Metric spaces where geodesics are never unique

Amlan Banaji

doi:10.1080/00029890.2023.2231332

Metric spaces where geodesics are never unique

Amlan Banaji^*

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Pure Mathematics

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Abstract

This article concerns a class of metric spaces, which we call multigeodesic spaces, where between any two distinct points there exist multiple distinct minimizing geodesics. We provide a simple characterization of multigeodesic normed spaces and deduce that (C([0,1]),||⋅||₁) is an example of such a space, but that finite-dimensional normed spaces are not. We also investigate what additional features are possible in arbitrary metric spaces which are multigeodesic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	747-754
Number of pages	8
Journal	The American Mathematical Monthly
Volume	130
Issue number	8
Early online date	24 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2023.2231332
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2023

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Geodesics
Multigeodesic spaces

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