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We show that groups with a mild form of non-positive curvature (a navigable path system) satisfy the weak rank rigidity conjecture: they either have linear divergence or a Morse element. This class includes discrete groups of projective…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Cornelia Drutu , Davide Spriano , Stefanie Zbinden

Wigner's theorem characterizes isometries of the set of all rank one projections on a Hilbert space. In metric geometry nonexpansive maps and noncontractive maps are well studied generalizations of isometries. We show that under certain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Michiya Mori , Peter Šemrl

We extend the results of Riemannian geometry over finite groups and provide a full classification of all linear connections for the minimal noncommutative differential calculus over a finite cyclic group. We solve the torsion-free and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Arkadiusz Bochniak , Andrzej Sitarz , Paweł Zalecki

In this paper we study the area of ideals triangles in a convex domain with its Hilbert geometry. We obtain a characterization of the hyperbolic geometry among all the Hilbert geometry in terms of area of ideals triangles. We also obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Bruno Colbois , Constantin Vernicos , Patrick Verovic

We show that the cyclic and epicyclic categories which play a key role in the encoding of cyclic homology and the lambda operations, are obtained from projective geometry in characteristic one over the infinite semifield F of "max-plus…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Alain Connes , Caterina Consani

The large-scale geometry of hyperbolic metric spaces exhibits many distinctive features, such as the stability of quasi-geodesics (the Morse Lemma), the visibility property, and the homeomorphism between visual boundaries induced by a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Bruce Kleiner , Urs Lang

Let G be a non-elementary group of isometries of a proper CAT(0)-space with limit set L. We survey properties of the action of G on L under the assumption that G contains a rank-one element. Among others, we show that there is a dense orbit…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-18 Ursula Hamenstaedt

Infinite-dimensional manifolds modelled on arbitrary Hilbert spaces of functions are considered. It is shown that changes in model rather than changes of charts within the same model make coordinate formalisms on finite and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey A. Kryukov

The aim of this article is the proof of the following result: Let M be a connected manifold endowed with a regular Cartan geometry modelled on the boundary X of the d-dimensional real (resp. complex, resp. quaternionic, resp. octonionic)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles Frances

Isomorphisms of separable Hilbert spaces are analogous to isomorphisms of n-dimensional vector spaces. However, while n-dimensional spaces in applications are always realized as the Euclidean space R^n, Hilbert spaces admit various useful…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey A. Kryukov

A quasi-tree is a geodesic metric space quasi-isometric to a tree. We give a general construction of many actions of groups on quasi-trees. The groups we can handle include non-elementary (relatively) hyperbolic groups, rank 1 CAT(0)…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Mladen Bestvina , Kenneth Bromberg , Koji Fujiwara

We study a notion of convex cocompactness for discrete subgroups of the projective general linear group acting (not necessarily irreducibly) on real projective space, and give various characterizations. A convex cocompact group in this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Jeffrey Danciger , François Guéritaud , Fanny Kassel

We study isometric actions of tree automorphism groups on the infinite-dimensional hyperbolic spaces. On the one hand, we exhibit a general one-parameter family of such representations and analyse the corresponding equivariant embeddings of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-10 M. Burger , A. Iozzi , N. Monod

In this paper, the notions of first-order and second-order generalized linear spans and index set are defined. Moreover, their properties are investigated and applied to the studies of extension of isometries. We develop the theory of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-29 Soon-Mo Jung

We address a question from \cite{BKV25} regarding the finiteness of the homological $R$-isoperimetric function. Let $R$ be a subfield of the complex numbers $\mathbb{C}$ with the absolute value norm. We prove that for any group $G$ that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza , Diana Vizcaíno Torres

A 2-Hilbert space is a category with structures and properties analogous to those of a Hilbert space. More precisely, we define a 2-Hilbert space to be an abelian category enriched over Hilb with a *-structure, conjugate-linear on the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 John C. Baez

Given a 2-manifold, a fundamental question to ask is which groups can be realized as the isometry group of a Riemannan metric of constant curvature on the manifold. In this paper, we give a nearly complete classification of such groups for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Tarik Aougab , Priyam Patel , Nicholas G. Vlamis

A key technique of machine learning and computer vision is to embed discrete weighted graphs into continuous spaces for further downstream processing. Embedding discrete hierarchical structures in hyperbolic geometry has proven very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Frank Nielsen , Ke Sun

We prove that any group acting essentially without a fixed point at infinity on an irreducible finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complex contains a rank one isometry. This implies that the Rank Rigidity Conjecture holds for CAT(0) cube…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-19 Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace , Michah Sageev

Given a complex Hilbert space H, we study the differential geometry of the manifold M of all projections in V:=L(H). Using the algebraic structure of V, a torsionfree affine connection $\nabla$ (that is invariant under the group of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. M. Isidro , M. Mackey