Tangent metric spaces to starlike sets on the plane (Q2843776)

A subset \(S\) of a real linear topological space is called starlike if there exists a point \(a \in S\) such that the line segment connecting \(a\) and \(z\) is contained in \(S\) for all \(z \in S\). In this case the point \(a\) is called the center of the starlike set \(S\). The authors prove that for every starlike set \(A \subset \mathbb{C}\) with the center \(a\) all tangent spaces to \(A\) at the point \(a\) are isometric to the smallest closed cone containing \(A\) with the common vertex \(a\). In the paper a partial inverse result to this one is obtained. Some properties of the tangent spaces to \(\mathbb{R}^+\), \(\mathbb{R}\) and \( \mathbb{C}\) with the Euclidean metric are established.