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On the Distributional Hessian of the Distance Function

Differential Geometry 2016-01-20 v3 Analysis of PDEs Functional Analysis

Abstract

We describe the precise structure of the distributional Hessian of the distance function from a point of a Riemannian manifold. In doing this we also discuss some geometrical properties of the cutlocus of a point and we compare some different weak notions of Hessian and Laplacian.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1421,
  title  = {On the Distributional Hessian of the Distance Function},
  author = {Carlo Mantegazza and Giovanni Mascellani and Gennady Uraltsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1421},
  year   = {2016}
}