Affine group acting on hyperspaces of compact convex subsets of R^n
Normed linear spaces and Banach spaces; Banach lattices (46B99) Hyperspaces in general topology (54B20) Absolute neighborhood extensor, absolute extensor, absolute neighborhood retract (ANR), absolute retract spaces (general properties) (54C55) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) Topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds (57N20) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10)
The paper under review gives topological models for certain classical subspaces of the hyperspace \(cc(\mathbb{R}^n)\) of all compact convex nonempty subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) equipped with the Hausdorff metric. The proofs are based on classical results of infinite-dimensional topology and on proper group actions and slices. In particular, the authors show that the group of affine isomorphisms of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) acts properly on the hyperspace \(cb(\mathbb{R}^n)\) of all compact convex bodies in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (Theorem 3.3) and that its orbit space is homeomorphic to the Banach-Mazur compactum \(BM(n)\) of (all) real \(n\)-dimensional normed vector spaces (Corollary 3.8). Among many other results the following are worth mentioning: the hyperspace \(E(n)\) of all ellipsoids (in \(\mathbb{R}^n\)) is homeomorhic to \(\mathbb{R}^{n(n+3)/2}\) (Corollary 3.10) and \(cb(\mathbb{R}^n)\) is homeomorphic to \(Q \times \mathbb{R}^{n(n+3)/2}\) where \(Q\) is the Hilbert cube (Corollary 3.11); the hyperspace \(M(n)\) of all nonempty compact convex subsets of the unit ball that meet its boundary is homeomorphic to \(Q\) (Corollary 4.13); if \(K\) is a closed subgroup of the orthogonal group \(O(n)\) that acts nontransitively on the sphere around the origin, then the orbit spaces \(cb(\mathbb{R}^n) / K\) and \(cc(\mathbb{R}^n) / K\) are homeomorphic to, respectively, \((E(n) / K) \times Q\) (Theorem 6.1) and \(Q \setminus \{point\}\) (Theorem 7.1); the orbit space \(cc(\mathbb{R}^n) / O(n)\) is homeomorphic to the open cone over \(BM(n)\). The paper is concluded with a few interesting questions.
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