Hilbert geometries have bounded local geometry

DOI10.5802/AIF.2297MaRDI QIDQ2372835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruno Colbois, Constantin Vernicos

Publication date 1 August 2007

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604461, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIF_2007__57_4_1359_0, https://eudml.org/doc/10261

zbMATH Keywords

bottom of the spectrumHilbert geometrieshyperbolicitylocal geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We prove that the Hilbert geometry of a convex domain in ${mathbbR}^n$ has bounded local geometry, i.e., for a given radius, all balls are bilipschitz to a euclidean domain of ${mathbbR}^n$. As a consequence, if the Hilbert geometry is also Gromov hyperbolic, then the bottom of its spectrum is strictly positive. We also give a counter exemple in dimension three which shows that the reciprocal is not true for non plane Hilbert geometries.

Review text

A Hilbert geometry is an open, bounded, convex set \(C \) in \(\mathbb R^{n}\) with the distance function defined as follows: For \(p,q\) in \(C \) there are two points \(a,b\) on the line through \(p\) and \(q\) belonging to the boundary of \(C\) with the order \(a,p,q,b\) along the line. Then \(d(p,q)=\frac{1}{2}\ln [a,p,q,b]\) where \([a,p,q,b]\) is the cross ratio. This paper shows that a Hilbert geometry has bounded local geometry, which says that all balls of a given radius are bi-Lipschitz to a Euclidean domain in \(\mathbb R^{n}\). It is also shown that a planar Hilbert geometry which is Gromov hyperbolic has strictly positive Cheeger constant.

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