Valuations on convex sets, non-commutative determinants, and pluripotential theory

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2004.08.009MaRDI QIDQ2484433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 1 August 2005

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0401219

convex set non-commutative determinant plurisubharmonic function quaternions valuation

Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33) Plurisubharmonic functions and generalizations (32U05) Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45)

Abstract: A new method of constructing translation invariant continuous valuations on convex subsets of the quaternionic space

H H^{n}

is presented. In particular new examples of

S p (n) S p (1)

-invariant translation invariant continuous valuations are constructed. This method is based on the theory of plurisubharmonic functions of quaternionic variables.

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The final aim of this paper is to construct examples of translation invariant continuous valuations on the space of compact convex subsets of the quaternionic space \({\mathbb H}^n\). In a former paper [Adv. Math. 155, 239--263 (2000; Zbl 0971.52004)], the author has considered valuations with the same properties on convex bodies in a Euclidean space \({\mathbb R}^n\) which are invariant under a compact subgroup \(G\) of the orthogonal group \(O(n)\), where \(G\) acts transitively on the unit sphere. He has shown that the vector space of these valuations has finite dimension (for \(G=O(n)\) or \(SO(n)\), it has dimension \(n+1\), by Hadwiger's celebrated theorem). For the case of \(U(n)\) and the space \({\mathbb C}^n\), the author has classified the corresponding valuations and has determined the dimension of the space they span [J. Differ. Geom. 63, 63--95 (2003; Zbl 1073.52004)]. The present paper leads to examples of invariant valuations for the case \(G= Sp(n)Sp(1)\). The way to this new construction requires the author's theory of plurisubharmonic functions of quaternionic variables [Bull. Sci. Math. 127, 1--35 (2003; Zbl 1033.15013); J. Geom. Anal. 13, 183--216 (2003; Zbl 1058.32028)]. On the way, the author extends his former theory. For example, for a right quaternionic \({\mathbb H}\)-module \(V\) of finite dimension he constructs a graded algebra \(\Omega^*(V)\), analogous to the graded algebra of exterior forms of type \((p,p)\) on a complex space, and he proves some related results.

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