Midpoints for Thompson's metric on symmetric cones

zbMATH Open1373.53055arXiv1507.03087MaRDI QIDQ522141FDOQ522141

Bas Lemmens, Mark Roelands

Publication date: 13 April 2017

Published in: Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterise the affine span of the midpoints sets for Thompson's metric on symmetric cones in terms of a translation of the zero-component of the Peirce decomposition of an idempotent. As a consequence we derive an explicit formula for the dimension of the affine span of the midpoints sets in case the associated Euclidean Jordan algebra is simple.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03087

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zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean Jordan algebramidpointsPeirce decompositionThomson's metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

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