A metric characterization of snowflakes of Euclidean spaces

A Metric Characterization of Snowflakes of Euclidean Spaces

We give a metric characterization of snowflakes of Euclidean spaces. Namely, a metric space is isometric to Rn equipped with a distance (dE) , for some n ∈ N0 and ∈ (0, 1], where dE is the Euclidean distance, if and only if it is locally compact, 2-point isometrically homogeneous, and admits dilations of any factor.

A Characterization of Euclidean Spaces

The purpose of this paper is to give an elementary proof of the fact that a Banach space in which there exist projection transformations of norm one on every two-dimensional linear subspace is a euclidean space. S. Kakutani [ l ] has pointed out that a modification of a proof due to Blaschke [2] will prove this theorem. F. Bohnenblust has been able to establish this theorem for the complex case...

Euclidean Quotients of Finite Metric Spaces

This paper is devoted to the study of quotients of finite metric spaces. The basic type of question we ask is: Given a finite metric space M and α ≥ 1, what is the largest quotient of (a subset of) M which well embeds into Hilbert space. We obtain asymptotically tight bounds for these questions, and prove that they exhibit phase transitions. We also study the analogous problem for embedings int...

Bilipschitz Embeddings of Metric Spaces into Euclidean Spaces

When does a metric space admit a bilipschitz embedding into some finite-dimensional Euclidean space? There does not seem to be a simple answer to this question. Results of Assouad [A1], [A2], [A3] do provide a simple answer if one permits some small (“snowflake”) deformations of the metric, but unfortunately these deformations immediately disrupt some basic aspects of geometry and analysis, lik...

A Characterization of Locally Euclidean Spaces