Quantitative upper bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres

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Main Authors: Harrison, Michael, Jeffs, R. Amzi
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Published: 2023
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author Harrison, Michael
Jeffs, R. Amzi
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Jeffs, R. Amzi
contents The Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric spaces measures how far the spaces are from being isometric. It has played an important and longstanding role in geometry and shape comparison. More recently, it has been discovered that the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between unit spheres equipped with the geodesic metric has important connections to Borsuk-Ulam theorems and Vietoris-Rips complexes. We develop a discrete framework for obtaining upper bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres, and provide the first quantitative bounds that apply to spheres of all possible pairs of dimensions. As a special case, we determine the exact Gromov-Hausdorff distance between the circle and any higher-dimensional sphere, and determine the precise asymptotic behavior of the distance from the 2-sphere to the $k$-sphere up to constants.
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spellingShingle Quantitative upper bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres
Harrison, Michael
Jeffs, R. Amzi
Metric Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Combinatorics
51F30, 53C23, 52C17
The Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric spaces measures how far the spaces are from being isometric. It has played an important and longstanding role in geometry and shape comparison. More recently, it has been discovered that the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between unit spheres equipped with the geodesic metric has important connections to Borsuk-Ulam theorems and Vietoris-Rips complexes. We develop a discrete framework for obtaining upper bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres, and provide the first quantitative bounds that apply to spheres of all possible pairs of dimensions. As a special case, we determine the exact Gromov-Hausdorff distance between the circle and any higher-dimensional sphere, and determine the precise asymptotic behavior of the distance from the 2-sphere to the $k$-sphere up to constants.
title Quantitative upper bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between spheres
topic Metric Geometry
Algebraic Topology
Combinatorics
51F30, 53C23, 52C17
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11237