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Polyhedral Horofunction Compactification as a Polyhedral Ball

Geometric Topology 2024-05-09 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we answer positively a question raised by Kapovich and Leeb in a paper titled "Finsler bordifications of symmetric and certain locally symmetric spaces". Specifically, we show that for a finite-dimensional vector space with a polyhedral norm, its horofunction compactification is homeomorphic to the dual unit ball of the norm by an explicit map. To prove this, we establish a criterion for converging sequences in the horofunction compactification and generalize the basic notion of the moment map in the theory of toric varieties.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00564,
  title  = {Polyhedral Horofunction Compactification as a Polyhedral Ball},
  author = {Lizhen Ji and Anna-Sofie Schilling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00564},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

26 pages, 6 figures; major revision to make it more accessible and understandable

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