Is a uniquely geodesic space, contractible ?
With the extra assumption that closed metric balls are compact, there is an answer here.
We expect here an answer beyond this extra assumption (justifying functional-analysis).
2026-03-28 19:29:05.1774726145
Is a uniquely geodesic space contractible? II
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