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Trees and Markov convexity (2007)

Abstract
We show that an infinite weighted tree admits a bi-Lipschitz embedding into Hilbert space if and only if it does not contain arbitrarily large complete binary trees with uniformly bounded distortion. We also introduce a new metric invariant called Markov convexity, and show how it can be used to compute the Euclidean distortion of any metric tree up to universal factors.

Publication details
Download http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0545
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Mathematics - Metric Geometry, Mathematics - Functional Analysis
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