Abstract

We give an elementary proof of a theorem of Brickman, which establishes the convexity of the image of the unit sphere of a space with dimension at least three under a vector mapping into R2 whose component functions are quadratic forms. We also discuss some consequences of this theorem regarding the range of that mapping.

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Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz

CODE and Departament d'Economica i d'Historia Economica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain

JuanEnrique.Martinez@uab.es

Keywords

  • Quadratic forms
  • convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification

15A63, 52A10

Suggested citation

J. E. Martínez-Legaz. “On Brickman's Theorem.” Journal of Convex Analysis 12 (2005), No. 1, 139–143.

Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2005