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Note on intrinsic metrics on graphs

Functional Analysis 2023-08-25 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study the set of intrinsic metrics on a given graph. This is a convex compact set and it carries a natural order. We investigate existence of largest elements with respect to this order. We show that the only locally finite graphs which admit a largest intrinsic metric are certain finite star graphs. In particular all infinite locally finite graphs do not admit a largest intrinsic metric. Moreover, we give a characterization for the existence of intrinsic metrics with finite balls for weakly spherically symmetric graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2308.12665,
  title  = {Note on intrinsic metrics on graphs},
  author = {Daniel Lenz and Marcel Schmidt and Felix Seifert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12665},
  year   = {2023}
}
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