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Valuation theory of indefinite orthogonal groups

Differential Geometry 2018-01-30 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Let SO+(p,q)\mathrm{SO}^+(p,q) denote the identity connected component of the real orthogonal group with signature (p,q)(p,q). We give a complete description of the spaces of continuous and generalized translation- and SO+(p,q)\mathrm{SO}^+(p,q)-invariant valuations, generalizing Hadwiger's classification of Euclidean isometry-invariant valuations. As a result of independent interest, we identify within the space of translation-invariant valuations the class of Klain-Schneider continuous valuations, which strictly contains all continuous translation-invariant valuations. The operations of pull-back and push-forward by a linear map extend naturally to this class.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.08760,
  title  = {Valuation theory of indefinite orthogonal groups},
  author = {Andreas Bernig and Dmitry Faifman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08760},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

65 pages; Some details in proofs added and minor mistakes corrected, an appendix on wave front sets of G-invariant distributions and a section on the linear algebra of O(p,q) added. Accepted for publication in Journal of Functional Analysis

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