Euclidean nets under isometric embeddings
Abstract
Suppose that there exists a discrete subset of a complete, connected, -dimensional Riemannian manifold such that the Riemannian distances between points of correspond to the Euclidean distances of a net in . What can then be derived about the geometry of ? In arXiv:2004.08621 it was shown that if then is isometric to . In this paper we show two consequential geometric properties that the manifold shares with the Euclidean space in any dimension. The first property is that is a net with respect to the Riemannian distance in . The second property is that all geodesics in are distance minimizing, and there are no conjugate points in . This demonstrates the possibility of inferring infinitesimal qualities from discrete data, even in higher dimensions. As a corollary we obtain that the large-scale geometry of is asymptotically Euclidean.
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@article{arxiv.2305.19415,
title = {Euclidean nets under isometric embeddings},
author = {Matan Eilat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19415},
year = {2025}
}
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20 pages