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Metric for measuring linearity of finite set of points in $R^2$
Suppose one has $n > 2$ points in $R^2$, and one wants to measure "how linear" they are.
I want a metric such that (a) if all the points are in fact on the same line, the metric gives 1, (...
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Inner regularity property of covering number of metric spaces
Let $(X,d)$ be a complete metric space and $n\in\mathbb N$. Suppose that every finite subset $F\subset X$ can be covered by $n$ closed balls of $X$ (that is, $N(Y,d,1)\le n$, in terms of covering ...
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Can you always extend an isometry of a subset of a Hilbert Space to the whole space?
I remember that I read somewhere that the following theorem is true:
Let $A\subseteq H$ be a subset of a real Hilbert space $H$ and let $f : A \to A$ be a distance-preserving bijection, i.e. a ...
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Obtaining the geodesic extension property by embedding in a larger space
Suppose $(X,d)$ is a Hadamard space. By considering basic examples like a compact interval in $\mathbb{R}$ or a closed unit ball in Hilbert space, $X$ need not have the geodesic extension property (...
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Do the $\ell^{\infty}$ and $\ell^1$ norms yield minimal doubling constants amongst all norms on $\mathbb{R}^n$?
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Let $X:=\mathbb{R}^n$ for some positive integer $n$. For each $1\le p\le \infty$ let $d_p$ denote the metric induced by the $\ell^p_n$ norm thereon.
Note that, the doubling constant of a ...
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Properties of doubling metric spaces
At present I work with tools that involves doubling metric space, my definition of DME is:
A metric space $X$ is called doubling with constant $N$, where $N \geq 1$ is an integer, if, for each ball $...
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What happens if you strip everything but the “between” relation in metric spaces
Given a metric space $(X,d)$ and three points $x,y,z$ in $X$, say that $y$ is between $x$ and $z$ if $d(x,z) = d(x,y) + d(y,z)$, and write $[x,z]$ for the set of points between $x$ and $z$.
Obviously,...
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Interpretation and validity of modified Heisenberg uncertainty principle in a metric context? [closed]
Considering the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states $\Delta x \cdot \Delta p \geq h$, I've explored a modified version by computing $(\Delta x + 1)(\Delta p + 1) \geq \Delta x \cdot \Delta ...
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Wasserstein space isomorphic to original space?
Is there a complete measurable metric space $(X,d)$ for which its $p$-Wasserstein space $W(X)$ is isometrically isomorphic to $(X,d)$ for some $p \in [1,\infty]$?
Note that there is a canonical non-...
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Equivalent definition for Skorokhod metric
I have a question about the Skorokod distance on the space $\mathcal{D}([0,1],\mathbb{R})$:
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d(X,Y):= \inf_{\lambda \in \Lambda}\left( \sup_{t\in [0,1]}|t-\lambda(t)|\vee \sup_{t\in [0,1]}|X(t)-Y(\...
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When is a distance space dominated by a metric space?
A distance space is a pair $(X,d)$ where $X$ is a set and $d:X \times X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a symmetric, non-negative map such that $d(x,x)=0$ for all $x \in X$. These are sometimes called semi-...
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Genaralizing the metric expression present in the quadrilateral inequality
Let $(X, d)$ be a metric space. In Sato - An alternative proof of Berg and Nikolaev’s characterization of CAT(0)-spaces via quadrilateral inequality it is stated that if $X$ is a geodesic space, then ...
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Kähler metric on the projective space
"Is there a Kähler metric on the complex projective space $\mathbb {P} ^n(\mathbb {C} ) $ different from the Fubini-Study metric?
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A property for maps between metric spaces
Let $X, Y$ be metric spaces with distance functions denoted by $d_X, d_Y$ respectively. Consider a map $f \colon X \rightarrow Y$. I am interested in the following property: for every $x,y,z \in X$, ...
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Divergence functions in hyperbolic groups
Gromov hyperbolicity has many characterizations, one of them being the existence of a super-linear divergence function, see definition below.
We note that in $\mathbb{R}^2$ there is no divergence ...
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Bi-Lipschitz embeddings of compact doubling spaces
Suppose that $(X,\rho)$ is a compact doubling metric space. Does there necessarily exist an $\epsilon>0$ and a maximal $\epsilon$-net $\{x_i\}_{i=1}^n\subseteq X$ such that the map
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Do Gromov hyperbolic spaces admit concical geodesic bicombings?
Consider a metric space $(X,d)$ with a distinguished selection of geodesics, i.e. a geodesic bicombing $\sigma:X\times X\times [0,1]\rightarrow X$. We call a geodesic bicombing conical if it ...
