Convexity, critical points, and connectivity radius

DOI10.1090/PROC/14892MaRDI QIDQ5212433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mikhail G. Katz

Publication date 29 January 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02432

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointconvex setsMorse theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (n) dimensions (including convex hypersurfaces) (52A20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We study the level sets of the distance function from a boundary point of a convex set in Euclidean space. We provide a lower bound for the range of connectivity of the level sets, in terms of the critical points of the distance function in the sense of Grove-Shiohama-Gromov-Cheeger.

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