Spaces with many affine functions

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08728-XMaRDI QIDQ3432789zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Lytchak, Petra Schwer

Publication date 18 April 2007

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511583

zbMATH Keywords

affine functionsgeodesic mappingsnorms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We describe all metric spaces that have sufficently many affine functions. As an application we obtain a metric characterization of linear-convex subsets of Banach spaces.

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