Affine functions on CAT ( )-spaces

DOI10.1007/S00209-006-0020-4zbMATH Open1197.53044arXivmath/0410421OpenAlexW1984768144MaRDI QIDQ970196FDOQ970196

Authors: Alexander Lytchak, Viktor Schroeder 

Publication date: 10 May 2010

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study CAT(kappa) spaces X admitting affine functions. We show that there exists a canonical isometric embedding X -> Y x H where H is a Hilbert space, such that every affine function f: X -> R factors as f'o p, where p is the projection to H and f' is an affine function on H.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410421

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacegeodesicmetric spaceaffine functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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