The horofunction boundary of the Hilbert geometry

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM.2008.032zbMATH Open1155.53335arXivmath/0611920MaRDI QIDQ3546152FDOQ3546152

Authors: Cormac Walsh 

Publication date: 18 December 2008

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the horofunction boundary of the Hilbert geometry defined on an arbitrary finite-dimensional bounded convex domain D. We determine its set of Busemann points, which are those points that are the limits of `almost-geodesics'. In addition, we show that any sequence of points converging to a point in the horofunction boundary also converges in the usual sense to a point in the Euclidean boundary of D. We prove that all horofunctions are Busemann points if and only if the set of extreme sets of the polar of D is closed in the Painleve-Kuratowski topology.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

horoballmax-plus algebraBusemann functionHilbert geometryHilbert's projective metricmetric boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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