# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2010, 17: 122-124. doi: 10.3934/era.2010.17.122

## Curvature bounded below: A definition a la Berg--Nikolaev

 1 St. Petersburg Department of V.A. Steklov Mathematical Institute, Fontanka 27, 191023, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 2 Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States

Received  August 2010 Revised  September 2010 Published  October 2010

We give a new characterization of spaces with nonnegative curvature in the sense of Alexandrov.
Citation: Nina Lebedeva, Anton Petrunin. Curvature bounded below: A definition a la Berg--Nikolaev. Electronic Research Announcements, 2010, 17: 122-124. doi: 10.3934/era.2010.17.122
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