Properties of Distance Functions on Convex Surfaces and Alexandrov Spaces
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چکیده
If X is a convex surface in a Euclidean space, then the squared (intrinsic) distance function dist(x, y) is d.c. (DC, delta-convex) on X×X in the only natural extrinsic sense. For the proof we use semiconcavity (in an intrinsic sense) of dist(x, y) on X × X if X is an Alexandrov space with nonnegative curvature. Applications concerning r-boundaries (distance spheres) and the ambiguous locus (exoskeleton) of a closed subset of a convex surface are given.
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