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A note on polyhedral cones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Bit-Shun Tam
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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Abstract

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In this short note, two results on a solid, pointed, closed cone C in Rn will be given: first, C is polyhedral iff it has a finite number of maximal faces; second, for any face F of C, C* ∩ F is a face of its dual cone C* of dimension n – dim F.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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