The G\"unt\"urk-Thao theorem revisited: polyhedral cones and limiting examples

Abstract

In 2023, G\"unt\"urk and Thao proved that the sequence $(x^{(n)})_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ generated by random (relaxed) projections drawn from a finite collection of innately regular closed subspaces in a real Hilbert space satisfies $\sum_{n\in\mathbb{N}} \|x^{(n)}-x^{(n+1)}\|^\gamma <+\infty$ for all $\gamma>0$. We extend their result to a finite collection of polyhedral cones. Moreover, we construct examples showing the tightness of our extension: indeed, the result fails for a line and a convex set in $\mathbb{R}^2$, and for a plane and a non-polyhedral cone in $\mathbb{R}^3$.