Abstract
In this paper, we define a gyrogeometric mean on the Einstein gyrovector space. It satisfies several properties one would expect for means. For example, it is permutation-invariant and left-translation invariant. It is already known that the Einstein gyrogroup is a gyrocommutative gyrogroup. We give an alternative proof which depends only on an elementary calculation.
1. Introduction
Einstein addition is a binary operation that stems from his velocity composition law of relativistic admissible velocities. Einstein addition is neither commutative nor associative. Ungar initiated the study of gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces [1] associated with the Einstein addition in the theory of special relativity. A gyrocommutative gyrogroup is a gyrogroup which has weak associativity and commutativity. It is a generalization of a commutative group.
Let be a real inner product space. For a positive real number s we denote the s-ball of , i.e.,
The Einstein addition on is a binary operation on given by the equation
where is the gamma factor
in , where · and are the inner product and the norm of respectively. By the definition of , for every pair by Theorem 3.46 and the identity (3.189) in [1].
In [1] (p. 88) Ungar described that “one can show by computer algebra that Einstein addition in the ball is a gyrocommutative gyrogroup operation, giving rise to the Einstein ball gyrogroup .” On the other hand, Suksumran and Wiboonton [2] gave a proof applying the theory of Clifford algebras, without using computer algebras. We give an elementary and direct proof in Section 6, which is lengthy but just by a simple calculation without applying any substantial theory of mathematics.
In the following up to Section 5 we assume just for simplicity. The Einstein scalar multiplication on is given by the equation
where ; and . By Theorem 6.84 in [1], is a gyrovector space, which is called an Einstein gyrovector space.
Ungar [1] (pp. 172–173) defined the gyromidpoint of two elements in a gyrovector space. For we have
Ungar also defined the gyrocentroid of three elements as
The gyromidpoint corresponds to the average of two velocities in the special theory of relativity. On the other hand the gyrocentroid does not satisfy a certain desirable property one would expected for means; by a simple calculation we have for and . In this paper, we propose an alternative definition of the mean of three or more elements, the gyrogeometric mean, and show that it has several properties one would expect for means. The gyrogeometric mean corresponding to the average of the velocities in the special relativity. It is symmetric in the sense that permutation-invariant by the definition of the gyrogeometric mean. It is translation invariant (Proposition 5). The main idea of the definitions come from the geometric mean for positive definite matrices by Bhatia and Holbrook [3] and Ando, Li and Mathias [4].
2. The Metric Space
We define the set which coincides with the open interval . admits the addition and the scalar multiplication given by the following:
where and . Please note that the triplet is a real one-dimensional space.
The gyrometric is defined by
where and . The gyrometric needs not be a metric. It satisfies the following [1] (p. 158).
Proposition 1.
- (1)
- For every pair , The equality holds if and only if .
- (2)
- for any .
- (3)
- The gyrotriangle inequality:holds for any in .
We define the metric on induced by the gyrometric d. Put the map by . For any and , the map f satisfies the following.
- (F1)
- (F2)
Let the map on be given by
for .
Lemma 1.
The inequality
holds for every pair .
Proof.
Recall the equations (3.177) and (3.178) [1] (pp. 88–89):
By we have
Since then we have
Next we calculate .
Thus, we have the desired inequalities and conclude the proof. □
Proposition 2.
is a complete metric space.
Proof.
We first prove that is a metric space. By (1) and (2) of Proposition 1, it is trivial that and for every . By (3) of Proposition 1 and the monotonicity of f, the inequality for every . By (F1) we have
As is complete, we have by Lemma 1 and the definition of that is complete. □
We recall the gyroline and the gyrosegment [1] (Definition 6.19). Let be elements of . The gyroline through and is defined by
A gyrosegment with endpoints and is denoted by
The point is called the gyro t-point on a gyroline or gyrosegment. We abbreviate by . Please note that for every pair .
Theorem 1.
For any we have
Proof.
To begin with the proof of the inequality (2), we show an equation related to the gyrometric and gamma factor. Recall the equations (3.197) and (6.266) [1] (pp. 93, 209):
Hence
holds. By a simple calculation, we have
Hence we have
and
We also have
where . Hence we have
Let . It is well defined by . We calculate the numerator of (8);
We conclude a proof of Theorem 1. □
By Theorem 1 and the monotonicity of , we have
By the triangle inequality, we have
Moreover, since the map is continuous, we infer that g is convex, i.e.,
Letting we have
3. The Gyroconvex Set and the Gyroconvex Hull in a Gyrovector Space
We define a gyroconvex set and a gyroconvex hull.
