DISTANCE GEOMETRY IN QUASIHYPERMETRIC SPACES. I

DOI10.1017/S0004972708000932zbMATH Open1221.51019arXiv0809.0740MaRDI QIDQ5322932FDOQ5322932

Authors: Peter Nickolas, R. Wolf 

Publication date: 23 July 2009

Published in: Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space and let $mathcalM(X)$ denote the space of all finite signed Borel measures on $X$. Define $IcolonmathcalM(X)oR$ by [I(mu) = int_X int_X d(x,y) dmu(x) dmu(y),] and set $M(X)=supI(mu)$, where $mu$ ranges over the collection of signed measures in $mathcalM(X)$ of total mass 1. The metric space $(X,d)$ is quasihypermetric if for all $ninN$, all $alph{a}_1,\mathrm{...},alph{a}_{n}inR$ satisfying $su{m}_{i=1}^{n}alph{a}_i=0$ and all $x_1,\mathrm{...},x_{n}inX$, one has $su{m}_{i,j=1}^{n}alph{a}_{i}alph{a}_{j}d(x_i,x_j)leq0$. Without the quasihypermetric property $M(X)$ is infinite, while with the property a natural semi-inner product structure becomes available on $mathcal{M}_0(X)$, the subspace of $mathcalM(X)$ of all measures of total mass 0. This paper explores: operators and functionals which provide natural links between the metric structure of $(X,d)$, the semi-inner product space structure of $mathcal{M}_0(X)$ and the Banach space $C(X)$ of continuous real-valued functions on $X$; conditions equivalent to the quasihypermetric property; the topological properties of $mathcal{M}_0(X)$ with the topology induced by the semi-inner product, and especially the relation of this topology to the weak-$\ast$ topology and the measure-norm topology on $mathcal{M}_0(X)$; and the functional-analytic properties of $mathcal{M}_0(X)$ as a semi-inner product space, including the question of its completeness. A later paper [Peter Nickolas and Reinhard Wolf, Distance Geometry in Quasihypermetric Spaces. II] will apply the work of this paper to a detailed analysis of the constant $M(X)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0740

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zbMATH Keywords

compact metric spacesigned measurefinite metric spacemetric embeddingdistance geometrygeometric constantspaces of measuresquasihypermetric spacesigned measure of mass zero

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other generalizations (nonlinear potential theory, etc.) (31C45) General theory of distance geometry (51K05) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45)

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