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87-543: The 40 non-snub triangular faces form 20 coplanar pairs, forming star hexagons that are not quite regular. Unlike most snub polyhedra, it has reflection symmetries. Its convex hull is a nonuniform truncated icosahedron . Let ξ = − 3 2 + 1 2 1 + 4 ϕ ≈ − 0.1332396008261379 {\displaystyle \xi =-{\frac {3}{2}}+{\frac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {1+4\phi }}\approx -0.1332396008261379} be largest (least negative) zero of

174-450: A ( d + 1 ) {\displaystyle (d+1)} -tuple of points is a simplex ; in the plane it is a triangle and in three-dimensional space it is a tetrahedron. Therefore, every convex combination of points of X {\displaystyle X} belongs to a simplex whose vertices belong to X {\displaystyle X} , and the third and fourth definitions are equivalent. In two dimensions,

261-499: A Euclidean space is defined to be convex if it contains the line segments connecting each pair of its points. The convex hull of a given set X {\displaystyle X} may be defined as For bounded sets in the Euclidean plane, not all on one line, the boundary of the convex hull is the simple closed curve with minimum perimeter containing X {\displaystyle X} . One may imagine stretching

348-621: A convex polygon when d = 2 {\displaystyle d=2} , or more generally a convex polytope in R d {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{d}} . Each extreme point of the hull is called a vertex , and (by the Krein–Milman theorem) every convex polytope is the convex hull of its vertices. It is the unique convex polytope whose vertices belong to S {\displaystyle S} and that encloses all of S {\displaystyle S} . For sets of points in general position ,

435-416: A regular tetrahedron . The transformations T i M j {\displaystyle T_{i}M^{j}} ( i = 0 , … , 11 {\displaystyle (i=0,\ldots ,11} , j = 0 , … , 4 ) {\displaystyle j=0,\ldots ,4)} constitute the group of rotational symmetries of a regular icosahedron . Then

522-411: A rubber band so that it surrounds the entire set S {\displaystyle S} and then releasing it, allowing it to contract; when it becomes taut, it encloses the convex hull of S {\displaystyle S} . This formulation does not immediately generalize to higher dimensions: for a finite set of points in three-dimensional space, a neighborhood of a spanning tree of

609-413: A convex combination of pure states in multiple ways. A convex hull in thermodynamics was identified by Josiah Willard Gibbs (1873), although the paper was published before the convex hull was so named. In a set of energies of several stoichiometries of a material, only those measurements on the lower convex hull will be stable. When removing a point from the hull and then calculating its distance to

696-452: A convex hull whose boundary forms a continuously differentiable curve . However, for any angle θ {\displaystyle \theta } in the range π / 2 < θ < π {\displaystyle \pi /2<\theta <\pi } , there will be times during the Brownian motion where the moving particle touches the boundary of

783-526: A different type of convex hull is also used, the convex hull of the weight vectors of solutions. One can maximize any quasiconvex combination of weights by finding and checking each convex hull vertex, often more efficiently than checking all possible solutions. In the Arrow–Debreu model of general economic equilibrium , agents are assumed to have convex budget sets and convex preferences . These assumptions of convexity in economics can be used to prove

870-413: A function f {\displaystyle f} on a real vector space is the function whose epigraph is the lower convex hull of the epigraph of f {\displaystyle f} . It is the unique maximal convex function majorized by f {\displaystyle f} . The definition can be extended to the convex hull of a set of functions (obtained from the convex hull of

957-454: A given permutation is even or odd is to construct the corresponding permutation matrix and compute its determinant. The value of the determinant is the same as the parity of the permutation. Every permutation of odd order must be even. The permutation (1 2)(3 4) in A 4 shows that the converse is not true in general. This section presents proofs that the parity of a permutation σ can be defined in two equivalent ways: Let σ be

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1044-465: A hierarchical description of a given polygon called its convex differences tree . Reflecting a pocket across its convex hull edge expands the given simple polygon into a polygon with the same perimeter and larger area, and the Erdős–Nagy theorem states that this expansion process eventually terminates. The curve generated by Brownian motion in the plane, at any fixed time, has probability 1 of having

