A known general program, designed to endow the quotient space UA/UB of the unitary groups UA, UB of the C∗ algebras B⊂A with an invariant Finsler metric, is applied to obtain a metric for the space I(H) of partial isometries ...

In this paper an extended Corach-Porta-Recht decomposition theorem for Finsler symmetric spaces of semi-negative curvature in the context of reductive structures is proven. This decomposition theorem is applied to give a ...

We define a Larotonda space as a quotient space P = UA/UB of the unitary groups of C ∗ -algebras 1 ∈ B ⊂ A with a faithful unital conditional expectation Φ : A → B. In particular, B is complemented in A, a fact which implies ...

We establish geometric properties of Stiefel and Grassmann manifolds which arise in relation to Slater type variational spaces in many-particle Hartree-Fock theory and beyond. In particular, we prove that they are analytic ...