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Metric minimizing surfaces revisited

Differential Geometry 2024-04-02 v6 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A surface which does not admit a length nonincreasing deformation is called metric minimizing. We show that metric minimizing surfaces in CAT(0) spaces are locally CAT(0) with respect to their intrinsic metric.

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@article{arxiv.1707.09635,
  title  = {Metric minimizing surfaces revisited},
  author = {Anton Petrunin and Stephan Stadler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.09635},
  year   = {2024}
}
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