Jordan Geometries - an Approach by Inversions
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Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Associated geometries of Jordan algebras (17C37) Ternary systems (heaps, semiheaps, heapoids, etc.) (20N10) Hermitian symmetric spaces, bounded symmetric domains, Jordan algebras (complex-analytic aspects) (32M15) Ring geometry (Hjelmslev, Barbilian, etc.) (51C05) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)
Abstract: Jordan geometries are defined as spaces equipped with point reflections depending on triples of points, exchanging two of the points and fixing the third. In a similar way, symmetric spaces have been defined by Loos (Symmetric Spaces I, 1969) as spaces equipped with point reflections depending on a point and fixing this point; therefore the theories of Jordan geometries and of symmetric spaces are closely related to each other -- in order to describe this link, the notion of symmetry actions of torsors and of symmetric spaces is introduced. Jordan geometries give rise both to symmetry actions of certain abelian torsors and of certain symmetric spaces, which in a sense are dual to each other. By using an algebraic differential calculus generalizing the classical Weil functors (see arxiv:1402.2619), we attach a tangent object to such geometries, namely a Jordan pair, respectively a Jordan algebra. The present approach works equally well over base rings in which 2 is not invertible (and in particular over the integers), and hence can be seen as a globalization of quadratic Jordan pairs; it also has a very transparent relation with the theory of associative geometries developped by M. Kinyon and the author.
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