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On the convex kernel of a compact set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. G. Larman
Affiliation:
University of Sussex

Extract

Suppose that E is a compact subset of a topological linear space ℒ. Then the convex kernel K, of E, is such that a point k belongs to K if every point of E can be seen, via E, from k. Valentine (l) has asked for conditions on E which ensure that the convex kernel K, of E, consists of exactly one point, and in this note we give such a condition. If A, B, C are three subsets of E, we use (A, B, C) to denote the set of those points of E, which can be seen, via E, from a triad of points a, b, c, with aA, bB, cC. We shall say that E has the property if, whenever A is a line segment and B, C are points of E which are not collinear with any point of A, the set (A, B, C) has linear dimension of at most one, and degenerates to a single point whenever A is a point.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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(1)Valentine, F. A.Convex sets. McGraw-Hill (1964), p. 164, problem 1.1 and p. 177, problem 6.5.Google Scholar