Beyond pseudo-rotations in pseudo-Euclidean spaces. An introduction to the theory of bi-gyrogroups and bi-gyrovector spaces (Q2362254)

This monograph is a synthesis of the author's work on gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces (since 1988) as well as on their generalizations, the bi-gyrogroups and bi-gyrovector spaces. The content, by chapters, is the following: 1. Introduction; 2. Einstein gyrogroups; 3. Einstein gyrovector spaces; 4. Bi-gyrogroups and bi-gyrovector spaces \(-P\); 5. Bi-gyrogroups and bi-gyrovector spaces \(-V\); 6. Applications to time-space of signature (\(m,n\)); 7. Analytic bi-hyperbolic geometry: The geometry of bi-gyrovector spaces. This very original but highly technical book starts with an interesting modelization of the Einstein addition of the velocities in the relativistic setting, by considering it as the (nonassociative) composition law of a special groupoid, called gyrogroup. Passing from the signature \((-,+,\dots,+)\) to an arbitrary one gives rise to the generalization: the bi-gyrogroup. The gyrospaces are gyrocommutative gyrogroups which are subsets of a Euclidean vector space, such that the vector operations, the inherited inner product and norm are in some sense compatible with the gyrogroup addition. The first kind of applications are in theoretical physics and are connected to generalizations of the relativistic notions for multi-time spacetimes. The second applications deal with the geometry of the bi-hyperbolic spaces, which extends the analytic hyperbolic geometry of Lobachevsky and Bolyai.