Metric spaces, convexity and nonpositive curvature

DOI10.4171/132zbMath1296.53007MaRDI QIDQ5891388

Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date: 22 January 2014

Published in: IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4171/132

zbMATH Keywords

normed space; convex function; isometry; metric space; non-positive curvature; geodesic; Busemann function; path; length; horosphere; ray; visual boundary; co-ray; convex space; asymptotic rays; Busemann space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

54E35: Metric spaces, metrizability

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions

51K05: General theory of distance geometry

53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry

52A07: Convex sets in topological vector spaces (aspects of convex geometry)

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

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