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Explicit Geodesics in Gromov-Hausdorff Space

Metric Geometry 2018-03-21 v4

Abstract

We provide an alternative, constructive proof that the collection M\mathcal{M} of isometry classes of compact metric spaces endowed with the Gromov-Hausdorff distance is a geodesic space. The core of our proof is a construction of explicit geodesics on M\mathcal{M}. We also provide several interesting examples of geodesics on M\mathcal{M}, including a geodesic between S0\mathbb{S}^0 and Sn\mathbb{S}^n for any n1n\geq 1.

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@article{arxiv.1603.02385,
  title  = {Explicit Geodesics in Gromov-Hausdorff Space},
  author = {Samir Chowdhury and Facundo Mémoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02385},
  year   = {2018}
}
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