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SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE NATURE OF THE DISTANCE FUNCTION ON THE CUT LOCUS IN A RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1997

DENNIS BARDEN  and
HUILING LE
DENNIS BARDEN
Affiliation:
Girton College, Cambridge CB3 0JG
HUILING LE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
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Abstract

We render the cut locus more accessible to analysis by showing that each non-conjugate cut point has a neighbourhood on which the distance function is the minimum of finitely many smooth ‘radial functions’. This enables us to generalise to an arbitrary complete manifold a number of recent results, mainly from stochastic analysis, which were either limited or not valid on the cut locus because of the lack of differentiability there of the distance function.

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Journal of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 369 - 383
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The London Mathematical Society 1997

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