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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155827703321

Autore

Papadopoulos

Titolo

Handbook of Hilbert Geometry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

EMS Press, 2014

ISBN

3-03719-647-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 pages)

Collana

IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (irma) ; 22 , 2523-5141

Classificazione

01A55

35Q53

37D25

37D20

37D40

47H09

51-00

51-02

51-03

51A05

51B20

51F99

51K05

51K10

51K99

51M10

52A07

52A20

52A99

53A20

53A35

53B40

53C22

53C24

53C60

53C70

57S25

58-00

58-02

58-03

58B20

58D05



Soggetti

Differential & Riemannian geometry

Differential geometry

Geometry

Convex and discrete geometry

Global analysis, analysis on manifolds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Weak Minkowski spaces / Athanase Papadopoulos, Marc Troyanov -- From Funk to Hilbert geometry / Athanase Papadopoulos, Marc Troyanov -- Funk and Hilbert geometries from the Finslerian viewpoint / Marc Troyanov -- On the Hilbert geometry of convex polytopes / Constantin Vernicos -- The horofunction boundary and isometry group of the Hilbert geometry / Cormac Walsh -- Characterizations of hyperbolic geometry among Hilbert geometries / Ren Guo -- Around groups in Hilbert geometry / Ludovic Marquis -- The geodesic flow of Finsler and Hilbert geometries / Mickaël Crampon -- Dynamics of Hilbert nonexpansive maps / Anders Karlsson -- Birkhoff's version of Hilbert's metric and its applications in analysis / Bas Lemmens, Roger D. Nussbaum -- Convex real projective structures and Hilbert metrics / Inkang Kim, Athanase Papadopoulos -- Weil-Petersson Funk metric on Teichmüller space / Hideki Miyachi, Ken'ichi Ohshika, Sumio Yamada -- Funk and Hilbert geometries in spaces of constant curvature / Athanase Papadopoulos, Sumio Yamada -- On the origin of Hilbert geometry / Marc Troyanov -- Hilbert's fourth problem / Athanase Papadopoulos -- Open problems.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents surveys, written by experts in the field, on various classical and the modern aspects of Hilbert geometry. They are assuming several points of view: Finsler geometry, calculus of variations, projective geometry, dynamical systems, and others. Some fruitful relations between Hilbert geometry and other subjects in mathematics are emphasized, including Teichmüller spaces, convexity theory, Perron-Frobenius theory, representation theory, partial differential equations, coarse geometry, ergodic theory, algebraic groups, Coxeter groups, geometric group theory, Lie groups and discrete group actions.  The _Handbook_ is addressed to both students who want to learn the theory and researchers working in the area.