Volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries
Differential Geometry
2010-05-21 v2 Metric Geometry
Abstract
It is shown that the volume entropy of a Hilbert geometry associated to an -dimensional convex body of class equals . To achieve this result, a new projective invariant of convex bodies, similar to the centro-affine area, is constructed. In the case , and without any assumption on the boundary, it is shown that the entropy is bounded above by , where is the Minkowski dimension of the extremal set of . An example of a plane Hilbert geometry with entropy strictly between 0 and 1 is constructed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.1123,
title = {Volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries},
author = {Gautier Berck and Andreas Bernig and Constantin Vernicos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1123},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
27 pages; minor changes