Non-Linear Inner Structure of Topological Vector Spaces

Francisco Javier García-Pacheco, Soledad Moreno-Pulido, Enrique Naranjo-Guerra and Alberto Sánchez-Alzola
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Francisco Javier García-Pacheco: Department of Mathematics, College of Engineering, University of Cadiz, 11519 Puerto Real, CA, Spain
Soledad Moreno-Pulido: Department of Mathematics, College of Engineering, University of Cadiz, 11519 Puerto Real, CA, Spain
Enrique Naranjo-Guerra: Department of Mathematics, College of Engineering, University of Cadiz, 11519 Puerto Real, CA, Spain
Alberto Sánchez-Alzola: Department of Statistics and Operation Research, College of Engineering, University of Cadiz, 11519 Puerto Real, CA, Spain

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 5, 1-16

Abstract: Inner structure appeared in the literature of topological vector spaces as a tool to characterize the extremal structure of convex sets. For instance, in recent years, inner structure has been used to provide a solution to The Faceless Problem and to characterize the finest locally convex vector topology on a real vector space. This manuscript goes one step further by settling the bases for studying the inner structure of non-convex sets. In first place, we observe that the well behaviour of the extremal structure of convex sets with respect to the inner structure does not transport to non-convex sets in the following sense: it has been already proved that if a face of a convex set intersects the inner points, then the face is the whole convex set; however, in the non-convex setting, we find an example of a non-convex set with a proper extremal subset that intersects the inner points. On the opposite, we prove that if a extremal subset of a non-necessarily convex set intersects the affine internal points, then the extremal subset coincides with the whole set. On the other hand, it was proved in the inner structure literature that isomorphisms of vector spaces and translations preserve the sets of inner points and outer points. In this manuscript, we show that in general, affine maps and convex maps do not preserve inner points. Finally, by making use of the inner structure, we find a simple proof of the fact that a convex and absorbing set is a neighborhood of 0 in the finest locally convex vector topology. In fact, we show that in a convex set with internal points, the subset of its inner points coincides with the subset of its internal points, which also coincides with its interior with respect to the finest locally convex vector topology.

Keywords: topological vector space; internal point; convex; balanced; absorbing; inner structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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