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On diversities and finite dimensional Banach spaces

Metric Geometry 2023-02-14 v3

Abstract

A diversity δ\delta in MM is a function defined over every finite set of points of MM mapped onto [0,)[0,\infty), with the properties that δ(X)=0\delta(X)=0 if and only if X1|X|\leq 1 and δ(XY)δ(XZ)+δ(ZY)\delta(X\cup Y)\leq\delta(X\cup Z)+\delta(Z\cup Y), for every finite sets X,Y,ZMX,Y,Z\subset M with Z1|Z|\geq 1. Its importance relies in the fact that, amongst others, they generalize the notion of metric distance. Our main contribution is the characterization of Banach-embeddable diversities δ\delta defined over MM, M=3|M|=3, i.e. when there exist points piRnp_i\in\mathbb R^n, i=1,2,3i=1,2,3, and a symmetric, convex, and compact set CRnC\subset\mathbb R^n such that δ({xi1,,xim})=R({pi1,,pim},C)\delta(\{x_{i_1},\dots,x_{i_m}\})=R(\{p_{i_1},\dots,p_{i_m}\},C), where R(X,C)R(X,C) denotes the circumradius of XX with respect to CC.

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@article{arxiv.2212.10967,
  title  = {On diversities and finite dimensional Banach spaces},
  author = {Bernardo González Merino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10967},
  year   = {2023}
}
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