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Midpoints for Thompson's metric on symmetric cones

Metric Geometry 2015-07-14 v1

Abstract

We characterise the affine span of the midpoints sets for Thompson's metric on symmetric cones in terms of a translation of the zero-component of the Peirce decomposition of an idempotent. As a consequence we derive an explicit formula for the dimension of the affine span of the midpoints sets in case the associated Euclidean Jordan algebra is simple.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03087,
  title  = {Midpoints for Thompson's metric on symmetric cones},
  author = {Bas Lemmens and Mark Roelands},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03087},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages

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