Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4658019 | Topology and its Applications | 2016 | 6 Pages |
Let us denote by KnKn the hyperspace of all convex bodies of RnRn equipped with the Hausdorff distance topology. An affine invariant point p is a continuous and Aff(n)Aff(n)-equivariant map p:Kn→Rnp:Kn→Rn, where Aff(n)Aff(n) denotes the group of all nonsingular affine maps of RnRn. For every K∈KnK∈Kn, let Pn(K)={p(K)∈Rn|p is an affine invariant point}Pn(K)={p(K)∈Rn|p is an affine invariant point} and Fn(K)={x∈Rn|gx=x for every g∈Aff(n) such that gK=K}Fn(K)={x∈Rn|gx=x for every g∈Aff(n) such that gK=K}. In 1963, B. Grünbaum conjectured that Pn(K)=Fn(K)Pn(K)=Fn(K)[3]. After some partial results, the conjecture was recently proven in [6].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)Aff(n) on KnKn.