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Hyperbolic geometry of shapes of convex bodies

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We use the intrinsic area to define a distance on the space of homothety classes of convex bodies in the n-dimensional Euclidean space, which makes it isometric to a convex subset of the infinite dimensional hyperbolic space. The ambient Lorentzian structure is an extension of the intrinsic area form of convex bodies, and Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality is interpreted as the Lorentzian reversed Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. We deduce that the space of similarity classes of convex bodies has a proper geodesic distance with curvature bounded from below by 1 (in the sense of Alexandrov). In dimension 3, this space is homeomorphic to the space of distances with non-negative curvature on the 2-sphere, and this latter space contains the space of flat metrics on the 2-sphere considered by W. P. Thurston. Both Thurston's and the area distances rely on the area form. So the latter may be considered as a generalization of the "real part" of Thurston's construction.
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hal-03793186 , version 1 (30-09-2022)

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François Fillastre, Clément Debin. Hyperbolic geometry of shapes of convex bodies. Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 2022, 16, pp.115 - 140. ⟨10.4171/ggd/642⟩. ⟨hal-03793186⟩
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