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 and with the same endpoints in a Lorentzian length space , there exists a convex region in bounded by two future-directed causal curves and with the same endpoints and a 1-anti-Lipschitz map from that region into such that and are respectively mapped -length-preservingly onto and . 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