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Euclidean, hyperbolic, discrete, convex, coarse geometry, metric spaces, comparisons in Riemannian geometry, symmetric spaces.

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Distance function to a submanifold

I'm posting this sketch just for the sake of completeness. This question was already marked as answered by Anton. But I thought of this, more geometrical, argument after the discussion that answered t …
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Distance function to a submanifold

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and $\Sigma\subset M$ a closed submanifold. Given $x\in M$ we define the distance function to $\Sigma$ by $$d_\Sigma(x):=\inf\{d(x,y):y\in \Sigma\},$$ where $d …
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