Connections and Finsler geometry of the structure group of a JB-algebra

MaRDI QIDQ6402463zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gabriel Larotonda, José Luna

Publication date 18 June 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65)

Abstract: We endow the Banach-Lie structure group $Str(V)$ of an infinite dimensional JB-algebra $V$ with a left-invariant connection and Finsler metric, and we compute all the quantities of its connection. We show how this connection reduces to $G(Omega)$, the group of transformations that preserve the positive cone $Omega$ of the algebra $V$, and to $Aut(V)$, the group of Jordan automorphisms of the algebra. We present the cone $Omega$ as an homogeneous space for the action of $G(Omega)$, therefore inducing a quotient Finsler metric and distance. With the techniques introduced, we prove the minimality of the one-parameter groups in $Omega$ for any symmetric gauge norm in $V$. We establish that the two presentations of the Finsler metric in $Omega$ give the same distance there, which helps us prove the minimality of certain paths in $G(Omega)$ for its left-invariant Finsler metric.

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