RESEARCH ARTICLE

Radius of locally convex subsets in Alexandrov spaces with curvature≥1 and radius>π/2

  • Yusheng WANG , 1 ,
  • Zhongyang SUN 2
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  • 1. School of Mathematical Sciences (and the Key Laboratory on Mathematics and Complex System), Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • 2. Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Received date: 15 Aug 2013

Accepted date: 27 Oct 2013

Published date: 01 Apr 2014

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Let X be a complete Alexandrov space with curvature≥1 and radius>π/2. We prove that any connected, complete, and locally convex subset without boundary in X also has the radius>π/2.

Cite this article

Yusheng WANG , Zhongyang SUN . Radius of locally convex subsets in Alexandrov spaces with curvature≥1 and radius>π/2[J]. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2014 , 9(2) : 417 -423 . DOI: 10.1007/s11464-013-0341-7

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