GEOMETRY OF UNITARIES IN A FINITE ALGEBRA: VARIATION FORMULAS AND CONVEXITY

DOI10.1142/S0129167X08005102zbMath1169.46029MaRDI QIDQ5506285

Esteban Andruchow, Lázaro Recht

Publication date: 28 January 2009

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

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^*\)-algebra; trace; unitary group; Finsler metric; geodesic distance; variation formulas; \(p\)-energy functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46L05: General theory of (C^*)-algebras

46L51: Noncommutative measure and integration

58B20: Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds

58B25: Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds

Related Items

Weak Riemannian manifolds from finite index subfactors, Homogeneous manifolds from noncommutative measure spaces, Metric geometry of partial isometries in a finite von Neumann algebra, Finsler geometry and actions of the $p$-Schatten unitary groups

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