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  Volume 5, Issue 3, Article 54
 
A Metric Inequality for the Thompson and Hilbert Geometries

    Authors: Roger D. Nussbaum, Cormac Walsh,  
    Keywords: Hilbert geometry, Thompson's part metric, Cone metric, Non-positive curvature, Finsler space.  
    Date Received: 25/09/03  
    Date Accepted: 02/04/04  
    Subject Codes:

53C60

 
    Editors: Jonathan Borwein,  
 
    Abstract:

There are two natural metrics defined on an arbitrary convex cone: Thompson's part metric and Hilbert's projective metric. For both, we establish an inequality giving information about how far the metric is from being non-positively curved.

         
       
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