On the contraction properties of a pseudo-Hilbert projective metric

Abstract

In this note, we define a bounded variant on the Hilbert projective metric on an infinite dimensional space $E$ and study the contraction properties of the projective maps associated with positive linear operators on $E$. More precisely, we prove that any positive linear operator acts projectively as a $1$-Lipschitz map relatively to this distance. We also show that for a positive linear operator, strict projective contraction is equivalent to a property called uniform positivity.