Metric normal and distance function in the Heisenberg group

2007 ◽  
Vol 256 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Arcozzi ◽  
Fausto Ferrari
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-52
Author(s):  
Nate Fisher ◽  
Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo

Abstract We give a complete analytic and geometric description of the horofunction boundary for polygonal sub-Finsler metrics, that is, those that arise as asymptotic cones of word metrics, on the Heisenberg group. We develop theory for the more general case of horofunction boundaries in homogeneous groups by connecting horofunctions to Pansu derivatives of the distance function.


Author(s):  
Bernhard M¨uhlherr ◽  
Holger P. Petersson ◽  
Richard M. Weiss

This chapter considers the notion of parallel residues in a building. It begins with the assumption that Δ‎ is a building of type Π‎, which is arbitrary except in a few places where it is explicitly assumed to be spherical. Δ‎ is not assumed to be thick. The chapter then elaborates on a hypothesis which states that S is the vertex set of Π‎, (W, S) is the corresponding Coxeter system, d is the W-distance function on the set of ordered pairs of chambers of Δ‎, and ℓ is the length function on (W, S). It also presents a notation in which the type of a residue R is denoted by Typ(R) and concludes with the condition that residues R and T of a building will be called parallel if R = projR(T) and T = projT(R).


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 200-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C.G. Mennucci

Abstract In this paper we discuss asymmetric length structures and asymmetric metric spaces. A length structure induces a (semi)distance function; by using the total variation formula, a (semi)distance function induces a length. In the first part we identify a topology in the set of paths that best describes when the above operations are idempotent. As a typical application, we consider the length of paths defined by a Finslerian functional in Calculus of Variations. In the second part we generalize the setting of General metric spaces of Busemann, and discuss the newly found aspects of the theory: we identify three interesting classes of paths, and compare them; we note that a geodesic segment (as defined by Busemann) is not necessarily continuous in our setting; hence we present three different notions of intrinsic metric space.


Author(s):  
Nguyen Minh Chuong ◽  
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Dao Van Duong ◽  
Nguyen Duc Duyet ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 242 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Klein ◽  
Andrew Nicas
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2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Sufyan A. Whaib ◽  
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