Invariant convex sets and functions in Lie algebras

We say that an invariant convex coneW in a Lie algebras is elliptic if its interior consists of elliptic elements of . If such a cone exists, then has a compactly embedded Cartan subalgebra. The first main result, of this paper is a characterization of those Lie algebras, which contain elliptic invariant cones. If is an invariant domain in such a cone, then we characterize the invariant locally convex functions onD by their restrictions to where is a compactly embedded Cartan subalgebra.