Infinitesimal affine geometry of metric spaces endowed with a dilatation structure

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Authors Marius Buliga

Publication date 18 March 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0135, http://www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/Vol36-1.html

zbMATH Keywords

metric affine geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Analysis on general topological groups (22A10) General properties and structure of other Lie groups (22E20)

Abstract: We study algebraic and geometric properties of metric spaces endowed with dilatation structures, which are emergent during the passage through smaller and smaller scales. In the limit we obtain a generalization of metric affine geometry, endowed with a noncommutative vector addition operation and with a modified version of ratio of three collinear points. This is the geometry of normed affine group spaces, a category which contains the ones of homogeneous groups, Carnot groups or contractible groups. In this category group operations are not fundamental, but derived objects, and the generalization of affine geometry is not based on incidence relations.

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