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Bi-Lipschitz geometry of quasiconformal trees

Metric Geometry 2022-03-10 v3

Abstract

A quasiconformal tree is a doubling metric tree in which the diameter of each arc is bounded above by a fixed multiple of the distance between its endpoints. We study the geometry of these trees in two directions. First, we construct a catalog of metric trees in a purely combinatorial way, and show that every quasiconformal tree is bi-Lipschitz equivalent to one of the trees in our catalog. This is inspired by results of Herron-Meyer and Rohde for quasi-arcs. Second, we show that a quasiconformal tree bi-Lipschitz embeds in a Euclidean space if and only if its set of leaves admits such an embedding. In particular, all quasi-arcs bi-Lipschitz embed into some Euclidean space.

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@article{arxiv.2007.12297,
  title  = {Bi-Lipschitz geometry of quasiconformal trees},
  author = {Guy C. David and Vyron Vellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12297},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

40 pages. Added sections containing examples (Section 6) and a new result on spaces more general than trees (Section 7). Minor errors corrected and various clarifications added