Saddle point theorems on generalized convex spaces.
We define and investigate a generalization of the notion of convex compacta. Namely, for semiconvex combination in a semiconvex compactum we allow the existence of non-trivial loops connecting a point with itself. It is proved that any semiconvex compactum contains two non-empty convex compacta, the center and the weak center. The center is the largest compactum such that semiconvex combination induces a convex structure on it. The convex structure on the weak center does not necessarily coincide...
A coordinate cone in is an intersection of some coordinate hyperplanes and open coordinate half-spaces. A semi-monotone set is an open bounded subset of , definable in an o-minimal structure over the reals, such that its intersection with any translation of any coordinate cone is connected. This notion can be viewed as a generalization of convexity. Semi-monotone sets have a number of interesting geometric and combinatorial properties. The main result of the paper is that every semi-monotone...
In this paper the main result in [1], concerning -families of sets in general position in , is generalized. Finally we prove the following theorem: If is a family of compact convexly connected sets in general position in , then for each proper subset of the set of hyperplanes separating and is homeomorphic to .
Let and be fixed, , , and let be a simply connected orthogonal polygon in the plane. For lies in a staircase -convex orthogonal polygon in if and only if every two points of see each other via staircase -paths in . This leads to a characterization for those sets expressible as a union of staircase -convex polygons , .
The Hahn–Banach theorem implies that if is a one dimensional subspace of a t.v.s. , and is a circled convex body in , there is a continuous linear projection onto with . We determine the sets which have the property of being invariant under projections onto lines through subject to a weak boundedness type requirement.
The Blaschke–Kakutani result characterizes inner product spaces , among normed spaces of dimension at least 3, by the property that for every 2 dimensional subspace there is a norm 1 linear projection onto . In this paper, we determine which closed neighborhoods of zero in a real locally convex space of dimension at least 3 have the property that for every 2 dimensional subspace there is a continuous linear projection onto with .
We derive the equivalence of different forms of Gaussian type shift inequalities. This completes previous results by Bobkov. Our argument strongly relies on the Gaussian model for which we give a geometric approach in terms of norms of barycentres. Similar inequalities hold in the discrete setting; they improve the known results on the so-called isodiametral problem for the discrete cube. The study of norms of barycentres for subsets of convex bodies completes the exposition.