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Defining area / n-volume of a finite metric space
Let $(X, d)$ be a finite metric space. I've seen several answers to the question when can $X$ be isometrically embedded into Euclidean space (or, more generally, Riemannian manifold). I'm interested ...
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Are two metric spaces isometric if they have the same $\varepsilon$-covering and $\varepsilon$-packing numbers for all $\varepsilon>0$?
Let $(X, d)$ be a compact metric space.
We say that $\{x_1, \cdots, x_n\} \subseteq X$ is an $\varepsilon$-covering of $X$ if for any $x \in X$, there exists $i \in \{1, \ldots, n\}$ such that $d(x, ...
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Generalized Triangle Inequality for Snowflakes
Let $p>0$ and consider a metric space $(X,d)$. I have recently come across a problem where the space $(X,d^q)$ provides is natural; where $q>1$. However, the triangle inquality break (i.e. it ...
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When does a metric space have "infinite metric dimension"? (Definition of metric dimension)
Definition 1 A subset $B$ of a metric space $(M,d)$ is called a metric basis for $M$ if and only if $$[\forall b \in B,\,d(x,b)=d(y,b)] \implies x = y \,.$$
Definition 2 A metric space $(M,d)$ has &...
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Are two metric spaces isometric if they have the same $\varepsilon$-covering numbers for all $\varepsilon>0$?
Let $(E, d)$ be a metric space. For $\varepsilon>0$, we define two notions of $\varepsilon$-covering number as follows, i.e.,
$N_\varepsilon^o (E)$ is the smallest number of open balls whose radii ...
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Complexity for determining whether a given metric space is hyperconvex?
Suppose I am given a finite metric space as a distance matrix. What is the complexity of determining whether this metric space is hyperconvex?
Definition: A metric space is said to be hyperconvex if ...
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Is every 1-Lipschitz homeomorphism $f:X\to X$ from a compact metric space to itself an isometry?
I found a statement involving a homeomorphism $f:X\to X$ of a compact metric space $X$, with Lipshitz coefficient 1, i.e., a non-expansive map, and cannot think of an example where $f$ is not an ...
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Does a compact contractible metric space have a point that is fixed by all isometries?
Let $(X,d)$ be a compact and contractible metric space. Let $\operatorname{Isom}(X)=\{\phi\colon X\to X\}$ be its group of isometries.
Question: Is there a point $x\in X$ fixed by all $\phi\in\...
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Do cycle graphs embed isometrically in spheres?
I recently came across, what seems to be a folklore. Namely, that cycle graphs embeds isometrically into spheres $S^n(r)$, for some $n\in \mathbb{N}_+$ and some $r>0$. However, I could not track ...
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Absolute continuity of the volume growth in a metric space
Let $(M,d)$ be a metric space (separable, complete, better?) and let $\mu$ be a ($\sigma$-additive, positive, locally finite, regular?) Borel measure on $M$. For $x\in M$ consider the volume growth ...
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Is this a smooth approximation to the $\ell$-infinity distance actually a quasi-metric?
The $\|\cdot\|_{\infty}$-norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\in \mathbb{Z}^+$ is not a smooth function. However, I came across this post which essentially says that a pointwise approximation to the maximum ...
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Isometric embedding of 4-element metric spaces into Riemannian manifolds and the curvature
I came across this question Preferred embedding of finite metric spaces in riemaniann manifolds of given dimension. In one of the answers it was stated that it is always possible to isometrically ...
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If $X,X'$ have the same $\varepsilon$-packing numbers and $f:X \to X'$ surjective $1$-Lipschitz, then $f$ is an isometry
Let $(X, d)$ be a compact metric space.
We say that $\{x_1, \cdots, x_n\} \subseteq X$ is an $\varepsilon$-covering of $X$ if for any $x \in X$, there exists $i \in \{1, \ldots, n\}$ such that $d(x, ...
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There exists differentiable curves arbitrarily close to the continuous ones
Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold; if $d$ is the distance on $M$, we can consider the distance $D$ between any two continuous curves given by $D(c, \gamma) = \max _{t \in [0,1]} d(c(t), \gamma(t))$.
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Extending a partially defined metric on a metrizable space
Let $X$ be a metrizable topological space, $A\subseteq X\times X$ a nonempty closed subset which is reflexive, symmetric and transitive, $d:A\to \mathbb{R}_+$ a continuous function that satisfies the ...
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m-point-homogeneous, but not (m+1)-point-homogeneous
It is straightforward to check that the discrete cube $Q=\{0,1\}^n$ with $\ell^1$-metric is 3-point-homogeneous, but not 4-point-homogeneous (assuming $n$ is large).
In other words, if $A\subset Q$ ...
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Partitioning a smooth manifold into geodesically convex sets
Let $X$ be a connected and compact $d$-dimensional smooth manifold; where $d$ is a positive integer. Does (or rather, when does) there exist a metric $\rho$ on $X$ generating $X$'s topology and a ...
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Right-continuity of covering number
Consider an ambient metric space $(\mathcal{X},\Vert\cdot\Vert_\infty)$. Let $\mathcal{B}_1 = \mathcal{B}_{\Vert\cdot\Vert_K}(0,1)\subseteq\mathcal{X}$ be the closed unit ball with respect to some ...
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Relationship between doubling constant of a metric space and of a metric measure space
Let $(X,d,m)$ be a metric measure space. We say that it is doubling in the sense of metric spaces if for every:
$x\in X$ and every $r>0$ there exists some (metric) doubling constant $C_d\geq 0$ ...
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Expected doubling constant of a random Erdős–Rényi graph
Consider the $G(n,p)$ random graph model where $n$ is a ``large'' positive integer and $p\in (0,1)$. We may equip every realized random graph $G$ with its shortest path distance, making it into a (...
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Examples of metric spaces with measurable midpoints
Given a (separable complete) metric space $X=(X,d)$, let us say $X$ has the measurable (resp. continuous) midpoint property if there exists a measurable (resp. continuous) mapping $m:X \times X \to X$ ...
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Results in computational geometry utilizing doubling dimension of a metric space
According to Wikipedia,
However, many results from classical harmonic analysis and computational geometry extend to the setting of metric spaces with doubling measures.
My question is: what are some ...
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"Geodesic coherent" partition of a graph
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite undirected graph which we equip with its usual graph geodesic distance $d_G$ making $(G,d_G)$ into a metric space; let $1<\#V<\infty$. For a given $1<N< \#V$ ...
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What properties are preserved by quasi-isometries
Recently, I came across the notion of quasi-isometries, while thinking of "discrete spaces which are surrogates for approximate continuous ones".
What (metric)/geometric properties are ...
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What is the structure preserved by strong equivalence of metrics?
Let $X$ be a set. Then we can define at least three equivalence relations on the set of metrics on $X$. We say that two metrics $d_1$ and $d_2$ are topologically equivalent if the identity maps $i:(...
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Lipschitz-regularity of partition of unity
Let $K$ be a compact subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\mathcal{U}$ be a finite collection of open subsets covering $K$ satisfying the minimality property: for every $U\in \mathcal{U}$, the sub-collection ...
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Lipschitz maps with Hölder inverse preserve the doubling property
Let $K$ be a compact doubling metric space, $X$ be a metric space and $f:K\rightarrow X$ be Lipschitz with $\alpha$-Hölder inverse, where $0<\alpha<1$. Does $f(K)$ need to be doubling?
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Extending a metric in a bi-Lipschitz way
Suppose we are in the following situation: $(X,d)$ is a metric space and $Y$ is a subspace of $X$. Furthermore we have a different metric $\delta$ defined on $Y$ such that $\delta$ is bi Lipschitz ...
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$(1+\epsilon)$-bilipschitz parametrization of Lipschitz manifold
Let $\mathscr{H}^m$ be the $m$ dimensional Hausdorff measure in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $m\leq n$. Is it true that for $\mathscr{H}^m$-almost every point $p$ on a Lipschitz manifold $M$ of dimension $m$ ...
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Covering number estimates for Hölder balls
Let $\alpha \in (0,1]$, $r>0$ and $L>0$, and positive intwgers $n$ and $m$. The Arzela-Ascoli Theorem guarantees that the set $X(\alpha,L,r)$ of $f:[-1,1]^n\rightarrow [-r,r]^m$ with $\alpha$-...
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Uniformly open map on a dense subset
Schauder's lemma asserts that you can always extend a uniformly continuous, uniformly open map from a dense subset of a complete metric space to a uniformly open map on the completion.
I think the ...
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What should a meaningful notion of curvature satisfy, in the absence of a smooth structure?
There are many generalizations of various curvatures to non-smooth metric spaces (e.g. Ollivier's Ricci curvature). Suppose I have a metric space $(X,d)$ and I want to define a notion of curvature ...
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Distance between two points using triangulation
Suppose we have two points $p_1$ and $p_2$ in a metric space with unknown dimensionality, with no way to directly compute the distance between them, e.g. no coordinates.
Say we can randomly sample a ...
