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Chebyshev centers and radius of the set of permutons

Combinatorics 2026-05-20 v2 Metric Geometry Probability

Abstract

We study the metric geometry of the set of permutons under the rectangular distance dd_{\square}. We determine the Chebyshev radius to be 1/4 and characterize all Chebyshev centers: a permuton is a center if and only if it is 1/2- periodic in each coordinate. We also describe permutons that attain the extremal distance 1/4 from a given center.

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@article{arxiv.2602.02889,
  title  = {Chebyshev centers and radius of the set of permutons},
  author = {Balázs Maga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02889},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure. Section 4 restructured and slightly extended