Short retractions of CAT(1) spaces

DOI10.1090/PROC/15268MaRDI QIDQ5150197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Lytchak, Anton Petrunin

Publication date 10 February 2021

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

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

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)

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.

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