The paper begins with a self-contained and short development of Bárány's theorems of Carathéodory and Helly type in finite-dimensional spaces together with some new variants. In the second half the possible generalizations of these results to arbitrary Banach spaces are investigated. The Carathéodory-Bárány theorem has a counterpart in arbitrary dimensions under suitable uniform compactness or uniform boundedness conditions. The proper generalization of the Helly-Bárány theorem reads as follows: if $C_{n}$, n=1,2,..., are families of closed convex sets in a bounded subset of a separable Banach space X such that there exists a positive $ε_{0}$ with $⋂_{C ∈ C_{n}} (C)_{ε} = ∅$ for $ε < ε_{0}$, then there are $C_{n} ∈ C_{n}$ with $⋂_{n} (C_{n})_{ε} = ∅$ for all $ε < ε_{0}$; here $(C)_{ε}$ denotes the collection of all x with distance at most ε to C.
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A metric space (M,d) is said to have the small ball property (sbp) if for every ε₀ > 0 it is possible to write M as the union of a sequence (B(xₙ,rₙ)) of closed balls such that the rₙ are smaller than ε₀ and lim rₙ = 0. We study permanence properties and examples of sbp. The main results of this paper are the following: 1. Bounded convex closed sets in Banach spaces have sbp only if they are compact. 2. Precisely the finite-dimensional Banach spaces have sbp. (More generally: a complete metric group has sbp iff it is separable and locally compact.) 3. Let B be a boundary in the bidual of an infinite-dimensional Banach space. Then B does not have sbp. In particular the set of extreme points in the unit ball of an infinite-dimensional reflexive Banach space fails to have sbp.
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