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Differential Geometric Aspects of Alexandrov Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2025

Karsten Grove
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Peter Petersen
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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We summarize the results on the differential geometric structure of Alexandrov spaces developed in [Otsu and Shioya 1994; Otsu 1995; Otsu and Tanoue a]. We discuss Riemannian and second differentiable structure and Jacobi fields on Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded below or above.

THEOREM 1.1 [Reidemeister 1921]. Let f : n → ℝ be a convex function. Then f is a.e. differentiable: more precisely, f is C1 on n \ Sf ⊂ ℝn, and the Hausdorff dimension dim# Sf = dimH SΓ is at most n — 1.

If n = 1, the map given by u → dfu is monotone by convexity and, therefore, dfu is a.e. differentiable, that is, / is a.e. twice differentiable. In general, we have [Busemann and Feller 1935; Alexandrov 1939]:

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Comparison Geometry , pp. 135 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1997

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