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In this chapter we concentrate mainly on CAT(0) spaces, establishing basic properties that we shall appeal to repeatedly in subsequent chapters. We shall also describe the extent to which each of the results presented can be extended to the case of CAT(κ) spaces with κ > 0.
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Bridson, M.R., Haefliger, A. (1999). Convexity and its Consequences. In: Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12494-9_10
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