Curvature bounded below: a definition a la Berg-Nikolaev

DOI10.3934/ERA.2010.17.122MaRDI QIDQ600832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nina Lebedeva, Anton Petrunin

Publication date 2 November 2010

Published in Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3318

zbMATH Keywords

Aleksandrov space of non-negative curvaturemetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Synthetic differential geometry (51K10) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

Abstract: We give a new characterization of spaces with nonnegative curvature in the sense of Alexandrov.

Review text

The main result of the paper states that a complete metric space \(M\) with intrinsic metric \(\rho \) is an Aleksandrov space of curvature \(\geq 0\) if and only if, for every quadruple of points \(\left\{ p,x,y,z\right\} \subseteq M\), the following inequality holds: \[ \rho ^{2}\left( p,x\right) +\rho ^{2}\left( p,y\right) +\rho ^{2}\left( p,z\right) \geq \frac{\rho ^{2}\left( x,y\right) +\rho ^{2}\left( y,z\right) +\rho ^{2}\left( z,x\right) }{3}. \]

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