The horofunction boundary of the Hilbert geometry

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM.2008.032zbMath1155.53335arXivmath/0611920MaRDI QIDQ3546152

Cormac Walsh

Publication date: 18 December 2008

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611920

zbMATH Keywords

Busemann functionmax-plus algebraHilbert geometryhoroballHilbert's projective metricmetric boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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Cites Work

• Hilbert metrics and Minkowski norms
• The barycenter method on singular spaces
• Revisiting the Siegel upper half plane. I.
• Boundaries of hyperbolic metric spaces
• Horofunctions and symbolic dynamics on Gromov hyperbolic groups
• The horofunction boundary of finite-dimensional normed spaces
• Busemann points of infinite graphs

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