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Metric differentiation, monotonicity and maps to L^1

Metric Geometry 2015-05-13 v2 Differential Geometry Functional Analysis Group Theory

Abstract

We give a new approach to the infinitesimal structure of Lipschitz maps into L^1. As a first application, we give an alternative proof of the main theorem from an earlier paper, that the Heisenberg group does not admit a bi-Lipschitz embedding in L^1. The proof uses the metric differentiation theorem of Pauls and the cut metric decomposition to reduce the nonembedding argument to a classification of monotone subsets of the Heisenberg group.

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@article{arxiv.0907.3295,
  title  = {Metric differentiation, monotonicity and maps to L^1},
  author = {Jeff Cheeger and Bruce Kleiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3295},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Added a missing condition to Definition 5.3. Also made a number of minor corrections, and added a reference to a paper by Lee-Raghavendra