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A short proof of Grünbaum's Conjecture about affine invariant points

Published 21 Feb 2016 in math.GT | (1602.06560v1)

Abstract: Let us denote by $\mathcal K_n$ the hyperspace of all convex bodies of $\mathbb Rn$ equipped with the Hausdorff distance topology. An affine invariant point $p$ is a continuous and Aff(n)-equivariant map $p:\mathcal K_n\to \mathbb Rn$, where Aff(n) denotes the group of all nonsingular affine maps of $\mathbb Rn$. For every $K\in\mathcal K_n$, let $\mathfrak{P}_n(K)={p(K)\in\mathbb Rn\mid p\text{ is an affine invariant point}}$ and $\mathfrak{F}_n(K)={x\in\mathbb Rn\mid gx=x\text{ for every }g\in Aff(n)\text{ such that }gK=K}$. In 1963, B. Gr\"unbaum conjectured that $\mathfrak{P}_n(K)=\mathfrak{F}_n(K)$ . After some partial results, the conjecture was recently proven by O. Mordhorst. In this short note we give a rather different, simpler and shorter proof of this conjecture, based merely on the topology of the action of Aff(n) on $\mathcal K_n$.

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