Characterizations of Metric Trees and Gromov Hyperbolic Spaces

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  • STEFAN WENGER
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A. In this note we give new characterizations of metric trees and Gromov hyperbolic spaces and generalize recent results of Chatterji and Niblo. Our results have a purely metric character, however, their proofs involve two classical tools from analysis: Stokes’ formula in R2 and a Rademacher type differentiation theorem for Lipschitz maps. This analytic approach can be used to give characterizations of Gromov hyperbolicity via isoperimetric inequalities with optimal constants.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007