On generalized metrics of Vandermonde type
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| author | Beyn, Wolf-Jürgen |
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| contents | In a series of papers in the 1960's, S. Gähler defined and investigated so-called m-metric spaces and their topological properties. An m-metric assigns to any tuple of m+1 elements a real value (more generally an element in a partially odered set) which satisfies the generalized metric axioms of semidefiniteness, symmetry, and simplex inequality. In this contribution we consider a new type of generalized metric which is based on the Vandermonde determinant. We present some remarkable geometric consequences of the corresponding simplex inequality in the complex plane. Then we show that the Vandermonde principle of construction extends to linear spaces of arbitrary dimension by using symmetric multilinear maps of degree m(m + 1)/2. In particular, we analyze when this generalized metrics has the stronger property of definiteness. Finally, an application is provided to the m-metric of point sets when driven by the same linear ordinary differential equation. |
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| spellingShingle | On generalized metrics of Vandermonde type Beyn, Wolf-Jürgen Metric Geometry 51F99, 15A99 In a series of papers in the 1960's, S. Gähler defined and investigated so-called m-metric spaces and their topological properties. An m-metric assigns to any tuple of m+1 elements a real value (more generally an element in a partially odered set) which satisfies the generalized metric axioms of semidefiniteness, symmetry, and simplex inequality. In this contribution we consider a new type of generalized metric which is based on the Vandermonde determinant. We present some remarkable geometric consequences of the corresponding simplex inequality in the complex plane. Then we show that the Vandermonde principle of construction extends to linear spaces of arbitrary dimension by using symmetric multilinear maps of degree m(m + 1)/2. In particular, we analyze when this generalized metrics has the stronger property of definiteness. Finally, an application is provided to the m-metric of point sets when driven by the same linear ordinary differential equation. |
| title | On generalized metrics of Vandermonde type |
| topic | Metric Geometry 51F99, 15A99 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01342 |