posted on 2023-04-14, 12:29authored byAmlan Banaji
This article concerns a class of metric spaces, which we call multigeodesic spaces, where between any two distinct points there exist multiple distinct minimising geodesics. We provide a simple characterisation of multigeodesic normed spaces and deduce that (C([0,1]), ǀǀ٠ǀǀ1) 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.
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in The American Mathematical Monthly. Amlan Banaji (2023) Metric Spaces where Geodesics are Never Unique, The American Mathematical Monthly, 130:8, 747-754, DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2023.2231332. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.