1131-463: A list of linear inequalities describing the facets of the hull, an undirected graph of facets and their adjacencies, or the full face lattice of the hull. In two dimensions, it may suffice more simply to list the points that are vertices, in their cyclic order around the hull. For convex hulls in two or three dimensions, the complexity of the corresponding algorithms is usually estimated in terms of n {\displaystyle n} ,

1218-410: A permutation can be explicitly expressed as where N ( σ ) is the number of inversions in  σ . Alternatively, the sign of a permutation  σ can be defined from its decomposition into the product of transpositions as where m is the number of transpositions in the decomposition. Although such a decomposition is not unique, the parity of the number of transpositions in all decompositions

1305-410: A permutation on a ranked domain S . Every permutation can be produced by a sequence of transpositions (2-element exchanges). Let the following be one such decomposition We want to show that the parity of k is equal to the parity of the number of inversions of σ . Every transposition can be written as a product of an odd number of transpositions of adjacent elements, e.g. Generally, we can write

1392-408: A permutation  σ is denoted sgn( σ ) and defined as +1 if σ is even and −1 if σ is odd. The signature defines the alternating character of the symmetric group S n . Another notation for the sign of a permutation is given by the more general Levi-Civita symbol ( ε σ ), which is defined for all maps from X to X , and has value zero for non-bijective maps . The sign of

1479-422: A point ( x , y , z ) {\displaystyle (x,y,z)} to the even permutations of ( ± x , ± y , ± z ) {\displaystyle (\pm x,\pm y,\pm z)} with an even number of minus signs. The transformations T i {\displaystyle T_{i}} constitute the group of rotational symmetries of

1566-451: A set of points in a similar way to the convex hull, as the minimal superset with some property, the intersection of all shapes containing the points from a given family of shapes, or the union of all combinations of points for a certain type of combination. For instance: The Delaunay triangulation of a point set and its dual , the Voronoi diagram , are mathematically related to convex hulls:

1653-437: A set of points undergoing insertions and deletions of points, and kinetic convex hull structures can keep track of the convex hull for points moving continuously. The construction of convex hulls also serves as a tool, a building block for a number of other computational-geometric algorithms such as the rotating calipers method for computing the width and diameter of a point set. Several other shapes can be defined from

1740-529: A step towards the Shapley–Folkman theorem bounding the distance of a Minkowski sum from its convex hull. The projective dual operation to constructing the convex hull of a set of points is constructing the intersection of a family of closed halfspaces that all contain the origin (or any other designated point). The convex hull of a finite point set S ⊂ R d {\displaystyle S\subset \mathbb {R} ^{d}} forms

1827-479: A unique minimal convex set containing X {\displaystyle X} , for every X {\displaystyle X} ? However, the second definition, the intersection of all convex sets containing X {\displaystyle X} , is well-defined. It is a subset of every other convex set Y {\displaystyle Y} that contains X {\displaystyle X} , because Y {\displaystyle Y}

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1914-407: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Convex hull In geometry , the convex hull , convex envelope or convex closure of a shape is the smallest convex set that contains it. The convex hull may be defined either as the intersection of all convex sets containing a given subset of a Euclidean space , or equivalently as the set of all convex combinations of points in

2001-404: Is a classic, though perhaps simplistic, approach in estimating an animal's home range based on points where the animal has been observed. Outliers can make the minimum convex polygon excessively large, which has motivated relaxed approaches that contain only a subset of the observations, for instance by choosing one of the convex layers that is close to a target percentage of the samples, or in

2088-428: Is also encoded in its cycle structure . Let σ = ( i 1 i 2 ... i r +1 )( j 1 j 2 ... j s +1 )...( ℓ 1 ℓ 2 ... ℓ u +1 ) be the unique decomposition of σ into disjoint cycles , which can be composed in any order because they commute. A cycle ( a b c ... x y z ) involving k + 1 points can always be obtained by composing k transpositions (2-cycles): so call k

2175-411: Is an arbitrary decomposition of a permutation σ into transpositions, by applying the r transpositions t 1 {\displaystyle t_{1}} after t 2 after ... after t r after the identity (whose N is zero) observe that N ( σ ) and r have the same parity. By defining the parity of σ as the parity of N ( σ ), a permutation that has an even length decomposition

