Geometries of the projective matrix space. II

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(86)90161-4MaRDI QIDQ1080174zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Binyamin Schwarz, Abraham Zaks

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(86)90161-4

zbMATH Keywords

complex matrix projective lineHermitian quadratic formMöbius transformationsRiemann spherespherical, Euclidean and non-Euclidean circlesstereographic projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other matrix groups over fields (20H20) Möbius geometries (51B10) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Analytic geometry with other transformation groups (51N25)

Review text

Recently [cf. part I, ibid. 95, 263-307 (1985; Zbl 0589.51011)] the authors investigated the Euclidean, spherical and non-Euclidean metrics on suitable subspaces of the complex matrix projective line \(P_ 1(M_ n({\mathbb{C}}))\). Their interest is now focused at the Möbius transformations \(W(Z)=(ZC+D)^{-1}(ZA+B)\), where A, B, C, D, Z are \(n\times n\) complex matrices. The concepts complex plane, Riemann sphere and unit disk are generalized accordingly. In chapter 1 the spherical, Euclidean and non-Euclidean circles are defined and studied in terms of (i) points at given distance from some point resp. (ii) zeroes of some (Hermitian) quadratic form. Chapter 2 deals with Möbius transformations that carry the unit disk into itself, as well as those that carry (or interchange) Hermitian and unitary matrices. Finally (chapter 3), the stereographic projection from the generalized Riemann sphere to the Euclidean plane is introduced; various properties of this map are dicussed.

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