Convex polarities over ordered fields |
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Authors: | Gilbert Stengle James McEnerney Robert Robson |
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Institution: | a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA 94550, USA b Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA c Lehigh University, 42 Markham Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA d Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | We use tools and methods from real algebraic geometry (spaces of ultrafilters, elimination of quantifiers) to formulate a theory of convexity in KN over an arbitrary ordered field. By defining certain ideal points (which can be viewed as generalizations of recession cones) we obtain a generalized notion of polar set. These satisfy a form of polar duality that applies to general convex sets and does not reduce to classical duality if K is the field of real numbers. As an application we give a partial classification of total orderings of Artinian local rings and two applications to ordinary convex geometry over the real numbers. |
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Keywords: | 52A20 13E10 12D15 |
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