2262-452: Is denoted 34521. It can be obtained from the identity permutation 12345 by three transpositions: first exchange the numbers 2 and 4, then exchange 3 and 5, and finally exchange 1 and 3. This shows that the given permutation σ is odd. Following the method of the cycle notation article, this could be written, composing from right to left, as There are many other ways of writing σ as a composition of transpositions, for instance but it

2349-399: Is either +1 or −1. Furthermore, if σ and τ are two permutations, we see that A third approach uses the presentation of the group S n in terms of generators τ 1 , ..., τ n −1 and relations Recall that a pair x , y such that x < y and σ ( x ) > σ ( y ) is called an inversion. We want to show that the count of inversions has the same parity as

2436-466: Is generalized by the Krein–Smulian theorem , according to which the closed convex hull of a weakly compact subset of a Banach space (a subset that is compact under the weak topology ) is weakly compact. An extreme point of a convex set is a point in the set that does not lie on any open line segment between any other two points of the same set. For a convex hull, every extreme point must be part of

2523-411: Is impossible to write it as a product of an even number of transpositions. The identity permutation is an even permutation. An even permutation can be obtained as the composition of an even number (and only an even number) of exchanges (called transpositions ) of two elements, while an odd permutation can be obtained by (only) an odd number of transpositions. The following rules follow directly from

2610-420: Is included among the sets being intersected. Thus, it is exactly the unique minimal convex set containing X {\displaystyle X} . Therefore, the first two definitions are equivalent. Each convex set containing X {\displaystyle X} must (by the assumption that it is convex) contain all convex combinations of points in X {\displaystyle X} , so

2697-470: Is odd, and if σ is odd then (1  2) σ is even, and these two maps are inverse to each other.) A cycle is even if and only if its length is odd. This follows from formulas like In practice, in order to determine whether a given permutation is even or odd, one writes the permutation as a product of disjoint cycles. The permutation is odd if and only if this factorization contains an odd number of even-length cycles. Another method for determining whether

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2784-397: Is the kernel of the homomorphism sgn. The odd permutations cannot form a subgroup, since the composite of two odd permutations is even, but they form a coset of A n (in S n ). If n > 1 , then there are just as many even permutations in S n as there are odd ones; consequently, A n contains n ! /2 permutations. (The reason is that if σ is even then (1  2) σ

2871-425: Is the rotation around the axis ( 1 , 0 , ϕ ) {\displaystyle (1,0,\phi )} by an angle of 2 π / 5 {\displaystyle 2\pi /5} , counterclockwise. Let the linear transformations T 0 , … , T 11 {\displaystyle T_{0},\ldots ,T_{11}} be the transformations which send

2958-663: Is the same, implying that the sign of a permutation is well-defined . Consider the permutation σ of the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} defined by σ ( 1 ) = 3 , {\displaystyle \sigma (1)=3,} σ ( 2 ) = 4 , {\displaystyle \sigma (2)=4,} σ ( 3 ) = 5 , {\displaystyle \sigma (3)=5,} σ ( 4 ) = 2 , {\displaystyle \sigma (4)=2,} and σ ( 5 ) = 1. {\displaystyle \sigma (5)=1.} In one-line notation , this permutation

3045-467: Is the union of some of the features of the Delaunay triangulation, selected by comparing their circumradius to the parameter alpha. The point set itself forms one endpoint of this family of shapes, and its convex hull forms the other endpoint. The convex layers of a point set are a nested family of convex polygons, the outermost of which is the convex hull, with the inner layers constructed recursively from

3132-508: The bijective functions from X to X ) fall into two classes of equal size: the even permutations and the odd permutations . If any total ordering of X is fixed, the parity ( oddness or evenness ) of a permutation σ {\displaystyle \sigma } of X can be defined as the parity of the number of inversions for  σ , i.e., of pairs of elements x ,  y of X such that x < y and σ ( x ) > σ ( y ) . The sign , signature , or signum of

3219-403: The geometrization conjecture in low-dimensional topology . Hyperbolic convex hulls have also been used as part of the calculation of canonical triangulations of hyperbolic manifolds , and applied to determine the equivalence of knots . See also the section on Brownian motion for the application of convex hulls to this subject, and the section on space curves for their application to

3306-435: The local convex hull method by combining convex hulls of neighborhoods of points. In quantum physics , the state space of any quantum system — the set of all ways the system can be prepared — is a convex hull whose extreme points are positive-semidefinite operators known as pure states and whose interior points are called mixed states. The Schrödinger–HJW theorem proves that any mixed state can in fact be written as

