The Hermite–Hadamard inequality for convex functions on a global NPC space

Abstract

We prove an extension of Choquet's theorem to the framework of compact metric spaces with a global nonpositive curvature. Together with Sturm's extension [K.T. Sturm, Probability measures on metric spaces of nonpositive curvature, in: Pascal Auscher, et al. (Eds.), Heat Kernels and Analysis on Manifolds, Graphs, and Metric Spaces, Lecture Notes from a Quarter Program on Heat Kernels, Random Walks, and Analysis on Manifolds and Graphs April 16–July 13, 2002, Paris, France, in: Contemp. Math., vol. 338, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2003, pp. 357–390] of Jensen's inequality, this provides a full analogue of the Hermite–Hadamard inequality for the convex functions defined on such spaces.