On Mosco convergence of convex sets

We present a natural topology compatible with the Mosco convergence of sequences of closed convex sets in a reflexive space, and characterise the topology in terms of the continuity of the distance between convex sets and fixed weakly compact ones. When the space is separable, the topology is Polish. As an application, we show that in this context, most closed convex sets are almost Chebyshev, a result that fails for the stronger Hausdorff metric topology.

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