Flats in spaces with convex geodesic bicombings

DOI10.1515/AGMS-2016-0003zbMATH Open1341.53070arXiv1508.02745OpenAlexW2963096799MaRDI QIDQ283889FDOQ283889

Authors: Dominic Descombes, Urs Lang 

Publication date: 17 May 2016

Published in: Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In spaces of nonpositive curvature the existence of isometrically embedded flat (hyper)planes is often granted by apparently weaker conditions on large scales. We show that some such results remain valid for metric spaces with non-unique geodesic segments under suitable convexity assumptions on the distance function along distinguished geodesics. The discussion includes, among other things, the Flat Torus Theorem and Gromov's hyperbolicity criterion referring to embedded planes. This generalizes results of Bowditch for Busemann spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02745

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zbMATH Keywords

nonpositive curvatureflat strip theoremflat torus theoremgeodesic bicombingGromov hyperbolic space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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