Inner products for Convex Bodies

zbMATH Open1482.52002arXiv1811.03686MaRDI QIDQ5026432FDOQ5026432

Petru A. Cioica-Licht, Lisa Orloff Clark, Rachael Young, David Bryant

Publication date: 8 February 2022

Abstract: We define a set inner product to be a function on pairs of convex bodies which is symmetric, Minkowski linear in each dimension, positive definite, and satisfies the natural analogue of the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality (which is not implied by the other conditions). We show that any set inner product can be embedded into an inner product space on the associated support functions, thereby extending fundamental results of Hormander and Radstrom. The set inner product provides a geometry on the space of convex bodies. We explore some of the properties of that geometry, and discuss an application of these ideas to the reconstruction of ancestral ecological niches in evolutionary biology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03686

zbMATH Keywords

inner productconvex bodyecological nicheMinkowski linear functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Approximation by convex sets (52A27) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

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