Unique geodesics for Thompson's metric

DOI10.5802/AIF.2932MaRDI QIDQ748360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bas Lemmens, Mark Roelands

Publication date 20 October 2015

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6643

zbMATH Keywords

isometriesconesgeodesicsHilbert's (projective) metricThompson's (part) metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Monotone and positive operators on ordered Banach spaces or other ordered topological vector spaces (47H07) Metric geometry (51F99)

Abstract: In this paper a geometric characterization of the unique geodesics in Thompson's metric spaces is presented. This characterization is used to prove a variety of other geometric results. Firstly, it will be shown that there exists a unique Thompson's metric geodesic connecting $x$ and $y$ in the cone of positive self-adjoint elements in a unital $C^{\ast }$-algebra if, and only if, the spectrum of $x^{-1/2}y{x}^{-1/2}$ is contained in $$ for some $$. A similar result will be established for symmetric cones. Secondly, it will be shown that if $C^{c}irc$ is the interior of a finite-dimensional closed cone $C$, then the Thompson's metric space $(C^{c}irc,d_C)$ can be quasi-isometrically embedded into a finite-dimensional normed space if, and only if, $C$ is a polyhedral cone. Moreover, $(C^{c}irc,d_C)$ is isometric to a finite-dimensional normed space if, and only if, $C$ is a simplicial cone. It will also be shown that if $C^{c}irc$ is the interior of a strictly convex cone $C$ with $3leqdimC<infty$, then every Thompson's metric isometry is projectively linear.

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