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Contractibility of the space of $\varepsilon$-nets in $\mathbb{R}$

Metric Geometry 2026-05-20 v1

Abstract

In this note, we show that the space of all ε\varepsilon-nets in the real line R\mathbb{R} with a natural metric, equipped with either Hausdorff or Gromov--Hausdorff distance, is contractible.

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@article{arxiv.2605.19680,
  title  = {Contractibility of the space of $\varepsilon$-nets in $\mathbb{R}$},
  author = {Ivan N. Mikhailov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19680},
  year   = {2026}
}

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