Nonpositive Curvature and the Ptolemy Inequality

DOI10.1093/imrn/rnm100zbMath1135.53055arXiv0705.1042MaRDI QIDQ5439933

Thomas Foertsch, Alexander Lytchak, Viktor Schroeder

Publication date: 30 January 2008

Published in: International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1042

zbMATH Keywords

non-positive curvature; proper metric space; geodesic metric space; uniquely geodesic space; CAT(0)-space; Ptolemy inequality; Busemann convex; often convex metric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C70: Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.)

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