Seminar at SMU Delhi
December 3, 2013 (Tuesday) ,
11:30 AM at Webinar
Speaker:
Athanase Papadopoulos,
Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS.
Title:
On the Funk and the Hilbert metrics.
Abstract of Talk
The Funk metric is an asymmetric metric on convex sets of the plane.
The Hilbert metric is a symmetrization of the Funk metric. The study
of the Funk and the Hilbert metrics has several facets, involving
convexity theory, projective geometry, metric geometry and Finsler
geometry. I will give several examples and show why their study is
interesting.