The Finsler geometry of certain covering groups of operator groups

DOI10.14492/HOKMJ/1381517780MaRDI QIDQ1121568zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 1989

Published in Hokkaido Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.14492/hokmj/1381517780

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler geometryFredholm spinor groupFredholm unitary groupsymplectic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B99)

Review text

In J. Aust. Math. Soc. 42, 196-222 (1987; Zbl 0614.58007), the author has investigated the Finsler geometry - in a natural Finsler structure - of both the full and the Fredholm unitary, orthogonal, and symplectic groups of a Hilbert space. In this sequel he considers similar questions for the associated non-trivial covering groups, namely the Fredholm spinor group and the coverings of the Fredholm unitary group. There is no evident relation between the global Finsler geometry of a covering group and that of the original group, unless one remains sufficiently close to the identity, and the author presents some unexpected results, e.g. that the universal cover of the Fredholm unitary group is bounded if and only if the underlying Hilbert space is of infinite dimension.

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