posted on 2008-09-01, 00:00authored byEugene Fink, Derick Wood
Restricted-orientation
convexity is the study of geometric objects whose intersection with
lines from some fixed set is empty or connected. We have studied the properties of restricted-orientation
convex sets and demonstrated that this notion is a generalization of standard convexity. We now describe a
restricted-orientation
generalization of halfspaces and explore properties of these generalized halfspaces.
In particular, we establish analogs of the following properties of standard halfspaces:
-The intersection of a halfspace with every line is empty, a ray, or a line
- Every halfspace is convex
- A closed set with nonempty interior and convex boundary is a halfspace
- The closure of the complement of a halfspace is a halfspace