Given a geodesic metric space X together with a choice of midpoints
m:XtimesXrightarrowX (i.e. d(m(x,y),x)=d(m(x,y),y)=d(x,y)/2).
Assume furthermore, that the following nonpositive curvature condition is satisfied:
d(m(x,y),m(x,z))lefracd(y,z)2 for all x,y,zinX .
This is just a special case of the CAT(0) inequality for the "triangle" x,y,z.
Lets call such a space a M-space.
Such a space needn't be CAT(0), as the example (mathbbRn,d1) shows, where d1 is the l1 metric. The choice of midpoints is given by m(x,y)=fracx+y2. It also needn't be unique geodesic.
But this space can be equipped with another metric, that makes it a CAT(0) space.
So my question is: Is every group, that acts properly, isometrically and cocompactly on a M-space already a CAT(0)-group?
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