Distortion from spheres into Euclidean spaces
Metric Geometry
2026-05-01 v3 General Topology
Abstract
Any function from a round -dimensional sphere of radius into -dimensional Euclidean space must distort the metric additively by at least if is even and if is odd. This is proved using a fixed-point theorem of Granas that generalizes the classical theorem of Borsuk-Ulam to set-valued functions.
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@article{arxiv.2504.02276,
title = {Distortion from spheres into Euclidean spaces},
author = {James Dibble},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02276},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages; expanded Section 3 to add the details of the proof of Corollary 3.3; corrected "circumcenter'' and "circumradius'' to "Chebyshev center'' and "Chebyshev radius,'' respectively; many other minor corrections and edits