Metric geometry

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Authors Yu. Burago, David Shoenthal

Publication date 6 September 2004

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov spacescomparison theoremscovariant derivativecurvatureglobal geometryGromov-Hausdorff convergenceGromov-Hausdorff distancelength spaceslength structurespinching Lipschitz convergenceRiemannian metricssectional curvature size

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to differential geometry (53-01) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Review text

This article is the result of four lectures given at the EMS summer school in Edinburgh. The first lecture introduces the first notions and definitions of length spaces. It starts with length structures, i.e. instead of introducing a metric first and then defining the length through the metric, the authors start with the notion of length of a path and proceed to build a distance function. Many examples of length spaces are explained before introducing the metric associated with the length structure. The first lesson ends with the familiar geometric concepts of shortest paths, geodesics and angles. The second lesson consists of a short introduction to Riemannian geometry, including the usual properties of geodesics, exponential map, normal coordinates, covariant derivative and curvature. The third lecture is dedicated to comparison theorems, Alexandrov spaces and also special issues on positive and negative sectional curvature. In the fourth and last lecture, the authors deal with different types of convergence in ``large scale geometry as Lipschitz and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. The very last section deals with spaces lying within finite Gromov-Hausdorff distance from another. The amount of information within these four lectures is considerable. Starting from basic geometric notions their properties are given with proofs, including many interesting examples. Also, the introductions to each section are remarkable. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1027.00019].

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