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# The Abresch-Gromoll inequality in a non-smooth setting

• We prove that the Abresch-Gromoll inequality holds on infinitesimally Hilbertian $CD(K,N)$ spaces in the same form as the one available on smooth Riemannian manifolds.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 51Fxx; Secondary: 53C21.

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