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Tangent spaces and Gromov-Hausdorff limits of subanalytic spaces

  • Andreas Bernig EMAIL logo and Alexander Lytchak
Published/Copyright: August 1, 2007
Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
From the journal Volume 2007 Issue 608

Abstract

It is shown that the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of a subanalytic 1-parameter family of compact connected sets (endowed with the inner metric) exists. If the family is semialgebraic, then the limit space can be identified with a semialgebraic set over some real closed field. Different notions of tangent cones (pointed Gromov-Hausdorff limits, blow-ups and Alexandrov cones) for a closed connected subanalytic set are studied and shown to be naturally equivalent. It is shown that geodesics have well-defined Euclidean directions at each point.

Received: 2004-03-03
Published Online: 2007-08-01
Published in Print: 2007-07-27

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