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Burago, Yuri; Gromov, Mikhail Leonidovich; Perelman, Grigori (1992). "A.D. Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below".
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is either a non-negative integer or infinite. One can define a notion of "angle" and "tangent cone" in these spaces.
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Aleksandrov, A D; Berestovskii, V N; Nikolaev, I G (1986-01-01). "Generalized Riemannian spaces".
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in the space to geodesic triangles in standard constant-curvature Riemannian surfaces.
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where the lower curvature bound is defined via comparison of
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in 1992 and were later used in Perelman's proof of the
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is some real number. By definition, these spaces are
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An Introduction to the Geometry of Alexandrov Spaces
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geometry
Riemannian manifolds
sectional curvature
locally compact
complete
length spaces
geodesic triangles
Hausdorff dimension
Gromov-Hausdorff metric
Gromov's compactness theorem
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
Alexandrov-discrete spaces
Pavel Alexandrov
Burago
Gromov
Perelman
Poincaré conjecture


An Introduction to the Geometry of Alexandrov Spaces
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10.1070/rm1986v041n03abeh003311
ISSN
0036-0279


doi
10.1070/RM1992v047n02ABEH000877
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