Centro-affine invariants and the canonical Lorentz metric on the space of centered ellipses

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1490083221MaRDI QIDQ2358902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcos Salvai

Publication date 16 June 2017

Published in Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02347, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.kmj/1490083221

zbMATH Keywords

centroaffine invariantLorentz metricnull curveosculating ellipse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

Abstract: We consider smooth plane curves which are convex with respect to the origin. We describe centro-affine invariants (that is, GL_+(2,R)-invariants), such as centro-affine curvature and arc length, in terms of the canonical Lorentz structure on the three dimensional space of all the ellipses centered at zero, by means of null curves of osculating ellipses. This is the centro-affine analogue of the approach to conformal invariants of curves in the sphere introduced by Langevin and O'Hara, using the canonical pseudo Riemannian metric on the space of circles.

Review text

The author gives a centroaffine analogue of the approach to conformal invariants of curves in the sphere introduced by \textit{R. Langevin} and \textit{J. O'Hara} [Comment. Math. Helv. 85, No. 2, 273--312 (2010; Zbl 1213.53015)] using the canonical pseodu Riemannian metric on the space of circles.

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