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In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the algebraic interior or radial kernel of a subset of a vector space is a refinement of the concept of the interior.
Definition
Assume that is a subset of a vector space
The algebraic interior (or radial kernel) of with respect to is the set of all points at which is a radial set.
A point is called an internal point of [1][2] and is said to be radial at if for every there exists a real number such that for every
This last condition can also be written as where the set
is the line segment (or closed interval) starting at and ending at
this line segment is a subset of which is the ray emanating from in the direction of (that is, parallel to/a translation of ).
Thus geometrically, an interior point of a subset is a point with the property that in every possible direction (vector) contains some (non-degenerate) line segment starting at and heading in that direction (i.e. a subset of the ray ).
The algebraic interior of (with respect to ) is the set of all such points. That is to say, it is the subset of points contained in a given set with respect to which it is radial points of the set.[3]
If is a linear subspace of and then this definition can be generalized to the algebraic interior of with respect to is:[4]
where always holds and if then where is the affine hull of (which is equal to ).
Algebraic closure
A point is said to be linearly accessible from a subset if there exists some such that the line segment is contained in [5]
The algebraic closure of with respect to , denoted by consists of and all points in that are linearly accessible from [5]
Algebraic Interior (Core)
In the special case where the set is called the algebraic interior or core of and it is denoted by or
Formally, if is a vector space then the algebraic interior of is[6]
If is non-empty, then these additional subsets are also useful for the statements of many theorems in convex functional analysis (such as the Ursescu theorem):
If is a Fréchet space, is convex, and is closed in then but in general it is possible to have while is not empty.
If then the set is denoted by and it is called the relative algebraic interior of [7] This name stems from the fact that if and only if and (where if and only if ).
Relative interior
If is a subset of a topological vector space then the relative interior of is the set
That is, it is the topological interior of A in which is the smallest affine linear subspace of containing The following set is also useful:
Quasi relative interior
If is a subset of a topological vector space then the quasi relative interior of is the set
In a Hausdorff finite dimensional topological vector space,
See also
Bounding point – Mathematical concept related to subsets of vector spaces