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On the continuity of geodesically convex functions on Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2026-01-06 v2

Abstract

In this short note, we prove that all geodesically convex functions defined on a Riemannian manifold are continuous in the interior of their domain. This is a folklore result, but to the best of our knowledge, there is only one available proof, which is largely cited. However, it contains a significant gap, which we fill here. We also discuss extensions of this result beyond the Riemannian setting.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05621,
  title  = {On the continuity of geodesically convex functions on Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Victor-Emmanuel Brunel and Pierre Pansu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05621},
  year   = {2026}
}