Incidence axioms for the boundary at infinity of complex hyperbolic spaces

DOI10.1515/AGMS-2015-0015MaRDI QIDQ496261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Viktor Schroeder, Sergei V. Buyalo

Publication date 21 September 2015

Published in Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0984

zbMATH Keywords

Ptolemy spacescomplex hyperbolic spacesincidence axioms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: We characterize the boundary at infinity of a complex hyperbolic space as a compact Ptolemy space that satisfies four incidence axioms.

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• Möbius structures and timed causal spaces on the circle
• Toward a quasi-Möbius characterization of invertible homogeneous metric spaces
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• Generalized angles in Ptolemaic Möbius structures
• The Ptolemaean inequality in the closure of complexhyperbolic planes

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