Normal cones and Thompson metric

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the basic properties of the Thompson metric dT in the general case of a real linear space X ordered by a cone K. We show that dT has monotonicity properties which make it compatible with the linear structure. We also prove several convexity properties of dT and some results concerning the topology of dT, including a brief study of the dT-convergence of monotone sequences. It is shown most of the results are true without any assumption of an Archimedean-type property for K. One considers various completeness properties and one studies the relations between them. Since dT is defined in the context of a generic ordered linear space, with no need of an underlying topological structure, one expects to express its completeness in terms of properties of the ordering, with respect to the linear structure. This is done in this paper and, to the best of our knowledge, this has not been done yet. The Thompson metric dT and order-unit (semi)norms |cdot|u are strongly related and share important properties, as both are defined in terms of the ordered linear structure. Although dT and |cdot|u are only topological (and not metrical) equivalent on Ku, we prove that the completeness is a common feature. One proves the completeness of the Thompson metric on a sequentially complete normal cone in a locally convex space. At the end of the paper, it is shown that, in the case of a Banach space, the normality of the cone is also necessary for the completeness of the Thompson metric.



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