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 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.
Cite
@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