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There is a wide body of work on this in connection with the classic De Bruijn–Erdős theorem.
De Bruijn–Erdős Theorem. Every set of $n$ points in the
plane (not all lying on the same line) determine at least $n$ lines.
There is a beautiful conjecture of Chen and Chvátal that the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem actually holds in every metric space, where lines ...
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I'm reminded of W.A. Coppel's book which looks at these kinds of structures from a slightly different vantage point, namely closure systems. I can't actually find the book right now, but here's a quick synopsis of what's going on.
Given a set $X$ together with an arbitrary function $[\bullet,\bullet] : X^2 \rightarrow \mathcal{P}(X),$ let's call $A \...
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The parametrization for the Klein bottle provided by Will Brian is
\begin{align}
x &= (a+b\cos v)\cos u\\
y &= (a+b\cos v)\sin u\\
z &= (b\sin v)\cos(u/2)\\
t &= (b\sin v)\sin(u/2)\\
\end{align}
where $a>b>0$.
This leads to the defining conditions:
\begin{align}
4a^2(x^2+y^2)&=(a^2-b^2+t^2+x^2+y^2+z^2)^2\\
y(z^2-t^2)&=2txz\\
...
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Permit me to include this nice image from Day & Li
to illustrate @Igor's point that "in general on a surface, it [the cut locus] is a graph not a tree."
The source point $p$ is on the cat's forehead,
the other side in this rear-view.
Dey, Tamal K., and Kuiyu Li. "Cut locus and topology from surface point data." In ...
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This is more of an extended remark than a full answer.
My message is:
The property $[x,x]=\{x\}$ does not necessarily hold, but you can always make it hold by taking a natural quotient.
Your axioms don't imply $[x,x]=\{x\}$, so you have to add it if you want it.
A pseudometric (e.g. a seminorm) will satisfy your axioms, and $[x,x]$ is the set of points ...
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Yes, such examples do live. The following answer was given in "Metric spaces of non-positive curvature" by Bridson and Haefliger; thanks to GGT and Moishe Kohan.
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If embedding means smooth embedding, the non-orientability of the Klein bottle $K$ implies that its stable normal bundle will also not be trivial. This implies that $K$ cannot be smoothly described as the solutions to an equation $f(\bf x)=\bf b$, with $\bf b \in \mathbb R^2$ a regular value of a smooth function $f: \mathbb R^4 \rightarrow \mathbb R^2$, i.e....
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Consider a torus with three handles, where one handle is much larger than the others, and with a smooth and free $\mathbb{Z}_3$ action which permutes the handles.
Let $\gamma$ be a small geodesic loop going through one of the small handles. Let $z\gamma$ be an image of $\gamma$ under the group action which goes through the large handle. Let $p$ be a point ...
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Step by step. First, we have the unit circle in the complex plane:
$$ S\ :=\ \{s\in\Bbb C:\ |s|=1 \} $$
We may even have a larger circle:
$$ C\ :=\ \{5\!\cdot\! s:\ s\in S\} $$
Then, a torus $\ T\ $ is a surface around circle
$\ C\times\{0\}\subseteq \Bbb C\times\Bbb R:$
$$ T\ :=\ \{ ((5+\Re s)\cdot c,\, \Im s)\,:\,\ (c\ s)\in S\times S\}
\quad\...
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This paper https://jeb.biologists.org/content/221/19/jeb178988 contains an experimental investigation of egg rolling. Theoretically, it seems "the relationship of egg shape to egg movement (e.g. rolling) is an understudied topic".
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This is not an answer, just some sketchy thoughts that are too long for the comment box. I and some other HHS enthusiasts are very interested in this question being answered; we've tried a fair bit and have set it aside, so I don't think they'll mind me trying to recall what some of the strategies and issues are.
It's indeed open for cocompact special ...
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The most obvious example:
Suppose $U$ is a closed ball of radius $1$ in $\mathbb R^d$, and $T$ is the corresponding sphere. Then if $r = 1$, $N_r(U) = 1$ but $N_r(T) > 1$.
EDIT:
Let $X$ be any metric space such that there are three points $a,b, c$ with $d(a,b) \le d(a,c) < d(b,c)$. Then take $d(a,c) \le r < d(b,c)$, $T = \{b,c\}$ and $U = \{a,b,...
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I'll discuss separately the question you asked and the exercise in the notes you linked to.
The question you asked is trivial as long as $k\geq3$. Just let $f$ be a projection onto the $3$-dimensional subspace spanned by $x,y,z$. You don't even need $\epsilon$, since $x,y,z$, and the angle are preserved exactly. (In fact, even if $k=2$, you can preserve the ...
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Here's a compact example without boundary (a 2-torus).
Choose a topological disc $D$ on the two-torus $T$, and choose a Riemannian metric so that $D$ has very close Gromov-Hausdorff distance (say $\le 1$) to a segment of length $20$, while $T\smallsetminus D$ has diameter $\le 1$ (so metrically $D$ is predominant, while all the homotopic part lies in $T\...
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Yes, it has to be a subgroup. Fix $v\in M$. We need to prove that $-v\in M$. It is sufficient to find an element of $M$ arbitrarily close to $-v$.
Choose $u_1,\ldots,u_n\in \mathbb{R}^n$ so that $v,u_1,\ldots,u_n$ are the vertices of a regular simplex with center at the origin. Choose large $N$ and consider the points $w_i\in M$ such that $\|Nu_i-w_i\|\...
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Following up on Gerry Myerson's suggestion, the following graph from Ágoston and Pálvölgyi's Improved constant factor for the unit distance
problem may be a counterexample.
This is the $n=13$ example illustrating the maximum number (30) of unit distances among 13 points in the plane. Schade's 1993 thesis establishes that this is the unique maximal "unit ...
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Depends on what you mean by equally spaced.
If you want that all points have pairwise identical distances, then this is not possible. This is only possible for at most $n+1$ points, but not more.
If you want to maximize the minimal distance of $n+2$ points in the $(n-1)$-sphere, you have to pick some of the vertices of the $n$-dimensional crosspolytope, ...
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The $\epsilon$-covering number of the euclidean unit ball in $\mathbb R^d$ scales like $(1/\epsilon)^d$. More formally,
Lemma. If $\epsilon < 1$, then $(1/\epsilon)^d \le N(\epsilon, B_2) \le (3/\epsilon)^d$. Else $N(\epsilon,B_2) = 1$.
Proof. See Theorem 4.2 and Example 14.1 of this manuscript http://www.stat.yale.edu/~yw562/teaching/598/lec14.pdf. $\...
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$\bigg\{ (z_1,z_2)\in \mathbb{C}^2 | |z_1|^2+|z_2|^2=1\bigg\}$ is
3-dimensional sphere $S$. When $ \Sigma =\bigg\{ (z_1,z_2)\in
\mathbb{C}^2 | |z_1| = |z_2| = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \bigg\}$ is a torus in
$S$, then we know that $S$ is a union of two solid torus.
Here $((R+a\cos\ t)\cos\ \theta,(R+a\cos\ t)\sin\ \theta,a\sin\ t)$
is a parametrization for torus $...
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As Benoit mentioned in one of his answers, ultrametric spaces are a class of metric spaces that can be analyzed, and there is a paper recently put on the arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10239, that carefully investigates when ultrametric spaces have finite metric dimension.
It also cites a considerable amount of literature where this concept appears in ...
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