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Gluing $CAT(0)$ domains

Differential Geometry 2025-04-07 v1 Geometric Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this work we describe a class of subsets of the Euclidean plane which, with the induced length metric, are locally CAT(0)CAT(0) spaces and we show that the gluing of two such subsets along a piece of their boundary is again a locally CAT(0)CAT(0) space provided that the sum of the signed curvatures at every gluing point is non-positive. A generalization to subsets of smooth Riemannian surfaces of curvature k0k\leq 0 is given.

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@article{arxiv.2504.03356,
  title  = {Gluing $CAT(0)$ domains},
  author = {Charalampos Charitos and Ioannis Papadoperakis and Georgios Tsapogas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.03356},
  year   = {2025}
}

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32 pages, 9 figures

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