[:is]Math colloquium
Fyrirlesari: Ragnar Sigurðsson, University of Iceland
Titill: Norms on complexifications of real vector spaces.
Staðsetning: VRII-258
Tími: Fimmtudagur 6.febrúar kl. 10:50
Ágrip:
The subject of this lecture is of general interest and it only requires knowledge of elementary linear algebra.
The complexification V_C of a real vector space
V is the smallest complex vector space which contains V
as a real subspace. If V is a normed space, then it is
of interest to know how norms may extend from V to V_C.
I will look at a real normed space V and give formulas
for the smallest and largest extension of a general norm
on V to a norm on V_C. These formulas are not explicit
so it is of interest to find explicit formulas in particular
examples. This is possible for extentions of norms induced
by inner products. The Lie norm is the largest
extension of the Euclidean norm on R^n to a complex norm
on C^n.
In complex analysis we deal a lot with plurisubharmonic
functions and an important source for examples are
functions of the form log||f||, where f is a holomorphic
map from a complex manifold into C^n and ||.|| is a norm
on C^n. In his thesis, Auðunn Skúta Snæbjarnarson, studied
the Lie norm on C^n and calculated interesting formulas for
the so called Monge-Ampere measure of log||f||, which is
indeed not an easy task.[:en]
Math colloquium
Speaker: Ragnar Sigurðsson, University of Iceland
Title: Norms on complexifications of real vector spaces.
Room: VRII-258
Time: Thursday February 6th, 10:50 hrs.
Abstract:
The subject of this lecture is of general interest and it only requires knowledge of elementary linear algebra.
The complexification V_C of a real vector space
V is the smallest complex vector space which contains V
as a real subspace. If V is a normed space, then it is
of interest to know how norms may extend from V to V_C.
I will look at a real normed space V and give formulas
for the smallest and largest extension of a general norm
on V to a norm on V_C. These formulas are not explicit
so it is of interest to find explicit formulas in particular
examples. This is possible for extentions of norms induced
by inner products. The Lie norm is the largest
extension of the Euclidean norm on R^n to a complex norm
on C^n.
In complex analysis we deal a lot with plurisubharmonic
functions and an important source for examples are
functions of the form log||f||, where f is a holomorphic
map from a complex manifold into C^n and ||.|| is a norm
on C^n. In his thesis, Auðunn Skúta Snæbjarnarson, studied
the Lie norm on C^n and calculated interesting formulas for
the so called Monge-Ampere measure of log||f||, which is
indeed not an easy task.[:en]