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In this paper, we study the characterizations of a closed curve in a CAT(k) space that bounds a geodesic surface which is isometric to the disk bounded by a circle in the model space \(S_k\) with same perimeter.
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Sama-Ae, A., Phon-on, A. Total curvature and some characterizations of closed curves in CATk spaces. Geom Dedicata 199, 281–290 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-018-0349-y
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