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By P. M. Gruber, J. M. Wills, Arjen Sevenster

One goal of this guide is to survey convex geometry, its many ramifications and its relatives with different components of arithmetic. As such it may be a useful gizmo for the specialist. A moment goal is to provide a high-level advent to such a lot branches of convexity and its purposes, exhibiting the main principles, equipment and effects. This element may still make it a resource of thought for destiny researchers in convex geometry. The guide might be priceless for mathematicians operating in different components, in addition to for econometrists, machine scientists, crystallographers, physicists and engineers who're trying to find geometric instruments for his or her personal paintings. specifically, mathematicians focusing on optimization, useful research, quantity conception, chance thought, the calculus of adaptations and all branches of geometry should still make the most of this instruction manual.

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Given m points a1 , . . , am in a Euclidean space, the function m x − aj 2 j=1 has a unique minimum at a¯ = 1 (a1 + · · · + am ), m 2 The Riemannian Mean of Positive Matrices 43 the arithmetic mean of a1 , . . , am . This is the “Euclidean barycentre” of these points. When m = 3, the point a¯ is the point where the three medians of the triangle with vertices a1 , a2 , a3 intersect. This is also the point that lies in the intersection of the nested sequence of triangles { k } obtained by the procedure outlined at the end of Sect.

In F. Nielsen and R. 1007/978-3-642-30232-9_2, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 35 36 R. Bhatia (v) m is continuous. Other requirements may be imposed, if needed, in a particular context. 1) , 2 2 respectively. 2) 0 much used in heat flow problems; and the binomial means defined as B p (a, b) = ap + bp 2 1/ p , −∞ < p < ∞. 6) p→0 p→∞ p→−∞ are also means. In various contexts we wish to have a notion of a mean of two positive definite (positive, for short) matrices. Several interesting problems arise.

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