A notion of nonpositive curvature for general metric spaces

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2014.11.002MaRDI QIDQ2255141zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

Publication date 6 February 2015

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

comparison geometrygeodesic spaceKirszbraun's theoremnonpositive curvature

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)

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.

Review text

The authors introduce a new definition of nonpositive curvature in metric spaces, based on comparing triangles in the metric space in question with triangles in the Euclidean plane. The novelty is that the metric space does not necessarily admit geodesics. A variant of the definition can be applied to discrete metric spaces.

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