3393-451: The size of the cycle, and observe that, under this definition, transpositions are cycles of size 1. From a decomposition into m disjoint cycles we can obtain a decomposition of σ into k 1 + k 2 + ... + k m transpositions, where k i is the size of the i th cycle. The number N ( σ ) = k 1 + k 2 + ... + k m is called the discriminant of σ , and can also be computed as if we take care to include

3480-507: The upper bound theorem in higher dimensions. As well as for finite point sets, convex hulls have also been studied for simple polygons , Brownian motion , space curves , and epigraphs of functions . Convex hulls have wide applications in mathematics, statistics, combinatorial optimization, economics, geometric modeling, and ethology. Related structures include the orthogonal convex hull , convex layers , Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagram , and convex skull . A set of points in

3567-450: The 60 points T i M j p {\displaystyle T_{i}M^{j}p} are the vertices of a small snub icosicosidodecahedron. The edge length equals − 2 ξ {\displaystyle -2\xi } , the circumradius equals − 4 ξ − ϕ − 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-4\xi -\phi ^{-2}}}} , and

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3654-454: The Delaunay triangulation of a point set in R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} can be viewed as the projection of a convex hull in R n + 1 . {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n+1}.} The alpha shapes of a finite point set give a nested family of (non-convex) geometric objects describing the shape of a point set at different levels of detail. Each of alpha shape

3741-416: The convex hull at a point of angle θ {\displaystyle \theta } . The Hausdorff dimension of this set of exceptional times is (with high probability) 1 − π / 2 θ {\displaystyle 1-\pi /2\theta } . For the convex hull of a space curve or finite set of space curves in general position in three-dimensional space,

3828-445: The convex hull is a simplicial polytope . According to the upper bound theorem , the number of faces of the convex hull of n {\displaystyle n} points in d {\displaystyle d} -dimensional Euclidean space is O ( n ⌊ d / 2 ⌋ ) {\displaystyle O(n^{\lfloor d/2\rfloor })} . In particular, in two and three dimensions

3915-410: The convex hull is sometimes partitioned into two parts, the upper hull and the lower hull, stretching between the leftmost and rightmost points of the hull. More generally, for convex hulls in any dimension, one can partition the boundary of the hull into upward-facing points (points for which an upward ray is disjoint from the hull), downward-facing points, and extreme points. For three-dimensional hulls,

4002-411: The convex hull of X {\displaystyle X} is already a closed set itself (as happens, for instance, if X {\displaystyle X} is a finite set or more generally a compact set ), then it equals the closed convex hull. However, an intersection of closed half-spaces is itself closed, so when a convex hull is not closed it cannot be represented in this way. If

4089-431: The convex hull of a finite set of points in the plane or other low-dimensional Euclidean spaces, and its dual problem of intersecting half-spaces , are fundamental problems of computational geometry . They can be solved in time O ( n log ⁡ n ) {\displaystyle O(n\log n)} for two or three dimensional point sets, and in time matching the worst-case output complexity given by

4176-431: The convex hull of an open set is always itself open, and the convex hull of a compact set is always itself compact. However, there exist closed sets for which the convex hull is not closed. For instance, the closed set (the set of points that lie on or above the witch of Agnesi ) has the open upper half-plane as its convex hull. The compactness of convex hulls of compact sets, in finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces,

4263-405: The convex hull of its eigenvalues . The Russo–Dye theorem describes the convex hulls of unitary elements in a C*-algebra . In discrete geometry , both Radon's theorem and Tverberg's theorem concern the existence of partitions of point sets into subsets with intersecting convex hulls. The definitions of a convex set as containing line segments between its points, and of a convex hull as

4350-402: The convex hull property Bézier curves helps find their crossings, and convex hulls are part of the measurement of boat hulls. And in the study of animal behavior, convex hulls are used in a standard definition of the home range . Newton polygons of univariate polynomials and Newton polytopes of multivariate polynomials are convex hulls of points derived from the exponents of the terms in

4437-433: The corresponding rules about addition of integers: From these it follows that Considering the symmetric group S n of all permutations of the set {1, ..., n }, we can conclude that the map that assigns to every permutation its signature is a group homomorphism . Furthermore, we see that the even permutations form a subgroup of S n . This is the alternating group on n letters, denoted by A n . It