Definition 1.
Let A be a subset of . We say that A is gyroconvex if for any . Let X be a non-empty subset of .
We call the gyroconvex hull of X.
Please note that the gyroconvex hull of a non-empty set is gyroconvex.
Lemma 2.
Let . Then the gyrosegment is gyroconvex. The gyroconvex hull coincides with .
Proof.
Let be an arbitrary point in for . There exists such that
for . We may assume that . where . Then we have , . In fact, by the Equation (6.63) in [1] (p. 167) we have
Since , we have . Thus, for every pair and in . Thus, is gyroconvex. □
Let be a non-empty subset of . We define a sequence of a non-empty subset of by induction. Suppose that is defined. Put
Proposition 3.
Let be a non-empty subset of . Then
Proof.
We prove that is gyroconvex. Let . Since for every , there exists a positive integer with . Then by the definition of we have . Thus, is a gyroconvex set. As , we have .
We prove . For any , . Hence . Similarly, assuming that for any we have . So for arbitrary nonnegative integer n, ; . □
4. The Gyrogeometric Mean
Let . We define . First we prove the following.
Proposition 4.
Suppose that . If the inequality holds for a positive real number M, then the inequality holds for arbitrary points and .
Lemma 3.
Let be a non-empty set. Then
Proof.
First we prove . By Proposition 3, where . For any positive integer k let be arbitrary points in . Then there exist such that . Put then by Proposition 4.1 we have
whence
Thus, for arbitrary , . It follows that for any , we have
Therefore
The converse inequality is trivial, hence we have .
Next we prove . For any pair , there exist sequences and in such that converge to respectively. Letting for , we have . Thus, . The converse inequality is trivial, hence holds. □
Lemma 4.
Suppose that K is a gyroconvex subset of . Then the closure of K is gyroconvex.
Proof.
For any , there exist such that converge to respectively. We show converges to for arbitrary . By (11) we have
By , then . Thus, . Hence is gyroconvex. □
Let n be a positive integer. Let be the set of all subsets of whose number of elements is exactly n. We define, by induction, the sequence of the maps which satisfy the following two conditions () and ();
- ()
- for every ,
- ()
- for every pair and in .
First, put for . As by Lemma 2 we obtain that ; () holds. Let . Then by (10) we have
which is ().
Suppose now that the map which satisfies () and () is defined. We will define which satisfies () and (). Let . For a positive integer m we define which satisfies that by induction on m. For every , put
Please note that is well defined since and we have assumed that the map is defined. By the condition () we have that
for every . Put . Then and since for every . Suppose that such that is defined. For every , put
As in the same way as the above, is well defined for , and satisfies that . Hence, by induction, we have defined a sequence such that . Applying () for and , we infer that
Then by Lemma 3 we obtain
for every positive integer m. By Cantor’s intersection theorem there exists a unique with
As for every , we infer that for every . Put . Then the map is well defined, and ; satisfies the condition ().
Next we prove that the map satisfies the condition ();
where . Let m be a positive integer. We define and for every as in the same way as before. As () holds for , we have
By summing up the above inequalities with respect to we have
for every positive integer m. Thus, we have
Letting , since , we have
hence
So, the condition () holds for the map . We conclude that the map which satisfies the conditions () and () are defined by induction.
By applying the maps we define the gyrogeometric mean of n elements in .
Definition 2.
Let . We call that the gyrogeometric mean of Δ.
Due to the definition, the gyrogeometric mean of is . The gyrocentroid is defined by applying the internal division points on the usual lines which makes the inconvenience such as for . The gyrogeometric mean is defined by applying the gyrolines and it resolve the inconvenience.
5. Properties of the Gyrogeometric Mean
The gyrogeometric mean satisfies certain desirable properties one would expect for means in general. For example, the permutation invariance and the left-translation invariance would be expected properties. It is trivial that the gyrogeometric mean is permutation-invariant. We prove that the gyrogeometric mean is left-translation invariant.
Recall that is the set of all n-points subset of for a positive integer n.
Proposition 5.
Let and . Put . Then the following holds:
Proof.
We prove the equality (13) by induction on n. For , . By Theorem 6.37 in [1] (p. 175) we have
Assume that (13) holds for . Let where for . By the assumption we have
for every . Then for we have
We prove that as . By a simple calculation we have
as . Hence we have as . Thus, as for . We conclude that . □
For and in , . More generally, the gyrogeometric mean satisfies the following.
Proposition 6.
