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Crofton formulae and geodesic distance in hyperbolic spaces

Functional Analysis 2013-02-26 v1

Abstract

The geodesic distance between points in real hyperbolic space is a hypermetric, and hence is a kernel negative type. The proof given here uses an integral formula for geodesic distance, in terms of a measure on the space of hyperplanes. An analogous integral formula, involving the space of horospheres, is given for complex hyperbolic space.By contrast geodesic distance in a projective space is not of negative type.

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@article{arxiv.1302.5790,
  title  = {Crofton formulae and geodesic distance in hyperbolic spaces},
  author = {Guyan Robertson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5790},
  year   = {2013}
}
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