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4524-430: The count of 2-element swaps. To do that, we can show that every swap changes the parity of the count of inversions, no matter which two elements are being swapped and what permutation has already been applied. Suppose we want to swap the i th and the j th element. Clearly, inversions formed by i or j with an element outside of [ i , j ] will not be affected. For the n = j − i − 1 elements within

4611-558: The existence of an equilibrium. When actual economic data is non-convex , it can be made convex by taking convex hulls. The Shapley–Folkman theorem can be used to show that, for large markets, this approximation is accurate, and leads to a "quasi-equilibrium" for the original non-convex market. In geometric modeling , one of the key properties of a Bézier curve is that it lies within the convex hull of its control points. This so-called "convex hull property" can be used, for instance, in quickly detecting intersections of these curves. In

4698-414: The fixed points of σ as 1-cycles. Suppose a transposition ( a b ) is applied after a permutation σ . When a and b are in different cycles of σ then and if a and b are in the same cycle of σ then In either case, it can be seen that N (( a b ) σ ) = N ( σ ) ± 1 , so the parity of N (( a b ) σ ) will be different from the parity of N ( σ ). If σ = t 1 t 2 ... t r

4785-429: The geometry of boat and ship design, chain girth is a measurement of the size of a sailing vessel, defined using the convex hull of a cross-section of the hull of the vessel. It differs from the skin girth , the perimeter of the cross-section itself, except for boats and ships that have a convex hull. The convex hull is commonly known as the minimum convex polygon in ethology , the study of animal behavior, where it

4872-456: The given set, because otherwise it cannot be formed as a convex combination of given points. According to the Krein–Milman theorem , every compact convex set in a Euclidean space (or more generally in a locally convex topological vector space ) is the convex hull of its extreme points. However, this may not be true for convex sets that are not compact; for instance, the whole Euclidean plane and

4959-683: The hull, its distance to the new hull represents the degree of stability of the phase. The lower convex hull of points in the plane appears, in the form of a Newton polygon, in a letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg in 1676. The term "convex hull" itself appears as early as the work of Garrett Birkhoff  ( 1935 ), and the corresponding term in German appears earlier, for instance in Hans Rademacher 's review of Kőnig  ( 1922 ). Other terms, such as "convex envelope", were also used in this time frame. By 1938, according to Lloyd Dines ,

5046-508: The intersection of all convex supersets, apply to hyperbolic spaces as well as to Euclidean spaces. However, in hyperbolic space, it is also possible to consider the convex hulls of sets of ideal points , points that do not belong to the hyperbolic space itself but lie on the boundary of a model of that space. The boundaries of convex hulls of ideal points of three-dimensional hyperbolic space are analogous to ruled surfaces in Euclidean space, and their metric properties play an important role in

5133-414: The interval ( i , j ) , assume v i of them form inversions with i and v j of them form inversions with j . If i and j are swapped, those v i inversions with i are gone, but n − v i inversions are formed. The count of inversions i gained is thus n − 2 v i , which has the same parity as n . Similarly, the count of inversions j gained also has

5220-411: The midradius equals − ξ {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-\xi }}} . For a small snub icosicosidodecahedron whose edge length is 1, the circumradius is Its midradius is The other zero of P {\displaystyle P} plays a similar role in the description of the small retrosnub icosicosidodecahedron . This polyhedron -related article

5307-415: The number of faces is at most linear in n {\displaystyle n} . The convex hull of a simple polygon encloses the given polygon and is partitioned by it into regions, one of which is the polygon itself. The other regions, bounded by a polygonal chain of the polygon and a single convex hull edge, are called pockets . Computing the same decomposition recursively for each pocket forms

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5394-410: The number of input points, and h {\displaystyle h} , the number of points on the convex hull, which may be significantly smaller than n {\displaystyle n} . For higher-dimensional hulls, the number of faces of other dimensions may also come into the analysis. Graham scan can compute the convex hull of n {\displaystyle n} points in

5481-466: The numbers {1, ...,  n }, we define Since the polynomial P ( x σ ( 1 ) , … , x σ ( n ) ) {\displaystyle P(x_{\sigma (1)},\dots ,x_{\sigma (n)})} has the same factors as P ( x 1 , … , x n ) {\displaystyle P(x_{1},\dots ,x_{n})} except for their signs, it follows that sgn( σ )

5568-412: The objects. The definition using intersections of convex sets may be extended to non-Euclidean geometry , and the definition using convex combinations may be extended from Euclidean spaces to arbitrary real vector spaces or affine spaces ; convex hulls may also be generalized in a more abstract way, to oriented matroids . It is not obvious that the first definition makes sense: why should there exist

5655-530: The open convex hull of a set X {\displaystyle X} is d {\displaystyle d} -dimensional, then every point of the hull belongs to an open convex hull of at most 2 d {\displaystyle 2d} points of X {\displaystyle X} . The sets of vertices of a square, regular octahedron, or higher-dimensional cross-polytope provide examples where exactly 2 d {\displaystyle 2d} points are needed. Topologically,

5742-403: The open unit ball are both convex, but neither one has any extreme points. Choquet theory extends this theory from finite convex combinations of extreme points to infinite combinations (integrals) in more general spaces. The convex-hull operator has the characteristic properties of a closure operator : When applied to a finite set of points, this is the closure operator of an antimatroid ,

5829-438: The outermost contour of Tukey depth , are part of the bagplot visualization of two-dimensional data, and define risk sets of randomized decision rules . Convex hulls of indicator vectors of solutions to combinatorial problems are central to combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics . In economics, convex hulls can be used to apply methods of convexity in economics to non-convex markets. In geometric modeling,

5916-472: The parity of the number of inversions of a permutation is switched when composed with an adjacent transposition. Therefore, the parity of the number of inversions of σ is precisely the parity of m , which is also the parity of k . This is what we set out to prove. An alternative proof uses the Vandermonde polynomial So for instance in the case n = 3 , we have Now for a given permutation  σ of

6003-524: The parts of the boundary away from the curves are developable and ruled surfaces . Examples include the oloid , the convex hull of two circles in perpendicular planes, each passing through the other's center, the sphericon , the convex hull of two semicircles in perpendicular planes with a common center, and D-forms, the convex shapes obtained from Alexandrov's uniqueness theorem for a surface formed by gluing together two planar convex sets of equal perimeter. The convex hull or lower convex envelope of

6090-557: The plane in time O ( n log ⁡ n ) {\displaystyle O(n\log n)} . For points in two and three dimensions, more complicated output-sensitive algorithms are known that compute the convex hull in time O ( n log ⁡ h ) {\displaystyle O(n\log h)} . These include Chan's algorithm and the Kirkpatrick–Seidel algorithm . For dimensions d > 3 {\displaystyle d>3} ,

6177-416: The points encloses them with arbitrarily small surface area, smaller than the surface area of the convex hull. However, in higher dimensions, variants of the obstacle problem of finding a minimum-energy surface above a given shape can have the convex hull as their solution. For objects in three dimensions, the first definition states that the convex hull is the smallest possible convex bounding volume of

6264-492: The points that are not vertices of the convex hull. The convex skull of a polygon is the largest convex polygon contained inside it. It can be found in polynomial time , but the exponent of the algorithm is high. Convex hulls have wide applications in many fields. Within mathematics, convex hulls are used to study polynomials , matrix eigenvalues , and unitary elements , and several theorems in discrete geometry involve convex hulls. They are used in robust statistics as

6351-437: The polynomial P = x 2 + 3 x + ϕ − 2 {\displaystyle P=x^{2}+3x+\phi ^{-2}} , where ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is the golden ratio . Let the point p {\displaystyle p} be given by Let the matrix M {\displaystyle M} be given by M {\displaystyle M}

6438-452: The polynomial, and can be used to analyze the asymptotic behavior of the polynomial and the valuations of its roots. Convex hulls and polynomials also come together in the Gauss–Lucas theorem , according to which the roots of the derivative of a polynomial all lie within the convex hull of the roots of the polynomial. In spectral analysis , the numerical range of a normal matrix is

6525-532: The risk set of a randomized decision rule is the convex hull of the risk points of its underlying deterministic decision rules. In combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics , central objects of study are the convex hulls of indicator vectors of solutions to a combinatorial problem. If the facets of these polytopes can be found, describing the polytopes as intersections of halfspaces, then algorithms based on linear programming can be used to find optimal solutions. In multi-objective optimization ,

