Nonpositive Curvature and the Ptolemy Inequality

DOI10.1093/imrn/rnm100zbMath1135.53055arXiv0705.1042OpenAlexW2010539125MaRDI QIDQ5439933

Thomas Foertsch, Alexander Lytchak, Viktor Schroeder

Publication date: 30 January 2008

Published in: International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1042

zbMATH Keywords

non-positive curvature proper metric space geodesic metric space uniquely geodesic space CAT(0)-space Ptolemy inequality Busemann convex often convex metric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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