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It is hereby established that, in Euclidean spaces of finite dimension, bounded self-contracted curves have finite length. This extends the main result of Daniilidis, Ley, and Sabourau (J. Math. Pures Appl. 2010) concerning continuous…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Aris Daniilidis , Guy David , Estibalitz Durand-Cartagena , Antoine Lemenant

We prove that any self-contracted curve in R 2 endowed with a C 2 and strictly convex norm, has finite length. The proof follows from the study of the curve bisector of two points in R 2 for a general norm together with an adaptation of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Antoine Lemenant

Self-contractedness (or self-expandedness, depending on the orientation) is hereby extended in two natural ways giving rise, for any $\lambda\in\lbrack-1,1)$, to the metric notion of $\lambda $-curve and the (weaker) geometric notion of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Aris Daniilidis , Robert Deville , Estibalitz Durand Cartagena

We investigate self-contracted curves, arising as (discrete or continuous time) gradient curves of quasi-convex functions, and their rectifiability (finiteness of the lengths) in Euclidean spaces, Hadamard manifolds and CAT(0)-spaces. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Shin-ichi Ohta

We show that bounded self-contracted curves are rectifiable in metric spaces with weak lower curvature bound in a sense we introduce in this article. This class of spaces is wide and includes, for example, finite-dimensional Alexandrov…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Nina Lebedeva , Shin-ichi Ohta , Vladimir Zolotov

We hereby introduce and study the notion of self-contracted curves, which encompasses orbits of gradient systems of convex and quasiconvex functions. Our main result shows that bounded self-contracted planar curves have a finite length. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-09-14 Aris Daniilidis , Olivier Ley , Stéphane Sabourau

We study metric spaces with bounded rough angles. E. Le Donne, T. Rajala and E. Walsberg implicitly used this notion to show that infinite snowflakes can not be isometrically embedded into finite dimensional Banach spaces. We show that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Vladimir Zolotov

A contractive condition is addressed for extended 2-cyclic self-mappings on the union of a finite number of subsets of a metric space which are allowed to have a finite number of successive images in the same subsets of its domain. It is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-18 M. De La Sen

In this paper we prove that any $C^{1,\alpha}$ curve in $\mathbb{R}^n$, with $\alpha \in (\frac{1}{2},1]$, is the solution of the gradient flow equation for some $C^1$ convex function $f$, if and only if it is strongly self-contracted.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Antoine Lemenant , Estibalitz Durand Cartagena

In this article, we study rectifying curves in arbitrary dimensional Euclidean space. A curve is said to be a rectifying curve if, in all points of the curve, the orthogonal complement of its normal vector contains a fixed point. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Stijn Cambie , Wendy Goemans , Iris Van den Bussche

It is proved that a parameterized curve in a metric space $X$ is absolutely continuous if and only if its composition with any Lipschitz function on $X$ is absolutely continuous.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-16 V. I. Bakhtin

In a recent paper, Cs\"ornyei and Wilson prove that curves in Euclidean space of $\sigma$-finite length have tangents on a set of positive $\mathscr{H}^{1}$-measure. They also show that a higher dimensional analogue of this result is not…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Jonas Azzam

Suppose that $M$ is a $2$-dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold, and let $\gamma$ be a simple closed curve on $M$. Let $m \gamma$ denote the curve formed by tracing $\gamma$ $m$ times. We prove that if $m \gamma$ is contractible through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Gregory R. Chambers , Yevgeny Liokumovich

This paper discusses a more general contractive condition for a class of extended cyclic self-mappings on the union of a finite number of subsets of a metric space which are allowed to have a finite number of successive images in the same…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-06 M. De la Sen

We exhibit a polynomial time computable plane curve GAMMA that has finite length, does not intersect itself, and is smooth except at one endpoint, but has the following property. For every computable parametrization f of GAMMA and every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-05-19 Xiaoyang Gu , Jack H. Lutz , Elvira Mayordomo

Aim of this paper is to show that it makes sense to write the continuity equation on a metric measure space $(X,d,m)$ and that absolutely continuous curves $\mu_t$ w.r.t. the distance $W_2$ can be completely characterized as solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Nicola Gigli , Bangxian Han

A new isoperimetric estimate is proved for embedded closed curves evolving by curve shortening flow, normalized to have total length $2\pi$. The estimate bounds the length of any chord from below in terms of the arc length between its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-20 Ben Andrews , Paul Bryan

The 'contracting boundary' of a proper geodesic metric space consists of equivalence classes of geodesic rays that behave like rays in a hyperbolic space. We introduce a geometrically relevant, quasi-isometry invariant topology on the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Christopher H. Cashen , John M. Mackay

An infinite structure has the finite length property (over a given field) if, for each of its finite powers, chains of equivariant subspaces in the corresponding free vector space are bounded in length. Prior work showed that the countable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jingjie Yang , Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Bartek Klin

We find an upper bound for the asymptotic dimension of a hyperbolic metric space with a set of geodesics satisfying a certain boundedness condition studied by Bowditch. The primary example is a collection of tight geodesics on the curve…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Gregory Bell , Koji Fujiwara
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