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Euclidean nets under isometric embeddings

Metric Geometry 2025-06-04 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Suppose that there exists a discrete subset XX of a complete, connected, nn-dimensional Riemannian manifold MM such that the Riemannian distances between points of XX correspond to the Euclidean distances of a net in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}. What can then be derived about the geometry of MM? In arXiv:2004.08621 it was shown that if n=2n=2 then MM is isometric to R2\mathbb{R}^{2}. In this paper we show two consequential geometric properties that the manifold MM shares with the Euclidean space in any dimension. The first property is that XX is a net with respect to the Riemannian distance in MM. The second property is that all geodesics in MM are distance minimizing, and there are no conjugate points in MM. This demonstrates the possibility of inferring infinitesimal qualities from discrete data, even in higher dimensions. As a corollary we obtain that the large-scale geometry of MM is asymptotically Euclidean.

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@article{arxiv.2305.19415,
  title  = {Euclidean nets under isometric embeddings},
  author = {Matan Eilat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19415},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages

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