Timelike Hilbert geometry of the spherical simplex
Differential Geometry
2023-03-09 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We prove the following result on the timelike spherical Hilbert geometry of simplices: Let be a simplex on the 2-sphere and the antipodal simplex. We show that the timelike spherical Hilbert geometry associated with the pair is isometric to a union of six copies of vector spaces equipped with a timelike norm, isometrically and transitively acted upon by the group . This is a timelike spherical analogue of a well-known result (due to Busemann) stating that the Hilbert metric of a Euclidean simplex is isometric to a metric induced by a normed vector space. At the same time, this gives a new example of timelike space.
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@article{arxiv.2303.04567,
title = {Timelike Hilbert geometry of the spherical simplex},
author = {Athanase Papadopoulos and Sumio Yamada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04567},
year = {2023}
}