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Reshetnyak Majorisation and discrete upper curvature bounds for Lorentzian length spaces

Differential Geometry 2026-05-05 v2 Mathematical Physics Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We present an analogue to the Majorisation Theorem of Reshetnyak in the setting of Lorentzian length spaces with upper curvature bounds: given two future-directed timelike rectifiable curves α\alpha and β\beta with the same endpoints in a Lorentzian length space XX, there exists a convex region in L2(K)\mathbb{L}^2(K) bounded by two future-directed causal curves αˉ\bar \alpha and βˉ\bar \beta with the same endpoints and a 1-anti-Lipschitz map from that region into XX such that αˉ\bar \alpha and βˉ\bar \beta are respectively mapped τ\tau-length-preservingly onto α\alpha and β\beta. A special case of this theorem leads to an interesting characterisation of upper curvature bounds via four-point configurations which is truly suitable for a discrete setting.

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@article{arxiv.2509.05224,
  title  = {Reshetnyak Majorisation and discrete upper curvature bounds for Lorentzian length spaces},
  author = {Tobias Beran and Felix Rott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05224},
  year   = {2026}
}

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31 pages, 3 figures