Short retractions of CAT(1) spaces

DOI10.1090/PROC/15268zbMATH Open1458.53044arXiv2002.09762OpenAlexW3066056260MaRDI QIDQ5150197FDOQ5150197

Authors: Alexander Lytchak, Anton Petrunin 

Publication date: 10 February 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct short retractions of a CAT(1) space to its small convex subsets. This construction provides an alternative geometric description of an analytic tool introduced by Wilfrid Kendall. Our construction uses a tractrix flow which can be defined as a gradient flow for a family of functions of certain type. In an appendix we prove a general existence result for gradient flows of time-dependent locally Lipschitz semiconcave functions, which is of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09762

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zbMATH Keywords

Lipschitz semiconcave functionstractrix flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

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