Let .
In the case of , it is proved by the following calculation.
Proposition 6 is proved by induction on n.
In Section 6 with appropriate operation is a gyrocommutative gyrogroup, which is also called the Einstein gyrogroup. The gyrogeometric mean is defined for similarly. If or such that is small enough, . So, in the case,
is hold. It is simply proved by induction.
6. Proof that Is a Gyrocommutative Gyrogroup
A magma is a non-empty set G with a binary operation ⊕. A magma is a gyrogroup if its binary operation ⊕ satisfies the following axioms (G1) through (G5):
- (G1)
- There exists a left identity in G such thatfor all .
- (G2)
- For each there exists a left inverse such that
- (G3)
- For any there exists a unique element such that the binary operation obeys the left gyroassociative law
- (G4)
- The map given by is an automorphism of the magma . It is called a gyroautomorphism. generated by is called a gyration.
- (G5)
- The gyroautomorphism generated by any satisfies the left loop property:
The gyrogroup is called gyrocommutative if the following (G6) holds for every pair
- (G6)
We prove that the Einstein gyrogroup is in fact a gyrocommutative gyrogroup only by simple calculations. Proof of (G1) and (G2) are simple and omitted.
We prove (G3). We prove that holds for all . First, we prove the left cancellation law which is given by the equation
for all . Put for any and put
Put . We have
We compute,
and
Hence we have
Next, we prove the following equation
It is known in [5] ((2.84), (2.85)) that the Equation (14) can be rewritten as
by applying computer algebra, where
We prove (15) without applying computer algebra. Put
Put also
Then is given by the following:
We will calculate each coefficient of of the equation above.
We prove that the coefficient of is 1, i.e., is 1. The equation holds for all . Applying this equation, we have
Multiplying from the right-hand side of the last equation, and applying the gamma factor, we have
Dividing the common denominator and multiplying to , where , we have
We compute of the Equation (16).
Applying
for underline items, we infer that
So, we have
hence we have .
Next, we prove that coefficient of is .
We have . Then we compute the coefficient of applying the equation .
By ,
Finally, we prove that the coefficient of is .
Using (16) and , then we have
Hence holds. By applying the left cancellation law for the Equation (14), we obtain (G3).
We prove (G4). We prove that is automorphism for every pair . To prove (G4), we first show the gyration preserves, the inner product of and the norm. So, we compute
for all . By applying the Equation (15), we have
and
respectively, where
The terms and are defined in the similar way an and respectively. Then we have
We show that terms other than of the right-hand side of the Equation (18) equal to zero.
Then we compute each terms of the sum
.
By this equation is rewritten in the following.
Then we obtain
Calculating in a way similar to the calculation of , we have
Hence, comparing the Equations (19) with (22) we have
We conclude that .
To prove that is a homomorphism for all , we show
for all . Applying (15) we have
Put
By a simple calculation we infer that
We have
Then the right-hand side of the Equation (24) is rewritten as the following equation.
Since preserves the inner product and the norm of , we have
so that
and
Hence . We conclude that is a homomorphism.
We observe that is bijective for every pair of . To prove this, we compute for every . We denote
where . Then applying (15), we have
We compute
and
So, we have
We show that the coefficients of and vanish. We compute the coefficient of .
We also have
Applying the gamma identity, we have the following.
So, the coefficient of vanishes.
We compute the coefficient of .
We also have
So, the coefficient of vanishes. Thus, holds for every . Changing and , also holds for every . We conclude that is bijective. Thus, is an automorphism; a proof of (G4) is complete.
To prove (G5) we first observe for every pair . Let . Applying (15) we have that
where
We prove that for every . We have
Then is computed as in the following.
can be computed as in the following.
Hence .
Next, we compute the coefficient of . can be computed as in the following.
The Equation (25) is rewritten by . Then
Hence . We conclude that for all , so (G5) holds.
We conclude that is a gyrogroup. Finally, we prove that it is gyrocommutative.
We prove (G6). We prove that for all . Gyroautomorphic inverse property defined by Ungar in [1] (Definition 3.1, p. 51) is given by the equation
where are arbitrary elements in . According to Theorem 3.2 in [1] (p. 51), is gyrocommutative if and only if it has the gyroautomorphic inverse property. So, we observe the gyroautomorphic inverse property:
Hence is gyrocommutative.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization of gyrogeometric mean, T.H. The proof that the Einstein gyrogroup is a gyrogroup is by T.H. Except these all authors contributed equally to this article. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: 19K03536.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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