The Funk and Hilbert geometries for spaces of constant curvature

DOI10.1007/S00605-013-0513-2zbMATH Open1278.58002arXiv1209.4160OpenAlexW2088628115MaRDI QIDQ372820FDOQ372820

Authors: Athanase Papadopoulos, Sumio Yamada 

Publication date: 21 October 2013

Published in: Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to introduce and study analogues of the Euclidean Funk and Hilbert metrics on open convex subsets $Omega$ of hyperbolic or spherical spaces. At least at a formal level, there are striking similarities among the three cases: Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic. We start by defining non-Euclidean analogues of the Euclidean Funk weak metric and we give three distinct representations of it in each of the non-Euclidean cases, which parallel the known situation for the Euclidean case. As a consequence, all of these metrics are shown to be Finslerian, and the associated norms of the Finsler metrics are described. The theory is developed by using a set of classical trigonometric identities on the sphere $S^n$ and the hyperbolic space $mathbb{H}^n$ and the definition of a cross ratio on the non-Euclidean spaces of constant curvature. This in turn leads to the concept of projectivity invariance in these spaces. We then study the geodesics of the Funk and Hilbert metrics. In the case of Euclidean (respectively spherical, hyperbolic) geometry, the Euclidean (respectively spherical, hyperbolic) geodesics are Funk and Hilbert geodesics. Natural projection maps that exist between the spaces $mathbb{R}^n$, $mathbb{H}^n$ and the upper hemisphere demonstrate that the theories of Hilbert geometry of convex sets in the three spaces of constant curvature are all equivalent. The same cannot be said about the Funk geometries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4160

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceprojective geometrynon-Euclidean geometryHilbert metricconstant curvaturecross ratioFunk metricgeneralized Beltrami-Klein modelnon-Euclidean trigonometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20)

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