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most citedInertial forces and photon surfaces in arbitrary spacetimes

23 citations · 36 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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math.DG2025

Hilbert space factor of metric spaces

Thomas Foertsch, Alexander Lytchak, Elefterios Soultanis

We prove that any complete metric space has a unique decomposition as a direct product of a possibly finite or zero-dimensional Hilbert space and a space that does not split off li…

math.MG2010★ 2 cited

A Möbius Characterization of Metric Spheres

Thomas Foertsch, Viktor Schroeder

In this paper we characterize compact extended Ptolemy metric spaces with many circles up to Möbius equivalence. This characterization yields a Möbius characterization of the -d…

math.MG2008

Group actions on geodesic Ptolemy spaces

Thomas Foertsch, Viktor Schroeder

In this paper we study geodesic Ptolemy metric spaces which allow proper and cocompact isometric actions of crystallographic or, more generally, virtual polycyclic groups. We s…

math.MG2007

Non-positive curvature and the Ptolemy inequality

Thomas Foertsch, Alexander Lytchak, Viktor Schroeder

We provide examples of non-locally compact geodesic Ptolemy metric spaces which are not uniquely geodesic. On the other hand, we show that locally compact, geodesic Ptolemy metric…

math.MG2006

The de Rham decomposition theorem for metric spaces

Thomas Foertsch, Alexander Lytchak

We generalize the classical de Rham decomposition theorem for Riemannian manifolds to the setting of geodesic metric spaces of finite dimension.

math.MG2006★ 4 cited

Hyperbolicity, CAT(-1)-spaces and the Ptolemy Inequality

Thomas Foertsch, Viktor Schroeder

Using a four points inequality for the boundary of CAT(-1)-spaces, we study the relation between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and CAT(-1)-spaces.