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6.2.2 Uncountable many geodesicsUnfortunately d H is quite “unsmooth”. There are choices <strong>of</strong> A, B compact thatmay be jo<strong>in</strong>ed by an uncountable number <strong>of</strong> geodesics. In fact we can considerthis simple example.Example 6.14 (Duci <strong>and</strong> Mennucci [15]) Let us setA = {x = 0, 0 ≤ y ≤ 2}B = {x = 2, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1}C t = { x = 1, 0 ≤ y ≤ 2} 3 ∪ {y = 0, 1 ≤ x ≤ t}ACtBwith 1 ≤ t ≤ √ 5/2;<strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> the picture we represent (dashed) the fattened sets A + D √ 5/2 <strong>and</strong>B + D √ 5/2 . Note that d H(A, B) = √ 5 while d H (A, C t ) = d H (B, C t ) = √ 5/2:so C t are all midpo<strong>in</strong>ts that are on different geodesics between A <strong>and</strong> B.6.2.3 Curves <strong>and</strong> connected setsLet aga<strong>in</strong> Ξ be the collection <strong>of</strong> all compact subsets <strong>of</strong> lR N . Let Ξ c be thesubclass <strong>of</strong> compact connected subsets <strong>of</strong> lR N . We now relate the space <strong>of</strong> <strong>curves</strong>to this metric space, by list<strong>in</strong>g these properties <strong>and</strong> remarks.• Ξ c is a closed subset <strong>of</strong> (Ξ, d H );• Ξ c is the closure <strong>in</strong> (Ξ, d H ) <strong>of</strong> the class <strong>of</strong> (images <strong>of</strong>) all embedded <strong>curves</strong>.• Ξ c is Lipschitz-path-connected 8 ;• for all above reasons, it is possible to connect any two A, B ∈ Ξ c by am<strong>in</strong>imal geodesic mov<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Ξ c .• So, if we try to f<strong>in</strong>d a m<strong>in</strong>imal geodesic connect<strong>in</strong>g two <strong>curves</strong> us<strong>in</strong>g themetric d H , we will end up f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g a geodesic <strong>in</strong> (Ξ c , d H ); <strong>and</strong> similarly ifwe try to optimize an energy def<strong>in</strong>ed on <strong>curves</strong>.• But note that Ξ c is not geodesically convex <strong>in</strong> Ξ, that is, there exist twopo<strong>in</strong>ts A, B ∈ Ξ c <strong>and</strong> a m<strong>in</strong>imal geodesics ξ connect<strong>in</strong>g A to B <strong>in</strong> themetric space (Ξ, d), such that the image <strong>of</strong> ξ is not conta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong>side Ξ c .• We don’t know if (Ξ c , d H ) is path-metric.8 That is, any A, B ∈ Ξ c can be connected by a Lipschitz arc γ : [0, 1] → Ξ c45

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