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Anton Petrunin
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There are such examples already in Riemannian world! In fact, in any generic Riemannian manifold of dimension $\ge3$ then convex hull 3 points in general position is not closed. BUT it is hard to make explicit and generic at the same time :)

To see it do the following exercise first: Show that in generic 3-dimensional manifold, arbitrary smooth convex surface contains no geodesic. (Here geodesic = geodesic in ambient space.)

To make word "generic" more clear: show that any metric admits $C^\infty$-perturbation such that above property holds.

Hint: Use Jacobi fields to show the following: If geodesic $\gamma$ lies in a convex surface then curvature tensor along $\gamma$ is very special.

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