Self-contracted curves have finite length
Metric Geometry
2017-07-18 v1
Abstract
A curve : in a metric space equipped with the distance , where is a (possibly unbounded) interval, is called self-contracted, if for any triple of instances of time with one has . We prove that if is a finite-dimensional normed space with an arbitrary norm, the trace of is bounded, then has finite length, i.e. is rectifiable, thus answering positively the question raised in~\cite{Lemenant16sc-rectif}.
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@article{arxiv.1707.04922,
title = {Self-contracted curves have finite length},
author = {Eugene Stepanov and Yana Teplitskaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04922},
year = {2017}
}
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27 pages