Differentiation in metric spaces

Lytchak, A.

doi:10.1090/S1061-0022-05-00888-5

Differentiation in metric spaces
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by A. Lytchak

St. Petersburg Math. J. 16 (2005), 1017-1041

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1061-0022-05-00888-5

Published electronically: November 22, 2005

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Abstract:

Differentiation of Lipschitz maps between abstract metric spaces is discussed. Differentiability of isometries, first variation formula, and Rademacher-type theorems are studied.

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