A lower bound on the distortion of embedding planar metrics into euclidean space

Ilan Newman; Yuri Rabinovich

doi:10.1007/s00454-002-2813-5

A lower bound on the distortion of embedding planar metrics into euclidean space

Ilan Newman, Yuri Rabinovich

Department of Computer Science

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We exhibit a simple infinite family of series-parallel graphs that cannot be metrically embedded into Euclidean space with distortion smaller than Ω(√log n). This matches Rao's [14] general upper bound for metric embedding of planar graphs into Euclidean space, thus resolving the question how well do planar metrics embed in Euclidean spaces?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-81
Number of pages	5
Journal	Discrete and Computational Geometry
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-002-2813-5
State	Published - Jan 2003

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Theoretical Computer Science
Geometry and Topology
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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