Metric cotype
Metric cotype
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DOI:
10.4007/annals.2008.168.247
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2005-06
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M. Mendel;A. Naor
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作者:
M. Mendel;A. Naor
We introduce the notion of metric cotype, a property of metric spaces related to a property of normed spaces, called Rademacher cotype. Apart from settling a long standing open problem in metric geometry, this property is used to prove the following dichotomy: A family of metric spaces F is either almost universal (i.e., contains any finite metric space with any distortion > 1), or there exists α > 0, and arbitrarily large n-point metrics whose distortion when embedded in any member of F is at least Ω((log n)α). The same property is also used to prove strong non-embeddability theorems of Lq into Lp, when q > max{2, p}. Finally we use metric cotype to obtain a new type of isoperimetric inequality on the discrete torus.