Unit Balls, Lorentz Boosts, and Hyperbolic Geometry
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2013
Abstract
The bounded symmetric spaces naturally associated with the Poincaré and Beltrami-Klein models of hyperbolic geometry on the open unit ball B in ℝn and with the automorphism group of biholomorphic maps on the open ball in ℂn give rise by a standard construction to specialized loop structures (nonassociative groups), which we use to define canonical metrics, called rapidity metrics. We show that this rapidity metric agrees with the classical Poincaré metric resp. the Cayley-Klein metric resp. the Bergman metric. We introduce the Lorentz boost of vectors in B, which turns out to be a loop isomorphism. It induces a similarity of metrics between the rapidity metric of the Einstein or Möbius loop and the trace metric on positive definite matrices restricted to the Lorentz boosts. © 2012 Springer Basel AG.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Results in Mathematics
First Page
1225
Last Page
1242
Recommended Citation
Kim, S., & Lawson, J. (2013). Unit Balls, Lorentz Boosts, and Hyperbolic Geometry. Results in Mathematics, 63 (3-4), 1225-1242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-012-0265-7
