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Isometric embeddings of snowflakes into finite-dimensional Banach spaces

Metric Geometry 2016-09-13 v1

Abstract

We consider a general notion of snowflake of a metric space by composing the distance by a nontrivial concave function. We prove that a snowflake of a metric space XX isometrically embeds into some finite-dimensional normed space if and only if XX is finite. In the case of power functions we give a uniform bound on the cardinality of XX depending only on the power exponent and the dimension of the vector space.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03377,
  title  = {Isometric embeddings of snowflakes into finite-dimensional Banach spaces},
  author = {Enrico Le Donne and Tapio Rajala and Erik Walsberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03377},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages