Abstract. For a large class of metric spaces with nice local structure, which includes Banach-Finsler manifolds and geodesic spaces of curvature bounded above, we give sufficient conditions for a local homeomorphism to be a covering projection. We first obtain a general condition in terms of a path continuation property. As a consequence, we deduce several conditions in terms of path-liftings involving a generalized derivative, and in particular we obtain an extension of Hadamard global inversion theorem in this context. Next we prove that, in the case of quasi-isometric mappings, some of these sufficient conditions are also necessary. Finally, we give some applications to the existence of global implicit functions.

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Abstract. Since the Hadamard Theorem, several metric and topological conditions have emerged in the literature to date, yielding global inverse theorems for functions in different settings. Relevant examples are the mappings between infinite-dimensional Banach-Finsler manifolds, which are the focus of this work. Emphasis is given to the nonlinear Fredholm operators of nonnegative index between Banach spaces. The results are based on good local behavior of f at every x, namely, f is a local homeomorphism or f is locally equivalent to a projection. The general structure includes a condition that ensures a global property for the fibres of f , ideally expecting to conclude that f is a global diffeomorphism or equivalent to a global projection. A review of these results and some relationships between different criteria are shown. Also, a global version of Graves Theorem is obtained for a suitable submersion f with image in a Banach space: given r > 0 and x 0 in the domain of f we give a radius ̺(r) > 0, closely related to the hypothesis of the Hadamard Theorem, such that B̺(f (x 0 )) ⊂ f (Br (x 0 )).

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