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

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Authors: Gabriel Larotonda, José Luna 

Publication date: 18 June 2022

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.

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)

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