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Metric Spaces where Geodesics are Never Unique

Metric Geometry 2025-05-07 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

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]),1)(C([0,1]),||\cdot||_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.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00598,
  title  = {Metric Spaces where Geodesics are Never Unique},
  author = {Amlan Banaji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00598},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures. This article has been accepted for publication in the American Mathematical Monthly

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