Manifolds of tripotents in JB*-triples.

We describe the affine connections, geodesics and symmetries of various Banach manifolds of tripotents in JB*-triples which include C*-algebras and Hilbert spaces where the nonzero tripotents are respectively the partial isometries and the extreme points of the closed unit ball.

(This paper has appeared in Math. Z. 233 (2000), 741-754.)


Cho-Ho Chu <maa01chc@gold.ac.uk>

J. M. Isidro <jmisidro@zmat.usc.es>