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Sums of Distances on Graphs and Embeddings into Euclidean Space

Combinatorics 2022-05-06 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a finite, connected graph. We consider a greedy selection of vertices: given a list of vertices x1,,xkx_1, \dots, x_k, take xk+1x_{k+1} to be any vertex maximizing the sum of distances to the existing vertices and iterate: we keep adding the `most remote' vertex. The frequency with which the vertices of the graph appear in this sequence converges to a set of probability measures with nice properties. The support of these measures is, generically, given by a rather small number of vertices mVm \ll |V|. We prove that this suggests that the graph GG is at most 'mm-dimensional' by exhibiting an explicit 11-Lipschitz embedding ϕ:G1(Rm)\phi: G \rightarrow \ell^1(\mathbb{R}^m) with good properties.

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@article{arxiv.2204.13278,
  title  = {Sums of Distances on Graphs and Embeddings into Euclidean Space},
  author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13278},
  year   = {2022}
}