Properties of Affine Sets and Affine Hulls
Characterizations and closure properties of affine sets; representation of aff(Ω).
Properties of Affine Sets and Affine Hulls
Let be a vector space and let .
Proposition (key properties):
- is affine iff it contains all affine combinations of its elements.
- If are affine, then and (for any scalar ) are affine.
- If is an affine mapping and is affine, then is affine; if is affine, then is affine.
- The affine hull is the smallest affine set containing and admits the representation
- A set is a linear subspace iff it is affine and contains .
Context: These results parallel the corresponding facts for convex sets and convex hulls , with affine combinations replacing convex combinations.