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Isometric embedding of Busemann surfaces into $L_1$

Computational Geometry 2022-03-03 v1 Discrete Mathematics Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that any non-positively curved 2-dimensional surface (alias, Busemann surface) is isometrically embeddable into L1L_1. As a corollary, we obtain that all planar graphs which are 1-skeletons of planar non-positively curved complexes with regular Euclidean polygons as cells are L1L_1-embeddable with distortion at most 2+π/2<42+\pi/2<4. Our results significantly improve and simplify the results of the recent paper {\it A. Sidiropoulos, Non-positive curvature, and the planar embedding conjecture, FOCS 2013.}}

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@article{arxiv.1308.3181,
  title  = {Isometric embedding of Busemann surfaces into $L_1$},
  author = {Jérémie Chalopin and Victor Chepoi and Guyslain Naves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3181},
  year   = {2022}
}