A notion of nonpositive curvature for general metric spaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2014.11.002zbMATH Open1322.53040arXiv1404.0995OpenAlexW2069031728WikidataQ115356109 ScholiaQ115356109MaRDI QIDQ2255141FDOQ2255141

Martin Kell, Bobo Hua, Armin Schikorra, Miroslav Bačák, Jürgen Jost

Publication date: 6 February 2015

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new definition of nonpositive curvature in metric spaces and study its relationship to the existing notions of nonpositive curvature in comparison geometry. The main feature of our definition is that it applies to all metric spaces and does not rely on geodesics. Moreover, a scaled and a relaxed version of our definition are appropriate in discrete metric spaces, and are believed to be of interest in geometric data analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0995

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesic spacenonpositive curvaturecomparison geometryKirszbraun's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

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