Main metric invariants of finite metric spaces (Q2354933)

Let \({\mathcal K}\) be a set of finite metric spaces of the same cardinality \(N> 1\). Define the functions (over \({\mathcal K}\)), for \(2\leq K< N\), \(1\leq L\leq K-1\) \(D_K(X)=\min\{D(S)\mid S\in X(K)\}\), \(\text{mar}_{LK}(X)=\max\{R_L(S)\mid S\in X(K)\}\), \(\text{mir}_{LK}(X)=\min\{R_L(S)\mid S\in X(K)\}\), \noindent where \(X(K)=\{S\subset X\mid \text{card}(S)=K\}\). The main result in this paper is the following { Theorem.} Let \((K,L)\) be taken as before. Then, the functions \(D_K(.)\), \(\text{mar}_{LK}(.)\), and \(\text{mir}_{LK}(.)\) are main metric invariants. The obtained result is useful for a detailed classification of finite metric spaces.