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Aurélien Bosché

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arXiv2012

Symmetric cones, the Hilbert and Thompson metrics

Symmetric cones can be endowed with at least two interesting non Riemannian metrics: the Hilbert and the Thompson metrics. It is trivial that the linear maps preserving the cone are isometries for those two metrics. Oddly enough those are not the only isometries in general. We give here a full description of the isometry groups for both the Hilbert and the Thompson metrics using essentially the theory of euclidean Jordan algebras. Those results were already proved for the symmetric cone of complexe positive hermitian matrices by L. Moln{á}r. In this paper however we do not make any assumption on the symmetric cone under scrutiny (it could be reducible and contain exceptional factors).

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arXiv2011

Tits compact CAT(0) spaces

We investigate CAT(0) metric spaces whose associated Tits boundary is compact. Prominent examples of such spaces are of course the euclidean ones. However there exist non trivial geodesically complete CAT(0) spaces with compact Tits boundary that are far from being flat. We show that if the isometry group of such a space acts cocompactly, then the space is "as flat as possible", i.e. the boundary minimal subspace must be flat. Our result relies on the existence of hyperbolic isometries, which is a problem itself. We hence add the proof of the following existence proposition: a cocompact CAT(0) space either admits a hyperbolic isometry or a convex embedded flat plane.

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