Discrete length-volume inequalities and lower volume bounds in metric spaces
Discrete length-volume inequalities and lower volume bounds in metric spaces
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度量空间中的离散长度-体积不等式和体积下界
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2014
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K. Kinneberg
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K. Kinneberg
A theorem of W. Derrick ensures that the volume of any Riemannian cube $$([0,1]^n,g)$$([0,1]n,g) is bounded below by the product of the distances between opposite codimension-1 faces. In this paper, we establish a discrete analog of Derrick’s inequality for weighted open covers of the cube $$[0,1]^n$$[0,1]n, which is motivated by a question about lower volume bounds in metric spaces. Our main theorem generalizes a previous result of the author in Kinneberg (J Differ Geom 100(2):349–388, 2015) which gave a combinatorial version of Derrick’s inequality and was used in the analysis of boundaries of hyperbolic groups. As an application, we answer a question of Y. Burago and V. Zalgaller about length-volume inequalities for pseudometrics on the unit cube.