hyperconvex

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adjective

Of a metric space: injective.

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Meanings

adjectivehyperconvex (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsOf a metric space: injective.

    Furthermore, we deduce a local to global theorem for injective (or hyperconvex) metric spaces, saying that under certain conditions a complete, simply-connected, locally injective metric space is injective.

    2015, Benjamin Miesch, “The Cartan-Hadamard Theorem for Metric Spaces with Local Bicombings”, in arXiv

Origin

From hyper- + convex.

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