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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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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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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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When can a compact metric space be covered by finitely many nearly-disjoint closed and convex sets?
This question is a follow-up of the following negative question.
Let $(X,d)$ be a (non-empty) compact metric space.
More generally than in the first post, I'll call a set of non-empty subsets $C_1,\...
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