Warped products admitting a curvature bound

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2016.07.005zbMATH Open1352.53027OpenAlexW2963040810MaRDI QIDQ323657FDOQ323657

Authors Stephanie B. Alexander, Richard L. Bishop

Publication date 10 October 2016

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00380

zbMATH Keywords

warped productsAlexandrov spacesCAT(K) spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Abstract: This paper completes a fundamental construction in Alexandrov geometry. Previously we gave a new construction of metric spaces with curvature bounds either above or below, namely warped products with intrinsic metric space base and fiber, and with possibly vanishing warping functions -- thereby extending the classical cone and suspension constructions from interval base to arbitrary base, and furthermore encompassing gluing constructions. This paper proves the converse, namely, all conditions of the theorems are necessary. Note that in the cone construction, both the construction and its converse are widely used. We also show that our theorems for curvature bounded above and below, respectively, are dual. We give the first systematic development of basic properties of warped products of metric spaces with possibly vanishing warping functions, including new properties..

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