Convex radiant costarshaped sets and the least sublinear gauge

The paper studies convex radiant sets (i.e. containing the origin) of a
linear normed space X and their representation by means of a gauge. By
gauge of a convex radiant set C ⊆ X we mean a sublinear function p : X → R
such that C = [p ≤ 1]. Besides the most important instance, namely the
Minkowski gauge µC(x) = inf{λ > 0 : x ∈ λC}, the set C may have other
gauges, which are necessarily lower than µC. We characterize the class of
convex radiant sets which admit a gauge different from µC in two different
way: they are contained in a translate of their recession cone or, equivalently,
they are costarshaped, that is complement of a starshaped set. We prove that
the family of all sublinear gauges of a convex radiant set admits a least element
and characterize its support set in terms of polar sets. The key concept for this
study is the outer kernel of C, that is the kernel (in the sense of Starshaped
Analysis) of the complement of C. We also devote some attention to the
relation between costarshaped and hyperbolic convex sets.