A closed half-affine set of affine direction finrank 1 is a ray.
In the closed-half-affine finrank-one case, every point lies in the mixed convex hull.
Base case: one-dimensional closed convex sets without lines are generated by extreme points and directions.
In dimension > 1, a closed convex set with no lines is neither affine nor a closed half of an affine set.
Strong induction on finrank of the affine span direction to show C ⊆ mixedConvexHull.
Theorem 18.5. Let C be a closed convex set containing no lines, and let S be the set of all
extreme points and extreme directions of C. Then C = conv S.
Here we formalize conv S as the mixed convex hull mixedConvexHull S₀ S₁ (Definition 17.0.4),
with S₀ = C.extremePoints ℝ and S₁ = {d | IsExtremeDirection (𝕜 := ℝ) C d}.
Extreme points of a mixed convex hull lie in the point-generators.
Text 18.5.1 (Minimality of Extreme Elements). Let C be a closed convex set containing no
lines. Let S be the set of all extreme points and extreme directions of C.
Suppose S' is another set of point-elements and direction-elements such that:
(1) C is fully generated by S', i.e. C = conv(S') (here formalized as a mixed convex hull
mixedConvexHull S₀ S₁).
(2) (Regularity condition) No half-line in ℝⁿ contains an unbounded subset of the point-elements
of S' (here: the intersection of S₀ with any ray is bounded).
Then S ⊆ S' (here: every extreme point belongs to S₀, and every extreme direction belongs to
S₁).
If the recession cone is {0}, then C contains no lines.
Mixed convex hull with empty directions reduces to the usual convex hull.