The Typical Irregularity of Virtual Convex Bodies

R. Schneider

Journal of convex analysis, Tome 25 (2018) no. 1, pp. 103-118

Résumé

The semigroup of convex bodies in Rⁿ with Minkowski addition has a canonical embedding into an abelian group; its elements have been called virtual convex bodies. Geometric interpretations of such virtual convex bodies have been particularly fruitful under the restriction to polytopes. For general convex bodies, mainly the planar case has been studied, as a part of the more general investigation of hedgehogs. Here we restrict ourselves to strictly convex bodies in Rⁿ. A particularly natural geometric interpretation of virtual convex bodies can then be seen in the set of differences of boundary points of two convex bodies with the same outer normal vector. We describe how in the typical case (in the sense of Baire category) this leads to a highly singular object.

Détail

Classification : 52A30, 53A07
Mots-clés : Virtual convex body, difference of support functions, Baire category, hedgehog