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The horofunction boundary of the Hilbert geometry

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Abstract

We investigate the horofunction boundary of the Hilbert geometry defined on an arbitrary finite-dimensional bounded convex domain D. We determine its set of Busemann points, which are those points that are the limits of "almost-geodesics". In addition, we show that any sequence of points converging to a point in the horofunction boundary also converges in the usual sense to a point in the Euclidean boundary of D. We prove that all horofunctions are Busemann points if and only if the set of extreme sets of the polar of D is closed in the Painlevé-Kuratowski topology.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)503-529
Number of pages27
JournalAdvances in Geometry
Volume8
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2008

Keywords

  • Busemann function
  • Hilbert geometry
  • Hilbert's projective metric
  • Horoball
  • Max-plus algebra
  • Metric boundary

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