Metric Spaces where Geodesics are Never Unique

DOI10.1080/00029890.2023.2231332MaRDI QIDQ6058318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amlan Banaji

Publication date 1 November 2023

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00598

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsmetric spacesmultigeodesic spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonseparable Banach spaces (46B26) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Higher-dimensional local connectedness (54F35)

Abstract: This article concerns a class of metric spaces, which we call multigeodesic spaces, where between any two distinct points there exist multiple distinct minimising geodesics. We provide a simple characterisation of multigeodesic normed spaces and deduce that $(C([0,1]),||cdot|{|}_1)$ is an example of such a space, but that finite-dimensional normed spaces are not. We also investigate what additional features are possible in arbitrary metric spaces which are multigeodesic.

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