On quasilinear spaces of convex bodies and intervals

Algebraic systems abstracting properties of convex bodies and intervals, with respect to addition and multiplication by scalars, known as quasilinear spaces, are studied axiomatically. We discuss special quasilinear spaces with group structure called quasivector spaces. We show that every quasivector space is a direct sum of a vector space and a symmetric quasivector space. A complete characterization of symmetric quasivector spaces in the finite dimensional case is given, which permits to reduce computation in quasilinear spaces to computation in familiar vector spaces.