Pretangent spaces with nonpositive and nonnegative Aleksandrov curvature

zbMATH Open1310.54013arXiv1301.4456MaRDI QIDQ486907FDOQ486907

Sumit K. Garg, Yong-Cai Geng

Publication date: 16 January 2015

Published in: Matematychni Studiï (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We find conditions under which the pretangent spaces to general metric spaces have the nonpositive Aleksandrov curvature or nonnegative one. The infinitesimal structure of general metric cpaces with Busemann convex pretangent spaces is also described.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4456

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zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimal geometry of metric spacespretangent spaceAleksandrov curvatureBusemann convexityCAT(0)-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

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