Shell partition and metric semispaces: Minkowski norms, root scalar products, distances and cosines of arbitrary order

Abstract

Vector semispaces are studied from a realistic way with the intention to define a natural metric, adapted to their peculiar structure, which reside on the essential positive definiteness of their elements. From this point of view, Minkowski norms allow classifying semispaces in shells, that is: subsets where all the vector elements possess the same norm values. Shell structure appears to be a possible disjoint partition of any semispace and so shells become equivalence classes Then, the unit shell appears to be the core of the semispace homothetic construction as well as the origin of the semispace metrics. Minkowski or root scalar products permit to connect two or more semispace elements and conduct towards generalized definitions of Pth order root distances and cosines. Finally, the unit shell of a given semispace, in company of both Boolean tagged sets, inward matrix products and with the aid of the matrix signatures as well, it is seen as the seed to construct any arbitrary element of the semispace connected vector space. Finite and infinite dimensional vector spaces application examples are provided along the work discussion.