A nonnegative linear combination of ray elements comes from a nonnegative combination in T.
Pad a nonnegative linear combination to a fixed length using zero coefficients.
Proposition 17.0.11 (Cone as a mixed convex hull), LaTeX label prop:cone-as-mixed.
Let T ⊆ ℝⁿ. The convex cone generated by T can be viewed as the mixed convex hull with
point-set {0} and direction-set T.
Moreover, a mixed convex combination of m elements of this mixed set is necessarily a
combination of 0 and m-1 directions; hence it can be written as a nonnegative linear
combination of m-1 vectors in T.
Proposition 17.0.11 (Cone as a mixed convex hull), LaTeX label prop:cone-as-mixed, part 2:
when the point-set is {0}, a mixed convex combination reduces to a nonnegative linear
combination of vectors from T.
Definition 17.0.12 (Affine hull of a mixed set), LaTeX label def:affine-hull. Let
S = S₀ ∪ S₁ be a mixed set consisting of points S₀ ⊆ ℝⁿ and directions S₁ ⊆ ℝⁿ. Define
aff S := aff (conv S); in other words, the affine hull of a mixed set is the affine hull of
its (mixed) convex hull, i.e. the smallest affine set containing all points of S and
receding in all directions of S.
If S contains directions only (i.e. S₀ = ∅), then conv S = aff S = ∅.
Equations
- mixedAffineHull S₀ S₁ = ↑(affineSpan ℝ (mixedConvexHull S₀ S₁))
Instances For
Definition 17.0.12 (Affine hull of a mixed set), direction-only case: if there are no points, then the mixed convex hull is empty.
The affine span of the empty set is empty.
Definition 17.0.12 (Affine hull of a mixed set), direction-only case: if there are no points, then the mixed affine hull is empty.
Definition 17.0.13 (Affine independence for mixed sets), LaTeX label def:aff-indep.
Let S contain m total elements (points and directions). We say that S is affinely
independent if dim(aff S) = m - 1, where aff S is the affine hull of the mixed set
(Definition 17.0.12).
For nonempty S, this means S contains at least one point and the lifted vectors
(1, x₁), …, (1, xₖ), (0, xₖ₊₁), …, (0, xₘ) are linearly independent in ℝ^{n+1}, where
x₁, …, xₖ are the points in S and xₖ₊₁, …, xₘ represent the distinct directions in S.
Equations
- IsMixedAffinelyIndependent S₀ S₁ = (Module.finrank ℝ ↥(affineSpan ℝ (mixedConvexHull ↑S₀ ↑S₁)).direction = S₀.card + S₁.card - 1)