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Metric spaces where geodesics are never unique

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posted on 2023-04-14, 12:29 authored by Amlan 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.

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Leverhulme Trust under grant RPG-2019-034

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  • Science

Department

  • Mathematical Sciences

Published in

The American Mathematical Monthly

Volume

130

Issue

8

Pages

747-754

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© The Mathematical Association of America

Publisher statement

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.

Acceptance date

2022-08-31

Publication date

2023-07-24

Copyright date

2023

ISSN

0002-9890

eISSN

1930-0972

Language

  • en

Depositor

Amlan Banaji. Deposit date: 12 April 2023

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