A characterization of convex cones

Invariant metrics and pseudodistances in several complex variables (32F45) Geometric convexity in several complex variables (32F99) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Cellularity in topological manifolds (57N60) Topological manifolds (57N99) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Topological transformation groups (57S99)

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The author considers domains of an affine space in the projective category via the well-known equivariant embedding from \((\mathbb{R}^n,\text{Aff}(n,\mathbb{R}))\) into \((\mathbb{R}{\mathbf P}^n,\text{PGL}(n+1,\mathbb{R}))\). A domain \(\Omega\) of \(\mathbb{R}{\mathbf P}^n\), is called convex if there exists an affine space \(H\subset\mathbb{R}{\mathbf P}\), such that \(\Omega\) is a convex subset of \(H\). In the paper the following theorem is proved. Let \(\Omega\) be a convex domain with a face \(F\) of codimension 1. Then \(\Omega\) is a cone over \(F\) if the automorphism group of \(\Omega\) has an orbit accumulating at a point of \(F\). As a corollary the author proves: Let \(\Omega\) be a convex domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(F\) an \((n-1)\)-dimensional face of \(\Omega\). Suppose that there is a sequence \(\{g_i\}\) of affine transformation which preserve \(\Omega\) and a point \(x\) in the interior of \(\Omega\) such that the sequence \(\{g_i(x)\}\) accumulates at a point of \(F\). Then \(\Omega= \mathbb{R}^+\times F\).

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