Blunt and Pointed Cones
According to the above definition, if C is a convex cone, then C{0} is a convex cone, too. A convex cone is said to be pointed or blunt depending on whether it includes the null vector 0 or not. Blunt cones can be excluded from the definition of convex cone by substituting "non-negative" for "positive" in the condition of α, β. The term "pointed" is also often used to refer to a closed cone that contains no complete line (i.e., no nontrivial subspace of the ambient vector space V), i.e. what is called a "salient" cone below.
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