Differentiable distance spaces

DOI10.1007/S10474-015-0577-7MaRDI QIDQ1701313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dávid Cs. Kertész, Lajos Tamássy

Publication date 22 February 2018

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06945

zbMATH Keywords

Finsler spacedistance space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53B40) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) General theory of distance geometry (51K05) Distance geometry (51K99)

Abstract: The distance function $varrho(p,q)$ (or $d(p,q)$) of a distance space (general metric space) is not differentiable in general. We investigate such distance spaces over $mathbb{R}^n$, whose distance functions are differentiable like in case of Finsler spaces. These spaces have several good properties, yet they are no Finsler spaces (which are special distance spaces). They are situated between general metric spaces (distance spaces) and Finsler spaces. We will investigate such curves of differentiable distance spaces, which possess the same properties as geodesics do in Finsler spaces. So these curves can be considered as forerunners of Finsler geodesics. They are in greater plenitude than Finsler geodesics, but they become geodesics in a Finsler space. We show some properties of these curves, as well as some relations between differentiable distance spaces and Finsler spaces. We arrive to these curves and to our results by using distance spheres, and using no variational calculus. We often apply direct geometric considerations.

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