Self-contracted curves have finite length

Abstract: A curve

h e t a

:

I o E

in a metric space

E

equipped with the distance

d

, where

I s u b s e t R

is a (possibly unbounded) interval, is called self-contracted, if for any triple of instances of time

{t_{i}}_{i = 1}^{3} s u b s e t I

with

t_{1} l e q t_{2} l e q t_{3}

one has

d (h e t a (t_{3}), h e t a (t_{2})) l e q d (h e t a (t_{3}), h e t a (t_{1}))

. We prove that if

E

is a finite-dimensional normed space with an arbitrary norm, the trace of

h e t a

is bounded, then

h e t a

has finite length, i.e. is rectifiable, thus answering positively the question raised in~cite{Lemenant16sc-rectif}.

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