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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 Δ2\Delta_2 be a simplex on the 2-sphere and Δ~2\tilde{\Delta}_2 the antipodal simplex. We show that the timelike spherical Hilbert geometry associated with the pair Δ2,Δ~2\Delta_2, \tilde{\Delta}_2 is isometric to a union of six copies of vector spaces equipped with a timelike norm, isometrically and transitively acted upon by the group R>02×Z3×Z2\mathbb{R}_{>0}^2 \times \mathbb{Z}_3\times \mathbb{Z}_2. 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}
}
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