Elliptic distances in Hilbert spaces

DOI10.1007/PL00000123MaRDI QIDQ1972869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Benz

Publication date 22 October 2000

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00000123

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic and spherical geometryfunctional equationHilbert spaceisometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrix and operator functional equations (39B42) Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) General theory of distance geometry (51K05) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10)

Review text

Let \(X_0\) denote the set of all nonzero vectors in a pre Hilbert space of dimension at least 2. The author determines all mappings \(f: X_0 \to X_0\) satisfying the functional equation \[ {\bigl|f(x)f(y) \bigr |\over\bigl \|f(x)\bigr \|\cdot \bigl\|f(y)\bigr \|}= {|xy|\over\|x\|\cdot\|y\|}\quad (x,y\in X_0) \] and also all \(f:X_0 \to X_0\) with \[ {f(x)f(y) \over\bigl\|f(x) \bigr\|\cdot \bigl\|f(y) \bigr \|}= {xy\over\|x\|\cdot\|y\|}\quad (x,y\in X_0). \] He also deals with elliptic and spherical geometry on the basis of the distance notions \[ \cos\varepsilon(x,y)={|xy|\over\|x\|\cdot\|y \|}\quad\text{and}\quad\cos\sigma(x,y)={xy\over\|x\|\cdot\|y \|}, \] respectively. Finally, he describes all the corresponding isometries of \(X_0\).

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