In the existing language for tensor calculus on RCD spaces, tensor fields are only defined m-a.e.. In this paper we introduce the concept of tensor field defined '2-capacity-a.e.' and discuss in which sense Sobolev vector fields have a 2-capacity-a.e. uniquely defined quasicontinuous representative.

We prove a compactness theorem for metrics with Bounded Integral Curvature on a fixed closed surface Σ. As a corollary, we obtain a compactification of the space of Riemannian metrics with conical singularities, where an accumulation of singularities is allowed.

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We define a distance on the space of convex bodies in the n-dimensional Euclidean space, up to translations and homotheties, which makes it isometric to a convex subset of the infinite dimensional hyperbolic space. The ambient Lorentzian structure is an extension of the intrinsic area form of convex bodies.We deduce that the space of shapes of convex bodies (i.e. convex bodies up to similarities) has a proper distance with curvature bounded from below by −1. In dimension 3, this space naturally identifies with the space of distances with non-negative curvature on the 2-sphere.

We use the intrinsic area to define a distance on the space of homothety classes of convex bodies in the n-dimensional Euclidean space, which makes it isometric to a convex subset of the infinite dimensional hyperbolic space. The ambient Lorentzian structure is an extension of the intrinsic area form of convex bodies, and Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality is interpreted as the Lorentzian reversed Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. We deduce that the space of similarity classes of convex bodies has a proper geodesic distance with curvature bounded from below by 1 (in the sense of Alexandrov). In dimension 3, this space is homeomorphic to the space of distances with non-negative curvature on the 2-sphere, and this latter space contains the space of flat metrics on the 2-sphere considered by W. P. Thurston. Both Thurston's and the area distances rely on the area form. So the latter may be considered as a generalization of the "real part" of Thurston's construction.