Ball Convex Bodies in Minkowski Spaces
Thomas Jahn, Christian Richter, Horst Martini

TL;DR
This paper explores the geometric properties of ball convex bodies in normed spaces, including separation theorems, characterizations of strict convexity, and representations of these bodies, extending classical convexity concepts.
Contribution
It introduces new results on minimal representations, union-based representations, and convexity properties of ball convex bodies in Minkowski spaces.
Findings
Derived separation theorems for ball convex sets
Characterized strict convexity via ball convexity properties
Established representation results for ball hulls of sets
Abstract
The notion of ball convexity, considered in finite dimensional real Banach spaces, is a natural and useful extension of usual convexity; one replaces intersections of half-spaces by suitable intersections of balls. A subset of a normed space is called ball convex if it coincides with its ball hull, which is obtained as intersection of all balls (of fixed radius) containing . Ball convex sets are closely related to notions like ball polytopes, complete sets, bodies of constant width, and spindle convexity. We will study geometric properties of ball convex bodies in normed spaces, for example deriving separation theorems, characterizations of strictly convex norms, and an application to complete sets. Our main results refer to minimal representations of ball convex bodies in terms of their ball exposed faces, to representations of ball hulls of sets via unions of ball hulls of…
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