LAUSR

Abstract We establish existence and uniqueness results for conical geodesic bicombings on subsets of normed vector spaces. Concerning existence, we give a first example of a convex geodesic bicombing that is not consistent. Furthermore, we show that under a mild geometric assumption on the norm a conical geodesic bicombing on an open subset of a normed vector space locally consists of linear geodesics. As an application, we obtain by the use of a Cartan–Hadamard type result that if a closed convex subset of a Banach space has non-empty interior, then it admits a unique consistent conical geodesic bicombing, namely the one given by the linear segments.