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Volume 58, Issue 1
Quasi-Convex Subsets and the Farthest Direction in Alexandrov Spaces with Lower Curvature Bound

Xiaole Su, Hongwei Sun & Yusheng Wang

J. Math. Study, 58 (2025), pp. 22-37.

Published online: 2025-03

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Let $F$ be a closed subset in a finite dimensional Alexandrov space $X$ with lower curvature bound. This paper shows that $F$ is quasi-convex if and only if, for any two distinct points $p,r∈F,$ if there is a direction at $p$ which is more than $\frac{π}{2}$ away from $⇑^r_p$ (the set of all directions from $p$ to $r$), then the farthest direction to $⇑^r_p$ at $p$ is tangent to $F.$ This implies that $F$ is quasi-convex if and only if the gradient curve starting from $r$ of the distance function to $p$ lies in $F.$ As an application, we obtain that the fixed point set of an isometry on $X$ is quasi-convex.

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53C20, 51F99

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@Article{JMS-58-22, author = {Su , XiaoleSun , Hongwei and Wang , Yusheng}, title = {Quasi-Convex Subsets and the Farthest Direction in Alexandrov Spaces with Lower Curvature Bound}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Study}, year = {2025}, volume = {58}, number = {1}, pages = {22--37}, abstract = {

Let $F$ be a closed subset in a finite dimensional Alexandrov space $X$ with lower curvature bound. This paper shows that $F$ is quasi-convex if and only if, for any two distinct points $p,r∈F,$ if there is a direction at $p$ which is more than $\frac{π}{2}$ away from $⇑^r_p$ (the set of all directions from $p$ to $r$), then the farthest direction to $⇑^r_p$ at $p$ is tangent to $F.$ This implies that $F$ is quasi-convex if and only if the gradient curve starting from $r$ of the distance function to $p$ lies in $F.$ As an application, we obtain that the fixed point set of an isometry on $X$ is quasi-convex.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Quasi-Convex Subsets and the Farthest Direction in Alexandrov Spaces with Lower Curvature Bound AU - Su , Xiaole AU - Sun , Hongwei AU - Wang , Yusheng JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 1 SP - 22 EP - 37 PY - 2025 DA - 2025/03 SN - 58 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v58n1.25.02 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/23936.html KW - Quasi-convex subset, Alexandrov space, extremal subset, gradient curve. AB -

Let $F$ be a closed subset in a finite dimensional Alexandrov space $X$ with lower curvature bound. This paper shows that $F$ is quasi-convex if and only if, for any two distinct points $p,r∈F,$ if there is a direction at $p$ which is more than $\frac{π}{2}$ away from $⇑^r_p$ (the set of all directions from $p$ to $r$), then the farthest direction to $⇑^r_p$ at $p$ is tangent to $F.$ This implies that $F$ is quasi-convex if and only if the gradient curve starting from $r$ of the distance function to $p$ lies in $F.$ As an application, we obtain that the fixed point set of an isometry on $X$ is quasi-convex.

Su , XiaoleSun , Hongwei and Wang , Yusheng. (2025). Quasi-Convex Subsets and the Farthest Direction in Alexandrov Spaces with Lower Curvature Bound. Journal of Mathematical Study. 58 (1). 22-37. doi:10.4208/jms.v58n1.25.02
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