Closed subsets of a CAT(0) 2-complex are intrinsically CAT(0)

DOI10.2140/AGT.2021.21.1723MaRDI QIDQ1983577zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Russell Ricks

Publication date 10 September 2021

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00048

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)complexsubspaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Synthetic differential geometry (51K10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

Abstract: Let k be at most 0, and let X be a locally-finite CAT(k) polyhedral 2-complex X, each face with constant curvature k. Let E be a closed, rectifiably-connected subset of X with trivial first singular homology. We show that E, under the induced path metric, is a complete CAT(k) space.

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