in terms of the relationship between the relative Chebyshev center of a set and the absolute Cheby-shev center of an associated set. A consequence of the characterization is that an existing nite algorithm can be adapted to calculate the center of a nite set relative to a nite dimensional aane space. We also discuss the case where the constraint set is nonli...

In Euclidean spaces, the geometric notions of nearest-points map, farthestpoints map, Chebyshev set, Klee set, and Chebyshev center are well known and well understood. Since early works going back to the 1930s, tremendous theoretical progress has been made, mostly by extending classical results from Euclidean space to Banach space settings. In all these results, the distance between points is i...