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Every forward sector has nonempty interior
Statement
Under Forward-sector hypotheses for a simple state domain, every forward sector has nonempty interior in its ambient simple domain .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A1–A7 and S1–S3 on an open convex , .
Forward-sector hypotheses for a simple state domain: each sector is supported at every state by exactly one hyperplane, and every state has a strict successor.
Convexity and relative closedness of forward sectors: is convex and closed relative to ; if , then by transitivity.
Supporting hyperplanes at relative boundary points: a convex set has a support at its relative boundary in its affine hull, and a set of affine dimension at most has at least two distinct ambient supports through each of its points.
Relative interiors of finite-dimensional convex sets: a convex set has nonempty relative interior, and every segment from a relative-interior point to a closure point, except for the closure endpoint, stays in the relative interior.
Proof
Suppose has empty ambient interior. If , S1 supplies a strict successor ; convexity puts the nondegenerate interval between and in , contradicting empty interior. Thus take . The affine hull of has dimension at most . If its dimension were at most , [F2] would give two distinct supporting hyperplanes at , contradicting S2. Hence its affine hull is a hyperplane ; this supports at every point, including .
By S1 choose with . Then and . Transitivity gives . If had affine dimension at most , [F2] would again give multiple ambient supports at , contrary to S2. Thus .
Choose by [F3]. The segment from to is contained in by convexity of both sets, starts in , and ends outside . Its intersection with is closed by relative closedness [F1], so it has a last point before . Points immediately after on this segment lie outside and, because is closed in the open set , outside . Thus . The support statement [F2] supplies a nonzero functional on whose zero hyperplane supports at .
Extend this functional to the ambient Euclidean space by taking its normal vector in the direction space of . Its zero hyperplane contains the within- support and is not itself. Since , transitivity gives , so the extended plane supports at ; the plane also supports . These are distinct, contradicting S2 at . Therefore has nonempty ambient interior.