Incidence axioms for the boundary at infinity of complex hyperbolic spaces

DOI10.1515/AGMS-2015-0015zbMATH Open1344.53026arXiv1409.0984OpenAlexW2962855399WikidataQ125862189 ScholiaQ125862189MaRDI QIDQ496261FDOQ496261

Authors: Viktor Schroeder, Sergei V. Buyalo 

Publication date: 21 September 2015

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

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

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)

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Cited In (5)

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

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