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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 16:3 (2003), 275-282. c Printed in the USA 2003 by North Atlantic Science Publishing Company A STOCHASTIC VERSION OF FAN’S BEST APPROXIMATION THEOREM ABDUL RAHIM KHAN and A.B. THAHEEM King Fahd University of Petroleum Minerals Department of Mathematical Sciences Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia NAWAB HUSSAIN Bahauddin Zakariya University Centre for Advanced Studies in Pure and Applied Mathematics Multan 60800, Pakistan (Received March, 2003; Revised September, 2003) We establish some deterministic and random approximation results with the help of two continuous maps in the context of a metrizable topological vector space. These results generalize some well known results in approximation theory. Keywords: Best Approximation, Fixed Point, Multivalued Random Operator, Quasi- Convex Function, Metrizable Topological Vector Space, Kirzbraun Property. AMS (MOS) Subject Classifications: 41A65, 46A16, 47H10, 60H25. 1 Introduction A lot of work has been done on the existence of best approximation for continuous and nonexpansive mappings on Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces and locally convex topological vector spaces. These results include both single and multivalued maps. In general, fixed point theorems and the related techniques have been used to prove the results about best approximation. We refer to [4, 6, 7, 13, 14] and references therein. In 1969, Ky Fan [6] proved in Theorem 1, the following best approximation result: Theorem A: Let C be a compact convex set in a locally convex Ha