Binary operations in spherical convex geometry

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2016.65.5867MaRDI QIDQ2833070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florian Besau, Franz E. Schuster

Publication date 16 November 2016

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1153, http://www.iumj.indiana.edu/IUMJ/ABS/2016/5867

zbMATH Keywords

binary operationsprojection covariancespherical convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55)

Abstract: Characterizations of binary operations between convex bodies on the Euclidean unit sphere are established. The main result shows that the convex hull is essentially the only non-trivial projection covariant operation between pairs of convex bodies contained in open hemispheres. Moreover, it is proved that any continuous and projection covariant binary operation between all proper spherical convex bodies must be trivial.

Review text

Binary operations between convex bodies on the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean unit sphere are studied, focusing on those operations that are covariant under projections onto great sub-spheres. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a binary operation between proper convex bodies to be projection covariant and continuous with respect to the Hausdorff metric are proved. The operations satisfying these conditions are called trivial in this paper. The main result shows that the convex hull is the only non-trivial projection covariant operation in the above described context. The case of binary operations between convex bodies in a fixed open hemisphere that are projection covariant with respect to the center of the hemisphere is discussed, putting them into a one-to-one correspondence with projection covariant on convex bodies in \(\mathbb{R}^n\).

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