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Conformal Barycenters in Quaternionic Hyperbolic Balls

Mathematical Physics 2026-05-21 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We extend the notion of conformal barycenter, recently introduced by Ja\v{c}imovi\'{c} and Kalaj for the complex hyperbolic ball, to the quaternionic unit ball \BH\BH. The quaternionic conformal barycenter of a measurable set DD with finite hyperbolic measure and finite first moment is defined as the unique point cc such that DΦc(q)\dLam(q)=0\int_D \Phi_c(q)\, \dLam(q) = \mathbf{0}, where Φc\Phi_c is the quaternionic Hua involution exchanging 00 and cc. Equivalently, it is the unique minimum of the energy functional G(x)=Dlogcosh2 ⁣(12dH(x,y))\dLam(y)G(x) = \int_D \log\cosh^2\!\big(\frac12 d_H(x,y)\big)\, \dLam(y). We prove existence and uniqueness using the strict geodesic convexity of GG, which is established by a direct computation along geodesics. The barycenter is invariant under the full isometry group Sp(n,1)\mathrm{Sp}(n,1). We also treat finite point sets and provide explicit examples.

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@article{arxiv.2605.20662,
  title  = {Conformal Barycenters in Quaternionic Hyperbolic Balls},
  author = {Wensheng Cao and Zhijian Ge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20662},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages