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Metric Graph Approximations of Geodesic Spaces

Metric Geometry 2023-10-27 v5

Abstract

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions to a point provide optimal approximation in the Gromov-Hausdsorff sense.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05566,
  title  = {Metric Graph Approximations of Geodesic Spaces},
  author = {Facundo Memoli and Osman Berat Okutan and Qingsong Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05566},
  year   = {2023}
}

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