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Estimates of Gromov's box distance

Metric Geometry 2007-06-22 v1

Abstract

In 1999, M. Gromov introduced the box distance function \sikaku\sikaku on the space of all mm-spaces. In this paper, by using the method of T. H. Colding (cf. \cite[Lemma 5.10]{Colding}), we estimate \sikaku(Sn,Sm)\sikaku(\mathbb{S}^n,\mathbb{S}^m) and \sikaku(CPn,CPm)\sikaku (\mathbb{C}P^n, \mathbb{C}P^m), where Sn\mathbb{S}^n is the nn-dimensional unit sphere in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} and CPn\mathbb{C}P^n is the nn-dimensional complex projective space equipped with the Fubini-Study metric. In paticular, we give the complete answer to an Exercise of Gromov's Green book (cf. \cite[Section 31/2.183{1/2}.18]{gromov}). We also estimate \sikaku(SO(n),SO(m))\sikaku \big(SO(n), SO(m)\big) from below, where SO(n) is the special orthogonal group.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0706.3086,
  title  = {Estimates of Gromov's box distance},
  author = {Kei Funano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3086},
  year   = {2007}
}
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