6612-430: The same parity as n . Therefore, the count of inversions gained by both combined has the same parity as 2 n or 0. Now if we count the inversions gained (or lost) by swapping the i th and the j th element, we can see that this swap changes the parity of the count of inversions, since we also add (or subtract) 1 to the number of inversions gained (or lost) for the pair (i,j) . Consider the elements that are sandwiched by

6699-529: The second and third definitions are equivalent. In fact, according to Carathéodory's theorem , if X {\displaystyle X} is a subset of a d {\displaystyle d} -dimensional Euclidean space, every convex combination of finitely many points from X {\displaystyle X} is also a convex combination of at most d + 1 {\displaystyle d+1} points in X {\displaystyle X} . The set of convex combinations of

6786-400: The set of all convex combinations is contained in the intersection of all convex sets containing X {\displaystyle X} . Conversely, the set of all convex combinations is itself a convex set containing X {\displaystyle X} , so it also contains the intersection of all convex sets containing X {\displaystyle X} , and therefore

6873-527: The shelling antimatroid of the point set. Every antimatroid can be represented in this way by convex hulls of points in a Euclidean space of high-enough dimension. The operations of constructing the convex hull and taking the Minkowski sum commute with each other, in the sense that the Minkowski sum of convex hulls of sets gives the same result as the convex hull of the Minkowski sum of the same sets. This provides

6960-512: The subset. For a bounded subset of the plane, the convex hull may be visualized as the shape enclosed by a rubber band stretched around the subset. Convex hulls of open sets are open, and convex hulls of compact sets are compact. Every compact convex set is the convex hull of its extreme points . The convex hull operator is an example of a closure operator , and every antimatroid can be represented by applying this closure operator to finite sets of points. The algorithmic problems of finding

7047-409: The term "convex hull" had become standard; Dines adds that he finds the term unfortunate, because the colloquial meaning of the word "hull" would suggest that it refers to the surface of a shape, whereas the convex hull includes the interior and not just the surface. Parity of a permutation In mathematics , when X is a finite set with at least two elements, the permutations of X (i.e.

7134-433: The theory of developable surfaces . In robust statistics , the convex hull provides one of the key components of a bagplot , a method for visualizing the spread of two-dimensional sample points. The contours of Tukey depth form a nested family of convex sets, with the convex hull outermost, and the bagplot also displays another polygon from this nested family, the contour of 50% depth. In statistical decision theory ,

7221-415: The time for computing the convex hull is O ( n ⌊ d / 2 ⌋ ) {\displaystyle O(n^{\lfloor d/2\rfloor })} , matching the worst-case output complexity of the problem. The convex hull of a simple polygon in the plane can be constructed in linear time . Dynamic convex hull data structures can be used to keep track of the convex hull of

7308-525: The transposition ( i   i+d ) on the set {1,..., i ,..., i+d ,...} as the composition of 2 d −1 adjacent transpositions by recursion on d : If we decompose in this way each of the transpositions T 1  ...  T k above, we get the new decomposition: where all of the A 1 ... A m are adjacent. Also, the parity of m is the same as that of k . This is a fact: for all permutation τ and adjacent transposition a, aτ either has one less or one more inversion than τ . In other words,

7395-439: The two elements of a transposition. Each one lies completely above, completely below, or in between the two transposition elements. An element that is either completely above or completely below contributes nothing to the inversion count when the transposition is applied. Elements in-between contribute 2 {\displaystyle 2} . The parity of a permutation of n {\displaystyle n} points

7482-502: The union of their epigraphs, or equivalently from their pointwise minimum ) and, in this form, is dual to the convex conjugate operation. In computational geometry , a number of algorithms are known for computing the convex hull for a finite set of points and for other geometric objects. Computing the convex hull means constructing an unambiguous, efficient representation of the required convex shape. Output representations that have been considered for convex hulls of point sets include

7569-451: The upward-facing and downward-facing parts of the boundary form topological disks. The closed convex hull of a set is the closure of the convex hull, and the open convex hull is the interior (or in some sources the relative interior ) of the convex hull. The closed convex hull of X {\displaystyle X} is the intersection of all closed half-spaces containing X {\displaystyle X} . If

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